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Dr Günter Gassner
Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Gwleidyddiaeth a Dylunio
Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio
- GassnerG@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 74640
- Adeilad Morgannwg, Ystafell 2.96, Rhodfa’r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3WA
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n ysgolhaig trefol rhyngddisgyblaethol sydd â diddordeb mewn archwiliad beirniadol a chreadigol o ddylunio gofodol, dinasoedd a phensaernïaeth. Mae fy ymchwil ar groesffordd arferion gofodol, theori gymdeithasol, ac athroniaeth wleidyddol. Rwy'n canolbwyntio ar y berthynas rhwng gwleidyddiaeth ac estheteg, hanes a phŵer, a ffasgaeth a threfoledd.
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 addasiad 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 yn yr Almaen, y DU a'r Unol Daleithiau fel anryddfrydwr (yn hytrach na rhyddfrydol neu wrth-ryddfrydol) ac yn pratice gofodol rhyddhaol. Rhan o'r prosiect hwn yw ymchwiliadau i antifascism queer yn y 1970au a gwrthffasgaeth chwyldroadol yn y 1990au.
Rwyf hefyd yn cydweithio ag Archif Walter Benjamin yn Academi Celfyddydau Berlin, Swyddfa Cyfathrebu Trefol Poligonal, a'r Amgueddfa Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ar Brosiect Benjamin Berlin. Mae'r prosiect hwn yn coffáu Walter Benjamin yn Berlin ac yn archwilio ffyrdd eraill o gofio'r cyhoedd. Gan ddatblygu llwyfan canllaw sain a churadu ymyriadau mannau cyhoeddus, mae'n archwilio bywyd Benjamin a'i waith ar ddinasoedd modern i ddatrys y broblem o addasu bywyd trefol a rôl creadigrwydd wrth wrthweithio patrymau meddwl ffasgaidd yn y ddinas gyfoes.
Fi yw'r arweinydd ymchwil rhyngddisgyblaethol yn yr Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio ac yn gyd-sylfaenydd Ymchwil Rhyngddisgyblaethol CIRAF–Caerdydd ar Antifascism a'r dde eithaf, 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, yn yr Adran Gymdeithaseg yn Ysgol Economeg Llundain. Cyn fy ngyrfa academaidd bûm yn ymarfer fel pensaer yn Fienna, Barcelona a Llundain.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- 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. 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.
- 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.
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. 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.
- 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.
Erthyglau
- 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
In the Academic Year 2016/17 I lead and teach the two modules CPT771 Urban Design Thinkers and CPT910 Autumn Studio. I contribute to the modules CPT852 Urban Design Foundation and CPT805 Site Planning, Design and Development. I also supervise postgraduate dissertation students and co-supervise a doctoral thesis on the topic of urban conflicts and the transformative potential of dissensus.
I am interested in supervising additional PhD students who work on social, cultural and political aspects of architecture and urban design and who have an interest in Critical Theory and Political Philosophy.
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