poster

The Network Dependence of Creative Minds

Claudia Scholz

  
Biography

Claudia Scholz is a research associate at Institute of Economics Research at Lugano University, where she is in charge of the research team "The attractive city". In her research, she aims to develop a new interaction approach to urban planning. In particular, she focuses on small city development  and the use of attractiveness in the evaluation of urban environments. Recent studies have concluded in the elaboration of conceptual frameworks for studying the linkages between photography and regional development factors. During 2006/2007, she was a visiting fellow at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. She studied architecture at the Accademia di architettura, University of Lugano and at the Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany), gained her Diploma of Architecture at the University of Lugano. She has teaching experiences at the Accademia di architettura. Prior to her work in academia, she gained professional experiences as an architect in Paris and Switzerland.
 

Abstract

The existence of different networks and their intersection in one single person is going to be the base for the definition of new fields of co-existent collaboration. Therefore the key unit of analysis is not the individual work of an artist but his relation to his networks and systems that he is a part of. The British photographer John Donat (1933-2004), a significant example for the tendency of photo-journalism applied in architectural photography during the 1960's, tried everything to expand the influence of architectural photography beyond the narrow borders of the profession. Working actively not only as photographer, but also as an architect, writer, editor, broadcaster and teacher at the same time, his overlapping activities make him particularly interesting as a subject of study. His concern for overcoming the gap between the professional world of architects and the public suggests his consciousness of the importance of a network culture.