Visuelle Vokabulare

The concept of "Visuelle Vokabulare" describes a practice of perception that considers the interplay of diverse perspectives of sensory experience within a contextual and relational arrangement. Contrary to the historically developed repertoire of perception in academic teaching at art and design schools, where things and the environment are seen statically and in isolation from each other, a "school of visual and multisensory spatial perception" integrates the processual, performance, social contextuality, and interaction. Nature and urbanity are rediscovered with current techniques and strategies of appropriation.

Specifically, the offerings of "Visuelle Vokabulare" relate to a visual-haptic perception of space and environment. This is newly developed in each workshop through attention training and articulation impulses. "Attention-Walks," "Walkscapes," "Mapping," "Visual Patterns," and "Notations" are among the offerings. With a focus on the "relationship between visuality and sociality," the basics of design and fine arts are appropriated on themes such as 'identity,' 'archive memory,' 'standardization/normativity,' 'ritual and routine,' 'spatial boundaries,' as well as 'color in space' and on finding processes in artistic practice.

The ability to articulate sensations both artistically-creatively and verbally is inherently a fundamental competence of any artistic, creative, or design discipline. Thus, recognizing the mechanisms of design in urban, rural, and social spaces is the basis for developing an individual vocabulary of independent aesthetic and rational evaluation criteria.

If the goal of the Real.Sense.Lab is to orient the methods and content of design disciplines and theories toward the personal development of individuals, this means sharpening their ability to independently assess situations and derive an unbiased attitude. Therefore, if the learning and teaching actors in the educational process interact responsibly (socially open) and communicate nonviolently both in the design process and in communication, they will also be able to sustainably shape future environments.

Responsible:

Faculty of Art and Design

Francis Zeischegg
Visual Artist

Artistic Practice (Art Education for High Schools)
Taught at the Bauhaus University-Weimar from 2009 to 2022

E-mail: mail[at]franciszeischegg.de