Improvisation des Raums
Christopher Dell beschreibt die flexible und kreative Nutzung von Räumen, oft in unvorhergesehenen Situationen. Anstatt starren Plänen zu folgen, passt man sich den aktuellen Bedürfnissen und Gegebenheiten an. Dies kann in der Architektur, im urbanen Design oder im alltäglichen Leben stattfinden. Improvisation ermöglicht innovative Lösungen und eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten, indem sie bestehende Räume dynamisch und anpassungsfähig gestaltet.
Christopher Dell
Christopher Dell (Prof. Dr phil. habil.) is an urban planning and architecture theorist, composer and musician based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Dell has been director of ifit, Institute for Improvisation Technology, Berlin, since 2000. With a doctorate in organisational psychology and a habilitation in cultural studies, Dell's research interests focus on practices and organisational processes in the contemporary city. In interdisciplinary work constellations, Dell seeks to conceptualise relational forms of action as procedures and to make them fruitful for research and design.
Dell has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts since 2017. He has been a member of integral designers network, Paris, since 2020. In addition to numerous essays and book contributions, Dell has published an extensive body of monographs.
As a composer and musician, Christopher Dell works in the field of contemporary music at the interface between representational and non-representational processes.
Dell understands the city as an improvised process that is created by actors, things, actions, discourses and vectors in places.
(Photo: copyright Nino Halm)