05.03. – 25.06.2022.
Research and education in shock drive!
On October 4, 1957, Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, orbited the Earth. The Soviet Union’s triumph triggered the so-called “Sputnik shock” in the West.
Out of a deep sense of insecurity about the supposed gap in education and progress, governments decided on large investment programs for research and education, whereupon the spaces and times of learning literally exploded. Full-day schools and education centers were built, reform universities were founded, and language labs were established.
In this exhibition, curated by Tom Holert, this era is interrogated against the backdrop of current debates about the relationship between education and space. On the one hand, the term “educational shock” refers to the shock metaphors of the time that have been addressed. On the other hand, it refers to the shocks to which education was exposed in the course of reform and modernization.
The exhibition follows the principle of the case study. Each of the approximately thirty-five stations elaborates on a particular aspect of the global educational events of the 1960s and 1970s.
BEducational Shock: Learning, Politics, and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s.
05.03. – 25.06.2022
vai – Vorarlberg Architektur Institut
Marktstraße 33
6850 Dornbirn
www.v-a-i.at
