Semi-Detached
Ger with a Garden – Planning and Practise of Urban Environments
in Mongolia
DA Dissertation, Pori School of Art and Media, University of Art and
Design
The aim
of the research project is to study how peoples’ sense of being
in the world transforms under radical structural/ ideological changes,
and specifically how such transformations can be seen in the ways
the physical reality, the urban environment that people inhabit, is
being planned and experienced. How does urbanisation and change of
economical/ideological system affect peoples’ relation to nature,
to society, to their sense of place(less)ness and belonging and to
their sense of having influence in their living environment.
As a case study I have chosen the city of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.
The dissertation will take the form of historical-theoretical research
as well as interviews and the analysis of different kinds of imageries
(archival photographic material, magazines, pr-materials for current
development companies).
Besides this the dissertation will include artistic work as well as
curatorial and project leading work in connection with Mongolia: Perception
and Utopia – project, which was started in 2005 and planned
to continue to 2010.
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