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Subproject B02
Architectonic and Visually Mediated Conceptions of Security: Suburbs

2. Funding period (2018-2021)

In the early modern period and in the transition to modernity, the urban fringe is a zone that both contains a potential for threats and enables the demonstration of security, but also provides an opportunity for recreation. The subproject investigates the aesthetic conventions that convey to the addressees an impression of security or insecurity of the urban fringe. The object (material) of the project is the de-fortification, accompanying or subsequent urbanistic measures and their representations in the image, as well as images of the urban fringe and marginal population, which in the period under investigation (1660-ca.1850) is visualized as immigrating and initially settling the urban fringe.

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