Urban Aesthetics: Education, Politics and Media – The novelty experience has been diluted in every aspect of daily life, intensified by the media technologies. To provide insight into this preliminary problem, this research on the essential values that underscore aesthetics, education, politics, media, and transformation processes focuses upon the following questions: What designates and conditions the exploitation of tragedy as a common basis for everyday visual experiences? What are the “true” symbolic values that prove facts through the use of images within the impact of global culture? For this analysis to proceed, it is necessary to ground this research in … Continue reading Research Line 2

Urban Aesthetics: Digital Age and Cinematographic Effects – This aesthetic research line integrates the art and technology of producing images and the history, theory, and pedagogy of its relationship with the social sciences and visual culture. In addition to achieving research results and knowledge, it is essential to focus on two strictly convergent studies involved in aesthetic experience: environmental and urban aesthetics—the interactions between nature, architecture, framing photography, moving images, and media—to understand the current value of the aesthetic realm. This study explores space and time modalities in the interdisciplinary exchange between perception studies and cinematic methods, theories, and editing … Continue reading Research Line 3

Environmental Aesthetics: Cultural Heritage, Technology, and Sustainable Development – What would the possibilities be for the continuous development and evolution of our environment following the implementation of creativity, techniques, and learning processes for problem-solving and improvement through design? Intriguing problems drive creativity and the development of methods to overcome the limits of ideas and thinking, which involve searching for greater understanding, knowledge, and, above all, a better human capacity to communicate and relate within our environments. What references in the history of design support social and technological development? At the end of the 20th century, the technological transformations were determinants … Continue reading Research Line 4

Christiane Wagner’s research focuses on culture, media, image studies, and the interface of architecture, film, art, design, and digital technology concerning cultural heritage, politics, postcolonial aesthetics, and environmental and urbanization issues. Four research lines regarding these fields of studies are outlined (please, click on the linked title): Research line (1) Challenges of Postcolonial Aesthetics: Knowledge, Education, and Democracy – Research line (2) Urban Aesthetics: Education, Politics and Media – Research line (3) Urban Aesthetics: Digital Age and Cinematographic Effects – Research line (4) Environmental Aesthetics: Cultural Heritage, Technology, and Sustainable Development Continue reading Research Lines