Peter Mörtenböck
Staff details
Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at the Vienna University of Technology and visiting researcher in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, where he has initiated the Networked Cultures project (www.networkedcultures.org), a global research platform focusing on translocally connected spatial practices.
Peter has held several visiting professorships in fine art, cultural and media studies and has lectured and organised conferences at numerous universities and art schools worldwide. His current research is focused on the architecture of the political community and the economisation of the city, as well as the global use of raw materials, urban infrastructures and new data publics. Together with Helge Mooshammer, he curated the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, which explored the theme of “platform urbanism”.
Academic qualifications
- Habilitation Degree in Cultural History, Graz University of Technology 2002
- MSc in Architecture, Vienna University of Technology 1996
- PhD in Humanities, Vienna University of Technology 1995
- MA in Psychology, University of Vienna 1992
Research interests
Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer's joint research is concerned with new forms of spatial production vis-à-vis current processes of planetary change and the dynamics that inform them: geopolitical conflicts, capitalist urbanisation, new technologies and associated socio-economic developments such as mediatisation, financialisation and informalisation.
Ongoing long-term research projects include 'platFORMed city' (2022-2026), 'City Layers' (2023-2025), and 'Incorporating Informality' (2018-2023), the latter being a follow-up project to 'Other Markets' (2010-2015). Other previous projects include 'Relational Architecture' (2006-2009), 'Networked Cultures' (2005-2013), 'World of Matter' (2011-2018), and 'Data Publics' (2016-2021).
Mörtenböck and Mooshammer have authored and edited numerous books, including, amongst others, Visuelle Kultur (2003), Cruising: Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures (2005), Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space (2008), Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt (2010), Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (2011), Occupy: Räume des Protests (2012), the two-volume publication Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure - ATLAS & READER (2015), Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie (2016), and Visual Cultures as Opportunity (2016). Their essays have appeared in international journals such as Grey Room, Architectural Research Quarterly, Architectural Theory Review, Social Text, and Third Text.
Their most recent books incluce the edited volumes Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy (2020), Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents (2021) and IN/FORMAL Marketplaces: Experiments with Urban Reconfiguration (2023). They are currently working on the forthcoming monograph Building Capital: Urban Speculation and the Architecture of Finance.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2016. Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8394-3597-7
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2016. Visual Cultures as Opportunity. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-95679-100-0
Mörtenböck, Peter; Mooshammer, Helge; Cruz, Teddy and Forman, Fonna. 2015. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure - READER. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 978-94-6208-195-6
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure - ATLAS. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 978-94-6208-194-9
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2012. OCCUPY: Räume des Protests. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-2163-1
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1847-1
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2010. Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1356-8
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 978-9056620592
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, H.. 2003. Visuelle Kultur: Körper, Räume, Medien. Boehlau. ISBN 3205770404
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2001. Die virtuelle Dimension: Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace. Boehlau. ISBN 3205993489
Mörtenböck, Peter. 1996. Veränderte Identitäten : Potsdamer Platz Berlin - Donau-City Wien. Frankfurt: Lang. ISBN 9783631301968
Edited Book
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge, eds. 2023. IN/FORMAL Marketplaces: Experiments With Urban Reconfiguration. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 9789462088092
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge, eds. 2021. Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 9789462086159
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge, eds. 2020. DATA PUBLICS: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Routledge. ISBN 9780367184728
Allmeier, Daniela; Manka, Ingrid; Mörtenböck, Peter and Scheuvens, Rudolf, eds. 2016. Erinnerungsorte in Bewegung. Zur Neugestaltung des Gedenkens an Orten nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8376-3059-6
Mörtenböck, Peter; Antalovsky, Eugen and Weiermair, Cecilia, eds. 1996. City Mapping - Mapping Europe. Vienna: Europaforum. ISBN 3-9500576-0-9; 60
Book Section
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2023. Incorporating Informality. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. IN/FORMAL Marketplaces: Experiments With Urban Reconfiguration. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, pp. 9-51. ISBN 9789462088092
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2022. Platform Urbanism. In: Bianca Anna Böckle; Celina Martinez-Cañavate and Peter A. Staub, eds. Beyond the Biennale. Zurich: Triest Verlag, pp. 128-135. ISBN 9783038630678
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2021. Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, pp. 9-38. ISBN 9789462086159
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2020. Introduction: Data is not a property but a relation. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. DATA PUBLICS: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Routledge, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9780367184728
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2020. Platform urbanism: City-making in the age of platforms. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. DATA PUBLICS: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Routledge, pp. 169-191. ISBN 9780367184728
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2019. City as Interface. Self-generating Urban Environments and the Question of Labour. In: Helena Doudová, ed. Shared Cities Atlas. Post-Socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, pp. 196-201. ISBN 9789462085213
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2019. Frontier Climates – Managing the Global Commons. In: Karen Lutsky; Ozayr Saloojee and Emily Eliza Scott, eds. Viscosity - Mobilizing Materialities. 4 University of Minnesota School of Architecture, pp. 15-33. ISBN 978-0-36-835667-4
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2019. The Art of Crafting Formal-Informal Linkages: On the Enduring Appeal of Belo Horizonte’s Hippie Fair. In: Eveline Dürr and Juliane Müller, eds. The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books, pp. 43-63. ISBN 978-1-4985-7239-2
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2017. Tent Cities, People’s Kitchens, Free Universities – The Global Villages of Occupation Movements. In: Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal, eds. The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Ethics, Economies, Politics and Actions in Contemporary and Future Practice. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 257-270. ISBN 9781138859494
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2017. Other Markets: The Global Struggle of Informal Trading Places. In: Andreas Lepik; Marcello della Guistina and Chiara Ursini, eds. Does Permanence Matter? Ephemeral Urbanism. München: Architekturmuseum der TU München, pp. 62-79. ISBN 978-3-9819240-0-8
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2016. From Urban Talent to Commodity City: Marketplaces in the Informal Economy. In: Jonathan Darling and Helen Wilson, eds. Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York. London: Ashgate. ISBN 9781472432575
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Materials of Commemoration: The Changing Landscape of Mauthausen. In: Suzana Milevska, ed. On Productive Shame, Reconciliation and Agency. 16 Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 218-234. ISBN 978-3956791499
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. A World of Matter. In: Inke Arns, ed. World of Matter. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 160-172. ISBN 978-3-95679-083-6
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2015. Global Informality: Bottom-Up Trade and Transnational Realignments. In: Peter Mörtenböck; Helge Mooshammer; Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, eds. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure (Reader). Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, pp. 105-118. ISBN 9789462081956
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Blendende Werte: Die globale Zirkulation von Architektur- Kapital. In: , ed. Das Geschäft mit der Stadt. 28 Birkhäuser, pp. 28-43.
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Sammlungen des Protests: Von der Occupy-Bewegung zum Verwahren des Protests. In: Andreas Hudelist; Florian Kerschbaumer and Matthias Wieser, eds. Protestgebiete: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Raum und Widerstand. Novo mesto: arte4, pp. 23-45. ISBN 9789619363331
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2014. Network Economies of Waste. In: Juliet Steyn and Nadja Stamselberg, eds. Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 215-236. ISBN 9781780762593
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2014. Gunners and Runners. In: Lars Bang Larsen, ed. Networks. Whitechapel and MIT Press. ISBN 9780262525756
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2014. Die bewegte Stadt: Demokratiepolitische Potenziale sozialer Bewegungen am Beispiel der Occupy-Bewegung. In: Wolfgang Kastrup and Helmut Kellershohn, eds. Kapitalismus und/oder Demokratie: Beiträge zur Kritik ''marktkonformer'' Demokratieverhältnisse. Münster: Unrast Verlag, pp. 83-99. ISBN 978-3-89771-765-7
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2014. Strittige Öffentlichkeiten: Die Besetzung der Ökonomie. In: Andreas Langenohl and Dietmar J. Wetzel, eds. Finanzmarktpublika. Wirtschaft & Gesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-531-19707-4
Mörtenböck, Peter and UNSPECIFIED. 2014. Marktplätze der Öffentlichkeit. In: Caroline Schmidt and Asta Vonderau, eds. Öffentlichkeiten in Bewegung. Formationen von transnationalen Kommunikations- und Handlungsräumen. Bielefeld: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-2154-9
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. The Political Aesthetics of Counter-Terrorism Design. In: Gary Boyd and Denis Linehan, eds. Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space. London: Ashgate, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9781409439127
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. Informal Market Worlds: Instruments of Change. In: , ed. Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy - Currency. (04) Toronto: Scapegoat, pp. 203-220. ISBN 9781482370683
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2013. Krisenexperimente: Symbolische, physische und soziale Besetzungen von Stadtraum. In: Florian Dreher and Kerstin Faber, eds. New Babylon: Architecture and Urbanism after Crisis. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3959050418
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2013. Platzbewegungen: Expeditionen in den Raum der Versammlung’. In: Bastian Lange; Gottfried Prasenc and Harald Saiko, eds. Ortsentwürfe : Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Jovis. ISBN 9783868592290
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2013. The Architecture of Informal Trade. In: Aleksandra Wasilkowska, ed. Shadow Architectures. Warsaw: The Other Space Foundation/Fundacja Inna Przestrzen. ISBN 978-2320000786
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. Of Multi-Directional Forces: Interdependencies between Material, Social and Other Resources. In: Mabe Bethonico, ed. Provisoes / World of Matter. Belo Horizonte: ICC, pp. 98-125. ISBN 978-8561659240
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. Nieokreslonosc handlu - rynki nieformalne w Europie. In: Aleksandra Wasilkowska, ed. Shadow Architecture. Warschau: The Other Space Foundation, pp. 342-355. ISBN 978-2320000786
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2012. Visual Culture’. In: Arge Schnittpunkt, ed. Handbuch Ausstellungstheorie und -praxis. Stuttgart: UTB. ISBN 9783825237592
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2012. Not for Sale. In: Sabine Pollak, ed. Superstadt!: Zur Zukunft der Stadt zwischen Linz, London und Shanghai. Vienna: Sonderzahl Publishers. ISBN 978-3854493785
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Trade Flow: Architectures of Informal Markets. In: Andrew Ballantyne and Chris Smith, eds. Architecture in the Space of Flows. London: Routledge, pp. 117-134. ISBN 978-0-415-58541-5
Andrews, Jorella G.. 2011. Contemporary Art, "Counter-Environmentalism," and the Politics of A-Signification. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 43-58. ISBN 978-3-8376-1847-1
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Making Do. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Space (Re)Solutions - Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 127-138. ISBN 978-3-8376-1847-1
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Shifting Waters. In: Guven ncirlioglu and Hakan Topal, eds. Sea Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters. New York: Newgray, pp. 20-43. ISBN 978-0983603108
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. A Practice Without Discipline. In: Sabine Hochrieser; Michael Kargl; Birgit Rinagl and Franz Thalmair, eds. CONT3XT. Verlag für moderne Kunst.
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Networked Cultures - Collections of Alternative Approaches. In: Nishat Awan; Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till, eds. Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture. London: Routledge, pp. 124-126. ISBN 9780415571937
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2010. Networked Cultures. In: Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, eds. Cultures and Globalization Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. London: Sage. ISBN 9781412920865
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2010. Zwischen Palmen und Zypressen - Zivilgesellschaftliche Begegnungen im Raum der Ströme. In: Irene Nierhaus, ed. Landschaft, Gehäuse, Orientierung. Berlin: Reimer.
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2010. Allocations: Planning Processes and Other Participations in the Right to the City. In: Angela Heide and Elke Krasny, eds. Other Places: Vienna Lerchenfelder Street. Wien: Turia + Kant, pp. 87-89. ISBN 978-3-85132-588-1
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2009. Crossing the Mediterranean: Networked Agencies in Art and Culture. In: L.E. Grinin and A.V. Korotayev, eds. Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations: Cultural Dimensions. Moscow: Editorial URSS. ISBN 978-5-396-00010-0
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2009. Networked Cultures. In: Gulsen Bal, ed. Open Space - Mapping contemporary creative practice. London: Divus, pp. 100-111. ISBN 80-86450-50-3
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Plan ve Çatışkı: Ağ Örgüsüne Dahil Olan Istanbul. In: Gulsen Bal, ed. Türkiye'de Dün-Bugün Dönüşümleri. Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi, pp. 121-141. ISBN 978-605-105-000-3
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2008. Hürdenläufe der Ermächtigung. In: Birgit Richard and Alexander Ruhl, eds. Konsumguerilla: Widerstand gegen Massenkultur? Frankfurt: Campus. ISBN 978-3593387628
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2002. Heldinnen. Betrügerinnen, Versagerinnen - 'Nobody knows me, and I like that'. In: Felicitas Konecny and Irene Nierhaus, eds. räumen: Baupläne zwischen Raum, Visualität, Geschlecht und Architektur. Wien: selene, pp. 223-240. ISBN 978-3852661780
Article
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2021. Walk on the Wild Side: Sweet Homes in Emirates City, Ajman. forA(#0), pp. 254-269.
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2021. My Home Is My Future – Co-Living und das neue Ethos der Gemeinschaftsbildung. ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urbanism(244), pp. 200-207. ISSN 0587-3452
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2018. Crowdfunded Urban Development: Urban narratives as vehicles for new financial markets. ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urbanism, 51(231), pp. 186-189. ISSN 0587-3452
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2018. Urban frontiers in the global struggle for capital gains. Finance and Society, 4(1), pp. 108-125. ISSN 2059-5999
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Blendende Werte: Die globale Zirkulation von Architektur- Kapital. UmBau, 28, pp. 28-43.
Mörtenböck, Peter; Mooshammer, Helge; Tavares, Paulo; Huber, Frauke; Martin, Uwe H. and Biemann, Ursula. 2015. World of Matter. Architectural Theory Review, 20(1), pp. 122-134. ISSN 1326-4826
Mörtenböck, Peter; Mooshammer, Helge and Pieterse, Edgar. 2015. Informal Worlds Reader. Cityscapes - Re-thinking Urban Things(7), ISSN 2227-4006
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2014. Europäische Protestkultur: Platzbesetzungen zwischen Justizgewalt und Musealisierung. Archithese, 2014(6), pp. 80-87.
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2014. Performance des Protests. Kunstforum International, 224, pp. 122-135.
Biemann, Ursula; Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. From Supply Lines to Resource Ecologies. Third Text, 27(1), pp. 76-94. ISSN 0952-8822
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2012. Other Markets: The visual culture of informal trade. Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art,, 2(1),
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2012. At Home in the World. P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research)(4), pp. 35-39. ISSN 2041-2878
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2011. Informal Urbanism’ – Interview with Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner. KONstruktiv, 284,
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Grauzonen des Handelns. Bildpunkt, 2011(2), pp. 22-24. ISSN 2074-9783
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2009. Going Astray: Network Transformation and the Asymmetries of Globalization. Grey Room, 37, pp. 30-51. ISSN 1526-3819
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2009. The Art of Living With Strangers: Risk Taking in the Space of Flows. The Myth of Europa(7), pp. 20-21. ISSN 2041-6245
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Spaces of encounter: informal markets in Europe. Architectural Research Quarterly, 12(3-4), pp. 347-357. ISSN 1359-1355
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Plan and Conflict. Third Text, 22(1), pp. 57-69. ISSN 0952-8822
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2008. Network Operations: Nodal Points and Other Shapes of Global Networkification. Junk Jet, 2,
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2008. Operation Desert. MONU,
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2007. Networked Cultures. FeedBack, 4,
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2007. Trading Indeterminacy – Informal Markets in Europe. Field, 1(1), ISSN 1755-068
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2006. Happy Slapping - Urban Violence in the Age of Camera Phones. Monu - Magazine on Urbanism(5), pp. 44-48. ISSN 1860-3211
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2006. Contested Spaces - conflicts, networks and the geo-cultural practice of European architecture. architektur.aktuell, 31(316), pp. 98-109. ISSN 0570-6602
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2005. Free Running and the Hugged City. Thresholds(30), pp. 88-93. ISSN 1091-711X
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, H.. 2004. Inventing S-E-X. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 15(3), pp. 168-177. ISSN 1016765X
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2002. Digitale Welten: Nicht wissende User - ahnungslos Beteiligte. Archithese, 32(4), pp. 8-13. ISSN 1010-4089
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2001. Identität und Identifikation: Räumliche Konversionen, kulturelle Effekte, urbane Übersetzungen. Archithese, 31(6), pp. 14-19. ISSN 1010-4089
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2000. Swimming Between Ponds: technological subjects, corporate landscapes, digital bodies. architektur.aktuell, 34(246/47), pp. 108-117. ISSN 0570-6602
Digital
Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2012. Occupy: Demonstrationen von Protest.
Project
Mörtenböck, Peter. 2005-2009 Networked Cultures.
Further profile content
Featured publications
2023:
In/formal Marketplaces: Experiments with Urban Reconfiguration
This book provides critical insights into formal-informal linkages in urban transformation.
2021:
Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents
Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents discusses the fundamental transformation of urban space through platform technologies.
2020:
Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy
This book examines new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms.
2016:
Visual Cultures as Opportunity
In this book Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck analyse the networked spaces of global informal markets, the cultural frontiers of speculative investments, and recent urban protests.
2015:
Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure
Bringing into focus the contested spaces at the bottom of the world economy, this two-volume publication tracks the powers, currents and actors driving informal trade.
Research projects
2023-2024:
City Layers
The project seeks to set up an innovative framework for city-mapping which centres on citizen experience of urban space.
2022-2024:
Platformed City
This project seeks to visualise the networked interactions of “platform urbanism” through computer simulations, interactive cartographies, films, and animations.
2016-2021:
Data Publics
Data Publics is an international research project that investigates the political, economic and cultural conditions of data generation and the shaping of new public spheres.
2011-2015:
World of Matter
World of Matter is an international art and media project investigating primary materials (fossil, mineral, agrarian, maritime) and the complex ecologies of which they are a part.
2005-2009:
Networked Cultures
Networked Cultures investigates the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices.
1998-2002:
Imaginary Subjects in Architecture
This research deals with the transformation taking place in our spatio-temporal existence generated by the emergence of cyberspace as an integral part of the production of social and cultural order.
Media engagements
2021:
Platform Urbanism
94 min., dir. Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer; screened, amongst others, at Biennale Architettura (Venice).
2007:
Networked Cultures (Network Creativity – Contested Spaces – Trading Places – Parallel Worlds)
105 min., dir. Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer; screened, amongst others, at Whitechapel Gallery (London), santralistanbul (Istanbul), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York).
Grants and awards
2023:
City Layers
TCS Grant (citizen science), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2022:
Platformed City
PEEK Grant (arts-based research), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2020:
Curatorship of the Austrian Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2021
Winner of the competition for the curatorship of the Austrian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Biennale Venice 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2016:
Data Signs in Public
PEEK Grant (arts-based research), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)