Latent Soils
Sensing the Viennese City—Strata of the Anthropocene
AC-CS #44517
Various materials and concrete sites in Vienna as well as their representations in urban archives and databases are the starting point of the case study Latent Soils: Sensing the Viennese City-Strata of the Anthropocene by Katrin Hornek and Kira Lappé. It aims at making the constant and massively accelerating transformation of the urban ground in its entirety more tangible.
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Latent Soils: Rennweg 52
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Sample Wheel 3D Scan
Probenhalter 01
Katrin Hornek is a visual artist based in Vienna. Her work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene, that is, the new geologic epoch where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth.
Kira Lappé has studied Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Vienna as well as Geographic Information Science at the University of Salzburg. Her current research work focuses on creating a 3D model of the anthropogenic sediments underlying Vienna, investigating the growth of the anthropogenic influence.
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