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Dr Günter Gassner
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Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Gwleidyddiaeth a Dylunio
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n ysgolhaig rhyngddisgyblaethol sydd â diddordeb mewn archwiliad beirniadol a chreadigol o ddylunio a lleoedd. Mae fy ymchwil ar groesffordd pracs gofodol, theori gymdeithasol, ac athroniaeth wleidyddol. Rwy'n canolbwyntio ar y berthynas rhwng gwleidyddiaeth ac estheteg, gwrthffasgaeth a threfoli, a methodolegau gweledol a hanesyddiaethau.
Yn fy monograff ymchwil diweddaraf Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London Towering Cityscape (Routledge, 2020; clawr meddal 2021) rwy'n archwilio'r gorwel trefol fel gofod ar gyfer gwleidyddiaeth radical. Gan ddatblygu beirniadaeth o adeiladu tyrau mwy a mwy hapfasnachol yn ogystal â beirniadaeth o'r honiad bod y tyrau hyn yn difetha'r ddinaslun hanesyddol, rwy'n archwilio adfail fel portread gwleidyddol o'r ddinaslun wedi'i addasu a'i gyllido ac yn dadlau dros ail-lunio gwleidyddiaeth drefol fel celfyddyd o'r bosibl.
Mewn prosiectau cyfredol, rwy'n archwilio gofodau awdurdodol asgell dde sy'n israddol gwahaniaeth i weledigaeth ganolog, trais harddwch trefol, a dychymyg trefol ffasgaidd 'dinas ôl-ras'. Yn ogystal, rwy'n gweithio ar brosiect llyfrau gyda'r teitl rhagarweiniol Antifa Urbanism lle rwy'n archwilio gwrthffasgaeth milwriaethus yn yr Almaen, y DU a'r Unol Daleithiau fel anrhyddfrydwr (yn hytrach na rhyddfrydol neu wrth-ryddfrydol) a pracs gofodol rhyddhaol. Rhan o'r prosiect hwn yw ymchwiliadau i wrthffasgaeth queer yn y 1970au a gwrthffasgaeth chwyldroadol yn y 1990au.
Rwy'n cydweithio ag Archif Walter Benjamin yn Academi Celfyddydau Berlin, Poligonal – Swyddfa Cyfathrebu Trefol, a'r Amgueddfa Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ym mhrosiect Walter Benjamin yn Berlin . Gan ddatblygu darlleniad cyhoeddus gwrth-ddramatig, darnau sain polyffonig, a gwahodd artistiaid i ddatblygu ymyriadau perfformiadol mewn mannau cyhoeddus, mae'r prosiect hwn yn lleoli bywyd a gwaith Benjamin ym Merlin i ymyrryd yn feirniadol ac yn greadigol mewn dadleuon trefol cyfredol, addasu bywyd trefol, a phatrymau meddwl ffasgaidd. Ynghyd â Matthew Cheesman a'r gwneuthurwyr theatr, gweithredwyr ac ysgolheigion yn y DU, yr Almaen a Gwlad Groeg, sefydlais brosiect hefyd sy'n ail-actifadu theatr wrthffasgaidd trwy sefydlu rhwydwaith theatr gwrthffasgaidd rhyngwladol a datblygu 'glasbrintiau' ar gyfer perfformiadau gwrthffasgaidd yn seiliedig ar ymchwil archifol.
Fi yw'r arweinydd ymchwil rhyngddisgyblaethol yn yr Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio ac yn gyd-sylfaenydd CIRAF – Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right, sy'n rhwydwaith ymchwil sy'n rhychwantu chwe ysgol yng Ngholeg y Celfyddydau, y Dyniaethau a'r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol. Ymunais â'r Ysgol yn 2016 a chyn hynny dysgais ym Mhrifysgol y Celfyddydau Llundain, Central Saint Martins ac yn yr Adran Gymdeithaseg yn Ysgol Economeg Llundain. Cyn fy ngyrfa academaidd bûm yn ymarfer fel pensaer a dylunydd trefol yn Fienna, Barcelona a Llundain.
Cyhoeddiad
2025
- Gassner, G. 2025. Drawing a ‘revolutionary we’: queer antifascist lines for universal liberation. cultural geographies (10.1177/14744740251324901)
2023
- Gassner, G. 2023. Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume [Revolutionary antifascism as a city map: Violent spaces, free spaces, and dream spaces]. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für Kritische Stadtforschung 11(3-4), pp. 199-231. (10.36900/suburban.v11i3/4.862)
- Gassner, G. 2023. Aestheticizing the beautiful city: democratic politics and design review. Urban Geography 44(6), pp. 1098-1116. (10.1080/02723638.2021.1874742)
- Gassner, G. 2023. Avenue of atrocities: modern phantasmagorias and the anti-modern. lo Squaderno 64, pp. 21-28.
- Gassner, G. 2023. The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change by Mónica Montserrat Degen and Gillian Rose, London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts [Book review]. Planning Perspectives 38(1), pp. 225-227. (10.1080/02665433.2022.2157156)
2022
- Gassner, G. 2022. Antifascism and anti-5G conspiracies.. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 7, article number: 3.
- Gassner, G. 2022. Beauty as violence. Planning Theory and Practice 23(4), pp. 601-633. (10.1080/14649357.2022.2113613)
- Gassner, G. 2022. Spiral movement: writing with fascism and urban violence. Sociological Review 70(4), pp. 786-809. (10.1177/00380261221106526)
- Gassner, G. 2022. Aesthetics of gentrification: seductive spaces and exclusive communities in the neoliberal city: edited by Christoph Lindner and Gerard F. Sandoval [Book Review]. Journal of Urban Design 27(3), pp. 394-396. (10.1080/13574809.2022.2035922)
2021
- Brigstocke, J. and Gassner, G. 2021. Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics. Geohumanities 7(2), pp. 359-369. (10.1080/2373566X.2021.1977163)
- Gassner, G. 2021. Fragments of cityscapes. In: Giannakopoulou, G. and Gilloch, G. eds. The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 91-103.
- Gassner, G. 2021. Drawing as an ethico-political practice. Geohumanities 7(2), pp. 441-454. (10.1080/2373566X.2021.1903814)
2020
- Gassner, G. 2020. The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain, Brett Christophers [Book Review]. Planning Perspectives 35(6), pp. 1126-1128. (10.1080/02665433.2020.1839174)
2019
- Gassner, G. 2019. Ruined skylines: aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape. Routledge Research in Architecture. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315105895)
- Gassner, G. 2019. Thinking against Heritage: speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London. Journal of Urbanism 12(3), pp. 279-295. (10.1080/17549175.2019.1576757)
2018
- Gassner, G. 2018. Democratic cityscapes: Politicising urban form against private profit maximisation. Presented at: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, US, 10 - 14 April 2018.
- Gassner, G. 2018. Emergency brakes: Failed projects and London's development trajectory. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference, Cardiff, UK, 28 - 31 August 2018.
2017
- Gassner, G. 2017. Radically conservative. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/geographyandplanning/2017/12/13/radically-conservative/
- Gassner, G. 2017. Critical Distance: Walter Benjamin's pathos of nearness and London's building boom. In: Black Box: A Record of The Catastrophe., Vol. 2. PM Press
- Gassner, G. 2017. Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the city is viewed. City 21(6), pp. 754-768.
2016
- Gassner, G. 2016. A religious office tower? Virgin Mary's outspread cloak in the City of London. In: Quash, B., Rosen, A. and Reddaway, C. eds. Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion. I.B.Tauris, pp. 171-188.
- Gassner, G. 2016. Seeing capitalism in the view. Urban Design 139, pp. 23-25.
2012
- Gassner, G., Kaasa, A. and Robinson, K. 2012. Introduction: the process of Writing Cities 2011. Writing Cities: Working Papers 2, pp. 12-15.
2010
- Tavernor, R. and Gassner, G. 2010. Visual consequences of the plan: managing London's changing skyline. City, Culture and Society 1(2), pp. 99-108. (10.1016/j.ccs.2010.06.001)
- Gassner, G. 2010. Skylines and the 'whole' City: Protected and unprotected views from the South Bank towards the City of London. Writing Cities: Working Papers 1, pp. 142-155.
2009
- Gassner, G. 2009. Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through its skylines. In: Davis, J. et al. eds. Researching the Spatial and Social Life of the City., Vol. 1. citiesLAB London School of Economics and Political Science, pp. 68-86.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Gassner, G. 2021. Fragments of cityscapes. In: Giannakopoulou, G. and Gilloch, G. eds. The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 91-103.
- Gassner, G. 2017. Critical Distance: Walter Benjamin's pathos of nearness and London's building boom. In: Black Box: A Record of The Catastrophe., Vol. 2. PM Press
- Gassner, G. 2016. A religious office tower? Virgin Mary's outspread cloak in the City of London. In: Quash, B., Rosen, A. and Reddaway, C. eds. Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion. I.B.Tauris, pp. 171-188.
- Gassner, G. 2009. Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through its skylines. In: Davis, J. et al. eds. Researching the Spatial and Social Life of the City., Vol. 1. citiesLAB London School of Economics and Political Science, pp. 68-86.
Cynadleddau
- Gassner, G. 2018. Democratic cityscapes: Politicising urban form against private profit maximisation. Presented at: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, US, 10 - 14 April 2018.
- Gassner, G. 2018. Emergency brakes: Failed projects and London's development trajectory. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference, Cardiff, UK, 28 - 31 August 2018.
Erthyglau
- Gassner, G. 2025. Drawing a ‘revolutionary we’: queer antifascist lines for universal liberation. cultural geographies (10.1177/14744740251324901)
- Gassner, G. 2023. Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume [Revolutionary antifascism as a city map: Violent spaces, free spaces, and dream spaces]. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für Kritische Stadtforschung 11(3-4), pp. 199-231. (10.36900/suburban.v11i3/4.862)
- Gassner, G. 2023. Aestheticizing the beautiful city: democratic politics and design review. Urban Geography 44(6), pp. 1098-1116. (10.1080/02723638.2021.1874742)
- Gassner, G. 2023. Avenue of atrocities: modern phantasmagorias and the anti-modern. lo Squaderno 64, pp. 21-28.
- Gassner, G. 2023. The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change by Mónica Montserrat Degen and Gillian Rose, London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts [Book review]. Planning Perspectives 38(1), pp. 225-227. (10.1080/02665433.2022.2157156)
- Gassner, G. 2022. Antifascism and anti-5G conspiracies.. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 7, article number: 3.
- Gassner, G. 2022. Beauty as violence. Planning Theory and Practice 23(4), pp. 601-633. (10.1080/14649357.2022.2113613)
- Gassner, G. 2022. Spiral movement: writing with fascism and urban violence. Sociological Review 70(4), pp. 786-809. (10.1177/00380261221106526)
- Gassner, G. 2022. Aesthetics of gentrification: seductive spaces and exclusive communities in the neoliberal city: edited by Christoph Lindner and Gerard F. Sandoval [Book Review]. Journal of Urban Design 27(3), pp. 394-396. (10.1080/13574809.2022.2035922)
- Brigstocke, J. and Gassner, G. 2021. Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics. Geohumanities 7(2), pp. 359-369. (10.1080/2373566X.2021.1977163)
- Gassner, G. 2021. Drawing as an ethico-political practice. Geohumanities 7(2), pp. 441-454. (10.1080/2373566X.2021.1903814)
- Gassner, G. 2020. The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain, Brett Christophers [Book Review]. Planning Perspectives 35(6), pp. 1126-1128. (10.1080/02665433.2020.1839174)
- Gassner, G. 2019. Thinking against Heritage: speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London. Journal of Urbanism 12(3), pp. 279-295. (10.1080/17549175.2019.1576757)
- Gassner, G. 2017. Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the city is viewed. City 21(6), pp. 754-768.
- Gassner, G. 2016. Seeing capitalism in the view. Urban Design 139, pp. 23-25.
- Gassner, G., Kaasa, A. and Robinson, K. 2012. Introduction: the process of Writing Cities 2011. Writing Cities: Working Papers 2, pp. 12-15.
- Tavernor, R. and Gassner, G. 2010. Visual consequences of the plan: managing London's changing skyline. City, Culture and Society 1(2), pp. 99-108. (10.1016/j.ccs.2010.06.001)
- Gassner, G. 2010. Skylines and the 'whole' City: Protected and unprotected views from the South Bank towards the City of London. Writing Cities: Working Papers 1, pp. 142-155.
Gwefannau
- Gassner, G. 2017. Radically conservative. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/geographyandplanning/2017/12/13/radically-conservative/
Llyfrau
- Gassner, G. 2019. Ruined skylines: aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape. Routledge Research in Architecture. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315105895)
Ymchwil
Mae fy ymchwil yn torri ar draws ffiniau disgyblaethol i ymchwilio i'r berthynas rhwng gwleidyddiaeth a dylunio. Mae fy ngwaith yn cyfrannu at dri phrif faes.
Gwleidyddiaeth ac Estheteg: Mae fy ngwaith yn ymestyn dadleuon ynghylch gwleidyddiaeth estheteg a dimensiwn esthetig gwleidyddiaeth radical. Mae gen i ddiddordeb arbennig mewn agweddau democrataidd ar brosesau a ffurfiau esthetig ac rwyf wedi astudio adeiladu tyrau hapfasnachol yn Llundain ac, yn fwy diweddar, estheteg isadeileddau trefol. Cyhoeddwyd yr ymchwil hon mewn monograff, Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London's Towering Cityscape (a adolygwyd yn Astudiaethau Trefol, LSE Review of Books, Cultural Geographies), yn ogystal ag mewn nifer o erthyglau cyfnodolion. Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n gweithio gyda chydweithwyr ar brosiect ar Drais o Harddwch Trefol.
Theori Trefol Beirniadol: Rwy'n cyfrannu at ddatblygiadau newydd mewn theori feirniadol trwy lens cyflyrau trefol cyfoes. Rwyf wedi canolbwyntio ar astudio gwaith damcaniaethwyr beirniadol sy'n gysylltiedig ag Ysgol Frankfurt a Walter Benjamin yn arbennig. Ysgrifennais ar ei 'ddull monadolegol', ac rwy'n archwilio dinasluniau baróc wedi'u haddasu a'u hariannu, y berthynas rhwng montages llenyddol a dinasluniau democrataidd, a gofodau o ddarnio a dieithrio cymdeithasol. Cyhoeddwyd yr ymchwil hon mewn sawl erthygl mewn cyfnodolion ac mewn penodau llyfrau (e.e. Y Ditectif Moderniaeth; Delweddu dinas sanctaidd). Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n dechrau prosiect cydweithredol newydd ar wenith ar-lein.
Ffasgiaeth, hil, a materoldeb: Mewn cyfnod pan fo'r dde eithafol ar gynnydd, mae'r dde eithafol yn dod yn fwyfwy prif ffrwd, ac mae'n ymddangos bod arweinwyr awtocrataidd yn ddirwystr mewn llawer o wledydd 'democrataidd', mae'r gwaith hwn yn archwilio gofodau asgell dde ac amseroedd gofod awdurdodaidd sy'n israddol gwahaniaeth i weledigaeth ganolog. Gan gymryd hanes Benjamin o ffasgaeth fel 'esthetigeiddio gwleidyddiaeth' a gwaith Deleuze a Guattari ar y grefft o fyw yn groes i bob math o ffasgaeth fel mannau cychwyn, mae gennyf ddiddordeb arbennig mewn archwilio dychymyg ffasgaidd dinas ôl-hil yn erbyn antifascism fel arfer gofodol anrhyddfrydol a gwahanol fathau o wrthffasgwyr gofod trefol (gwirioneddol a rhithwir).
Addysgu
Mae fy addysgu yn mynd i'r afael â dimensiynau gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol, economaidd a diwylliannol dylunio. Mae'n seiliedig ar ymarfer ac yn cael ei arwain gan ymchwil gyda'r nod o agor lle ar gyfer arbrofi a lleoli gwleidyddol. Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n addysgu ar fodiwlau ar draws rhaglenni Daearyddiaeth Ddynol a rhaglenni Cynllunio Trefol gan gynnwys 'Mannau Ffiniau', 'Dinasoedd' a minnau'n arwain y modiwl 'Politics of Design'.
Bywgraffiad
Previous academic positions
- 2016 - present: Lecturer in Urban Design, Cardiff University, School of Geography and Planning.
- 2015 - 2016: Course Tutor in Sociology and City Design, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology.
- 2008 - 2016: Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, Spatial Practices Programme.
- 2011 - 2014: Guest Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science, Cities Programme.
Education
- 2013: PhD (Sociology) London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
- 2005: Master in Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
Professional experience
- 2014 - 2015: Urban Researcher, LSE Cities, London, UK.
- 2008 - 2009: Urban Researcher, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), London, UK.
- 2005 - 2007: Project Architect, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London, UK.
- 2004 - 2005: Architect, F451 Arquitectura, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2002 - 2004: Architect, Frötscher Lichtenwagner Architekten, Vienna, Austria.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Rwy'n croesawu datganiadau o ddiddordeb ar gyfer goruchwyliaeth PhD ar draws cylch gwaith eang fy arbenigeddau ymchwil. Yn benodol, rwy'n awyddus i glywed gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr PhD sydd â diddordeb yn y meysydd canlynol:
- Gwleidyddiaeth dylunio a dylunio gwleidyddiaeth
- Gofodau a gwleidyddiaeth estheteg
- Ysgrifennu trefol creadigol
- Mannau asgell dde
- Symudiadau ffasgaidd ac antifascist
- Ras a gofod
- Theori feirniadol a theori hil feirniadol
Contact Details
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