Urban Creativity Seminar

Description

Grafitti Between Drawing and Writing. Reflecting on an Atlas of Athenian Inscriptions.

Open seminar with Konstantinos Avramidis, Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Portsmouth, on the critical exchange between architecture and graffiti. The seminar focused on a designed book object which promotes a new situating of Athenian inscriptions that allows us to make sense of, navigate in and reconstruct the Athenian graffiti landscape through characteristic surfaces.

Presented as an atlas, a book of drawings of writings and writings on drawings, it offers a close study of three plus one situations in which graffiti has been recorded. The talk discusses how the book, in both drawn and written form, describes the graffiti and opens up questions of graffiti related to each situation. Based on Warburg’s atlasing methods, the talk suggests a design take on atlas making whilst – following W.J.T. Mitchell’s picture theory – challenging the distinction between drawing and writing.

This was the second Urban Creativity Seminar of the spring term of 2020. The seminar was arranged in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Period	2020 Mar 11
Event type	Seminar
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International