Course Catalogue Winter Semester 2013/2014
as on 27.09.2013
Contents
Lectures....................................................................................................................... p. 02
Urban Planning & Design
Urban Sociology
Project development
Seminars ..................................................................................................................... p. 03
Urban Planning & Design
Urban Sociology
Project development
Spatial Planning
Interdisciplinary fields / Model Projects / Applied Geographies
Exercise Courses ...........................................................................................................p. 09
Study Projects .............................................................................................................. p. 10
Additional Courses suitable for the “Optional compulsory”-section ........................................ p. 11
PhD-students are also invited for offers from the BauhausResearchSchool (BSR) programme
LECTURES (L)
Study-field: Urban Planning & Design
(L) 3 CP
European Suburbanism
Prof. Dr. B. Schönig
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: tuesdays, 6.00 pm / Marienstraße 13c, Hörsaal (lecture hall) B
start: 15.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Planners and urban designers alike appreciate what is commonly understood as the
“European city”: densely built, socially integrated, mixed use, walkable - altogether: a model
of sustainable urbanism. But leaving the urban cores, coming into the surrounding
landscape or flying in to European cities there is plenty of evidence that European cities
hardly can be defined exclusively by these criteria, that they are instead part of large city
regions: densely populated and built out areas integrating smaller cities, villages, and, yes,
a far stretched suburban landscape with single family homes, big box service clusters, malls
or factories linked by a network of highways and public transportation – an urban landscape
that, already some time ago has stopped to be an area subordinated to its core city, an “In-
Between-City” that even though planners may not like it, exists and will be of eminent
importance as a field of action for urban planners in future: how should or can the existing
post-suburban landscape be re-designed? How can auto-oriented urban structures in a
post-oil age be transformed? How can single family homes neighborhoods be adapted to
the needs of an aging population? How can fragmented governance structures be
overcome to implement strategies of sustainable regional development? The post-suburban
landscape raises many questions to urban planning and urban studies. Against the
background of international debates on the development of metropolitan areas, the lecture
series and the seminar will discuss different aspects of postsuburban landscapes integrating
different disciplinary perspectives. The objective of the lecture series is to provide an
understanding of the complexity and heterogeneity of postsuburban spaces. It will do so on
the one hand by approaching the topic from different disciplinary perspectives. Additionally
the lecture series will integrate papers on specific aspects, such as terminology and urban
theory, sociological aspects, building morphology or infrastructure in postsuburbia as well as
case studies on selected metropolitan areas in Germany and Europe
Study-field: Urban Sociology
(L) 3 CP
Introduction to Urban Sociology
Prof. Dr. F. Eckardt
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: mondays, 11.00 – 12.30 / Marienstraße 13c, Hörsaal (lecture hall) C
start: 14.10.2013
registration: 1st lecture
This lecture introduces the key ideas of urban sociology. It will deliver a first understanding
of the most important scholars in urban sociology form the classics (Simmel, Weber,
Chicago School) to today’s research. It provides furthermore a reading of historical
approaches to urban studies in Germany and a reflection on important aspects of recent
urban development (segregation, gentrification, multiculturalism). It pays special to the
sociology of cities in disaster situations.
Study-field / Module: Project development
(L) 3 CP
Basics and Methods of Real Estate Development
Prof. Dr. B. Nentwig
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: wednesdays, 9.15 – 10.45 / Coudraystraße 11 C - Seminarraum/Hörsaal
001
start: 16.10.2013
registration: 1st lecture
This lecture focusses main topics of real estate and urban development, analysis trends of
the real estate market, economic calculation in phases of the development. Additional to
this course the participants have to take part in the seminar „Real Estate Development“.
SEMINARS (S)
Study-field / Module: Urban Planning & Design
(S) 3 CP
European Suburbanism
Prof. Dr. B. Schönig
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Blocks on mondays 21.10., 28.10., 11.11., 25.11., 09.12., 04.02.,
1.30 - 5.00 pm / IfEU, 005
!!!note: students enrolling in the seminar cannot participate in the course
Moderation Group B !!!
fieldtrip 31.10. – 02.11.
start: 21.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Planners and urban designers alike appreciate what is commonly understood as the “European
city”: densely built, socially integrated, mixed use, walkable - altogether: a model of sustainable
urbanism. But leaving the urban cores, coming into the surrounding landscape or flying in to
European cities there is plenty of evidence that European cities hardly can be defined
exclusively by these criteria, that they are instead part of large city regions: densely populated
and built out areas integrating smaller cities, villages, and, yes, a far stretched suburban
landscape with single family homes, big box service clusters, malls or factories linked by a
network of highways and public transportation – an urban landscape that, already some time ago
has stopped to be an area subordinated to its core city, an “In-Between-City” that even though
planners may not like it, exists and will be of eminent importance as a field of action for urban
planners in future: how should or can the existing post-suburban landscape be re-designed?
How can auto-oriented urban structures in a post-oil age be transformed? How can single family
homes neighborhoods be adapted to the needs of an aging population? How can fragmented
governance structures be overcome to implement strategies of sustainable regional
development? The post-suburban landscape raises many questions to urban planning and urban
studies. Against the background of international debates on the development of metropolitan
areas, the lecture series and the seminar will discuss different aspects of postsuburban
landscapes integrating different disciplinary perspectives.
Building on the theoretical input of the lecture series and against the background of the idea
that (post-)suburbanization is a global phenomenon, whether specific patterns of the “In-
Between-City” in different national context can be identified. It will do so by discussing
different aspects of spatial development of metropolitan areas in a comparative perspective.
Postsuburban development in Germany will be discussed against the background of the
development in metropolitan areas in the home countries of the students. Students will
prepare a research report including international case studies and the synthesis of the
seminar’s discussion on “post-suburban” spaces in European metropolitan areas against the
background of global perspectives on the issue. Part of the seminar is an excursion to Berlin
and its historic and present suburban developments (November 1st and 2nd)
Study-field / Module: Urban Sociology
(S) 3 CP
Planning for the diverse city
L. Sharifi Sadeghi, M.Sc.
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Tuesdays, 11.00 am – 3 pm, uneven weeks, IfEU, 005
start: 22.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Cultural diversity is the becoming the dominant character of cities around the world.
Changes in the political and economic structure of the cities, religious and tribal conflicts,
war, seeking new job opportunities and technological facilities have contributed to the
mobility of people around the world. Globalization has led not only to the fast transaction of
capital, but also people. However, the socio-cultural restructuring of the cities has been less
central to the planning discussions as the economic forces.
Is cultural diversity essentially a threat or an opportunity for the city? To find the answer,
this course starts with an overview of different models of handling diversity and their
implications and then probes further the theoretical aspects of multiculturalists’ model,
based on the utopian concept of “Cosmopolis” introduced by Sandercock as a site of
tolerance and respect to differences: ‘…a construction site of the mind and heart, a city in
which there is genuine acceptance of, connection with, and respect for ‘the stranger’
(outsider, foreigner…), in which there exists the possibility of working together on matters of
common destiny, of forging new hybrid cultures and communities.’ (Sandercock 2003: xiv).
Meanwhile, an increasing number of scholars have recently started questioning commonly
held view of multiculturalism and raised new critics on it, and therefore, some authors have
been on the search of new approaches to manage ethnic diversity, which is mostly defined
as post-multiculturalism literature. We will revisit the main contributions to this literature and
examine the main failure reasons of traditional multiculturalism.
As some major religions and civilizations have been founded in the Middle East, cultural
diversity has had a long history of being the source of conflict and intolerance. On the other
hand, we have been witnessing some drastic changes/reformations in the social and urban
atmosphere of several countries in this region, namely Istanbul, Alexandria, Cairo and
Amman. One common point which has had a great influence on the socio-cultural
atmosphere of the mentioned cities is that Islam is being practiced by a large number of
people. In this course, several forums will be held to discuss the current processes in the
mentioned cities and the relation of Islam and city planning/developments in them.
In addition to the above, three guest lecturers will be invited as well.
Study-field / Module: Urban Sociology
(S) 3 CP
Segregation: Divided Cities in Europe
J. Plaul, M.A.
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Tuesdays, 11.00 am – 3 pm, even weeks, IfEU, 005
start: 15.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Spatial division along class and/or ethnic lines is commonplace in urban spaces around the
world, varying only in the intensity of the gap between social groups. This seminar aims to
discuss the history of theorizing urban segregation in the context of evolving paradigms of
urban studies. In addition, we will explore current theoretical debates and practical
approaches to spatial inequality. Despite the fact that segregation in European cities does
not reach the same extremes as e.g. favelas in Brazil or slums in India, it significantly
impacts social interactions within urban space and the urban fabric itself, thus influencing
society as a whole. The seminar will consist of readings and discussion as well as case
study investigations on European cities of various sizes. An excursion to Halle (Saale) (ca.
1,5h from Weimar) is planned.
Study-field / Module: Urban Sociology
(S) 3 CP
Research in Urban Studies
Prof. Dr. F. Eckardt
addresses: PhD-Students IfEU
language: English
time/ location: January 2014/ Weimar, Martinsfeld
start: will be announced
registration: until October 15, 2013 via email: sieglinde.meinberg@uni-weimar.de
With this seminar, the basic idea to come from an interesting theme to a feasible research
project will be discussed and trained. After a first meeting, the students will have to read
some basic literature on how to design a research project and to sum up their way of
methodologically advance on a single page. In January, a two-day workshop in a Thuringian
village will be used for getting a more intensive idea of what research is. It will consist of a
method training (expert interviews, focus group interviews, narrative interviews) and a
review of the personal ideas on every one’s personal research strategies.
Study-field / Module: Project development
(S) 3 CP
Real Estate Project Development
Prof. Dr. B. Nentwig, N. Martin, M.Sc.
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students
language: English
time/ location: Wednesdays,
Group A: 11.00 am – 3 pm even weeks/ IfEU 007
Group B: 11.00 am – 3 pm uneven weeks/ IfEU 007
start: Group A: 16.10.2013, Group B: 23.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Constitutive on the course Basics and Methods of Real Estate Project Development a
development task is the main topic of this course. Characteristics are market and location
analysis, concepts for estimated usage and economic calculations. Additional information
will be given in the first course.
Study-field / Module: Spatial Planning
(S) 3 CP
Whose Public Spaces?
Dipl.-Geogr. S. Schindlauer, A. Varriale M.A.
addresses: Master EU 1/ 3, Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students
language: English
time/ location: Block: 18.10., 25.10., 06.12., 10.01./ IfEU 008
15. - 17.11. somewhere in Thuringia
start: 18.10.2013
registration: Until October 15, 2013 via email: sandra.schindlauer@uni-weimar.de
“Public spaces” is a relevant topic in urban studies for both its salience in urban studies and
for the political sensitivity of the issue. In our opinion, these two aspects are closely
interrelated. The recent protests on Taksim Square in Istanbul, e.g., can be seen as an
evidence of this assumption. Furthermore protests on public spaces can be easily
integrated in the ongoing “Right to the City” debate initiated by Don Mitchell (2003) and Neil
Smith (1996). In Germany, this debate was prompted by the so called “SOS” strategy
(Sicherheit, Ordnung, Sauberkeit) of the Deutsche Bahn, a concept being now used as a
legitimation for the exclusion of undesired groups in public spaces.
We would like to cover these issues by emphasizing how political authorities may take
advantage of subjective feelings such as insecurity, which is often amplified by the media.
We also wish to discuss the effectiveness and reasonableness of strategies like the famous
“Zero Tolerance Policy”, which supposedly reduces crime rates in the city and make its
areas, including public spaces, allegedly safer. We would also like to offer an overview of
different practices which aim to limit the access to public spaces. Privatization processes,
conflicts of interest, the purposeful design of public spaces, the 24/7 surveillance and other
restrictive mechanisms will be discussed with regard to their obvious, hidden and
unintended (side)effects.
At the same time, we will stress the role of citizens. It is too easy to hand over the
responsibility for restrictive actions solely to the authorities, since policies can and must
somehow be accepted and justified by the public. Hence, we will also draw attention on the
behavior and reactions of citizens to different policies regarding public spaces. This part will
deal with questions such as: Why are some restrictions of public spaces accepted, while
others trigger massive protests? Why do we sometimes accept exclusion or even ask for it?
Are some restrictions perhaps necessary for the upkeep of public spaces, or is this a
contradiction in itself? How do personal concerns about security affect our expec-tations on
public spaces?
In this manner we would like to encourage students to question their own thinking and
behavior. We thus also hope to raise the students’ awareness about the importance of
people’s preconception to understand why certain uses of public space are perceived as
more legitimate than others.
Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields
(S) 3 CP
Introduction to Model Projects
Dipl.-Ing. Ph. Schmidt M.Sc.
addresses: Master EU Sem1
language: English
time/ location: wednesdays, 3.15 – 6.30 pm even weeks/ IfEU 005
start: 16.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
The seminar serves as preparation for the Model Project semester in the winter semester
2013/14. Students will learn about the diverse fields of work in the field of urbanism and
urban studies and are introduced to the 'Model Projects European Urban Studies'. On a
practical side, students will learn to more clearly define their capabilities and professional
pathway within their personal portfolios and individual presentations. The seminar finally
targets on a successful application at selected model project partners in the private or public
sector in urban planning, design, research or administration for their practical research
semester (third semester).
Participants of this seminar (only European Urban Studies) are also invited to participate in
the third semester's meetings of the model project seminar to get first impressions of
content and form of different experiences from last semester’s model projects.
Note: Participation is mandatory and only for first semester EU students as a precondition to
be admitted to the Model Projects in their third semester!
Class based on continuous and
active participation. Attested absence of more than two meetings leads to credit failure.
Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields
(S) 6 CP
Model Project Forum/ Model Project Forum Seminar
Dipl.-Ing. Ph. Schmidt M.Sc.
addresses: Master EU Sem3
language: English
time/ location: wednesdays, 3.15 – 6.30 pm uneven weeks/ IfEU 005
start: 23.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
The seminar’s goal is to exchange about and learn from different projects in the field of urban
practice where second semester students have been involved in during their Model Project
semester in summer 2013. The seminar challenges students to contextualize the own
individual practical work and research experience into a broader context of urban research.
This allows participants to deepen the understanding between practice and theory, to
contribute real-world-experience in a reflective way and to develop a own set of
interdisciplinary action approaches within their individual professional appreciation.
Finally, the seminar also prepares students to hold a lecture for the International Model
Project Forum in front of audience that is dedicated to an overarching conference title.
The seminar mainly consist of three phases: 1.) Reporting and evaluating the Model Projects
through individual presentations and group discussion, 2.) Introduction to the Model Project
Forum including the preparation of and feedback on individual presentation concepts for the
forum, 3.) Coached rehearsals for presentations, and last but not least the final presentations
at the 13th International Model Project Forum (end of February 2014).
Note: Participation is mandatory for third semester EU students!
Class based on continuous and active participation. Attested absence of more than two
meetings leads to credit failure.
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Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields / Applied Geography
(S) 3 CP
Urbanism in China
L. W. M. Kam, M.Arch.
addresses: Master AdUrb 1, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Tuesdays, 3.00 – 6.00 pm even weeks/ IfEU 005
start: 15.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Contents
Like many other Asian cities, Chinese cities have been fundamentally undergoing a
transformation process in the previous decades, as a result of globalization and intensive
modernization. This development however, is accompanied by the destruction of the unique
cultural heritage and identity represented by the built environment in the region.
The broad discussion is, ‘Who are the actors contributing to the formation of the current
China?’ This course enables students to throw a glance to both the traditional and
contemporary built environment in the Chinese region through an interdisciplinary approach.
The course aims at providing an introduction to several selected Chinese cities on a
thematic basis, e.g., the vernacular architecture and urban settings for the Hakka tribe in the
Southeast Region of China, development Vs destruction in contemporary Shanghai and
post-colonial Hong Kong etc. Students are encouraged to interpret city and its urban
settings by understanding and considering its traditions, culture, politics, climate and
geography as well as the in- between dynamics and tensions of these issues.
A range of themes and locations will be introduced and the students will be studying and
investigating these Chinese cities/ towns/ regions as case studies. As the Chinese culture is
foreign for most of the students, we shall commence our investigation with these Chinese
cities/ settlements with the aid of different resources such as films, photography,
documentaries and paintings, as well as journals and literature.
The course includes a sequence of lectures and student presentations. The lectures will
provide the historical and theoretical background necessary for the discussion of
development issues in a broad perspective. Student presentations will focus on
independent research including observations, literature reviews and hence critical thinking.
Note: Participation is mandatory for AdUrb students in the first semester!
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EXERCISE COURSES (E)
Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields / Expertise mediation
(E) 3 CP
Introduction to Moderation
Dipl.-Ing. T. Dobberstein
addresses: Master EU, Master Ad Urb
language: English
time/ location: Blocks, mondays,
Group A: 14.10., 04.11., 02.12., 13.01., 9.15 am – 5.00 pm,
NOTE: students
participating in the seminar European Suburbanism have to choose this
course out of the two!!
/ IfEU 007
Group B: 21.10., 25.11., 09.12., 20.01./ IfEU 007
start: Group A: 14.10.2013, Group B: 21.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
Meetings with representatives of different interest groups are important milestones in today’s
planning processes. The different expectations regarding the outcome of the meeting and the
different backgrounds of the participants challenge the diplomatic skills of the planners who
lead the discussion. The lecture teaches fundamental tools to guide group meetings and
planning workshops towards a productive output. Practical exercise sessions address
techniques to visualize and to moderate planning related issues.
A consensus on multi-interest decisions in the urban context depends on the accurate
detection of all different interests of the stakeholders involved and the right analysis of
potentially conflicting positions. The implementation of informal planning strategies and
dialogue based communication are discussed in the course.
Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields / Expertise mediation
(E) 3 CP
Academic skills
Dr. K. Fleischmann
addresses: Master EU, Master Ad Urb, PhD, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Group A: tuesdays, 9.15 – 10.45 am / IfEU 005
Group B: Thursdays, 1.30 – 3.00 pm./ main building 002
start: Group A: 15.10.2013, Group B: 17.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
The aim of the course is to provide students with main skills in order to successfully realize
an own scientific research project. The main focus therefore is on the aspects of planning
an own research project and of writing a proper scientific paper.
At the beginning we will deal with the process of production of scientific knowledge as such
considering basic ‘rules’ of scientific work. As learning by doing is usually a successful way
which makes us experiencing the specific demands of a research process you will work in
the course in small teams defining and planning your own research project. Starting the
practical work we will first deal with different sources of information, how to decode and
evaluate them as wells as how to quote and organize them properly in scientific working and
writing. Now having an idea how and where to gather information you will define your own
research question and develop a research concept step by step going from a proper
wording of the research question to the selection of fitting research methods, time planning
and documentation.
In order to successfully complete the course a continuous and active participation in the
classes is required. Students will prepare and present a brief presentation in teams. The
course is held in English.
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STUDY PROJECTS (P)
Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields
(P) 24 CP
Die Hard – Small Village Edition
Prof. Dr. B. Nentwig, Dipl.-Ing. K. Hoffmann
addresses: Master EU Sem.3, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Thursdays, 9.15 am – 5 pm/ IfEU 007
start: 17.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
The study project is focusing on processes of shrinking and growing in the eastern part of
Germany. The basic theses are:
- villages and towns affected by shrinkage are causing disproportionately high costs,
especially infrastructure costs,
- remaining towns are suffering an asymmetry related to rural areas
- financial and structural incentives are made to attract the relocation of inhabitants from
shrinking villages to towns.
Next to socio-demographic and psychological questions, this study project mainly touches
questions about the „value“ and „costs“ of shrinking villages. Quantification may allow to
draw first conclusions for an incentive system for moving into towns. The areas “left-behind”
might eventually become of interest for other target groups and needs. The topic is highly
transferable regarding similar spatial structures in Europe and also bears a certain political
brisance.
Study-field / Module: Interdisciplinary Fields
(P) 24 CP
Integrated Ressource Management Battambang
Prof. Dr. J. Londong, Dipl.-Ing. J. Stäudel, Dr. B. Stratmann
addresses: Master EU Sem.3,
language: English
time/ location: t.b.a.
start: t.b.a.
registration: application including a CV and a letter of motivation (to be submitted by
October 10, 2013)
The interdisciplinary and international study project is jointly organised with the Royal
University of Battambang, Cambodia. It focuses on analyzing the complex interplay of a
range of issues in urban development the city of Battambang faces. A sound understanding
of the cultural, social, planning, and infrastructure realities and challenges will provide the
framework from which solutions to some of the city’s most pressing problems will be
developed. The study project is based on group work, workshops, lecturer input and
feedback. In the end of February/early March a two-week excursion to Battambang,
Cambodia will complete the project. During their research stay in Cambodia students will
conduct fieldwork and exchange knowledge with students from the Royal University of
Battambang. Some financial assistance for travel will be available for students who are
admitted to the course. On successful completion of the course graduate students of Civil
Engineering and Environmental Engineering will receive 12 credits for the course. Students
of European Urban Studies and Advanced Urbanism can obtain 21 credits for the course,
because additional tasks will be assigned to them.
ADDITIONAL COURSES SUITABLE FOR THE “OPTIONAL COMPULSORY”-SECTION
Study-field / Module: Optional Compulsory: Urban Heritage
(S) 3 CP
Urban Traces of Violence
Dipl.-Ing. J. Elzanowski
addresses: Master EU, Master AdUrb, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Thursdays, 3.15 – 4.45 pm/ main building 002
start: 24.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
In the context of the recent 10th anniversary of 9/11, this course proposes to re-evaluate the
role of often-ignored destroyed architecture in the current cultural heritage discourse.
Destroyed architecture as well as the process of destruction is usually written out of the
histories of urban production and discussed only as a by-product of violence, assumed to be
foreign to the contemporary city. In her book Enduring Innocence (2005), Keller Easterling
argues that destruction (or what she calls “subtraction”) has been “at least as important as the
making of building during the last half-century” but that surprisingly architecture as a discipline
“has not institutionalized special studies of subtraction.”
What is the place of destruction and indeed of violence in the 21st century city? What
architectural forms bear traces of violence and how do we commemorate those traces? Do
plaques, tablets or monuments in our cities help remember a civic or military resistance to
violence or do they reinforce the violence itself? What is the relationship between violence,
architecture and a city’s memorial landscape? Which institutions determine acceptable
heritage practices and how do these practices function within a larger academic discourse on
modernity and modernism?
These broad questions will guide students through a series of lectures and design workshops
that study post-war/industrial/colonial urban traces of violence: their materiality, morphology
and tectonic specificity. Students will address the ruin and its place in modernist planning in
aesthetic, architectonic and cultural terms. They will engage with the discourse on violence
and culture by tracking how the ruin (and its representation) entered public aesthetic
sensibilities in the form of artificial and authentic ruins, reconstructions, memorials, models,
photographs and films. From wartime and post-industrial decay, to heritage zones and
holocaust memorials, students will survey current literature on the representation of violence
on architecture. They will examine heavily destroyed Eastern and Central European cities
such as Warsaw, Berlin and Dresden as well as North American cities such as New York
(World Trade Center commemoration) and Detroit (commodification of the post-industrial
ruin).
During a final two-day design charrette students, working in small groups, will propose, situate
and document their own architectural interventions within the fabric of Weimar.
Study-field / Module: Optional Compulsory: Spatial Planning
(S) 3 CP
Border Regions
Dipl.-Ing. E. Sezgin
addresses: Master EU, Master AdUrb, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: 29.11, 30.11., 06.12., 07.12., 9am-5pm
start: 29.11.2013
registration: IfEU, room 103, 14.10.
The socio- political conjecture of states and societies has always found its reflection in the
trajectory of border regions. In the aftermath of World War 1 they were subject of cartography
with the main objective of finding the most appropriate ways for drawing the border lines, as
new states were emerging. During the cold war they were the outskirts of nation states,
remaining almost forgotten except military investments and have lost their contacts with
neighbours while polarization was increasing between two global powers. And in the times of
globalization they are declared to be bridges between societies and countries as the flows of
people, commodities, capital and information increases.
The aim of the course is to follow that trajectory of border regions with a political geography
perspective. An analysis of social institutions, political organizations and individual narratives
will be used with that purpose.
After a relatively short discussion of historical perspectives, particular importance will be given
to the impacts of globalization on border regions. Theoretical discussions will be supported by
case studies from different parts of the world.
Instructor: E. Sezgin, Research Assistant, Istanbul Technical University, Department of Urban
and Regional Planning
Study-field / Module: Optional Compulsory: Urban design
(S) 3 CP
Streetphotography: History, Composition, Practise
Dr. S. de Rudder, Dipl.-Ing. I. Brückner, Dipl.-Ing C. von Oppen
addresses: Master EU, Master AdUrb, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Wednesdays, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm/ Main building, 105
start: 23.10.2013
registration: Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 6, room 204, 14.10.
It is through pictures that we perceive the city. Piazza San Marco, el Malecón, or the streets
of our hometown? Pictures, mixed with memories and atmospheres. And we think in
pictures, when we design squares or urban spaces, when we think of a place we want to
live or a home we envision.
Often it is about pictures in our mind, created by the experience of a place we have really
been to – but maybe more often we think of photographs from the internet, from a book, a
movie, an advertisement. These pictures are preformatted, they were made and often
edited by someone, they construct a certain view and may become part of a public memory.
Some of the earliest photographs showed scenes of a city and ever since photographing
the city has become a genre of its own: street photography. In the first part of this seminar
we will learn about how photographs shaped our image of Paris or New York, how they
interpreted the city, how they turned urban space into two-dimensional compositions and
people on the street into social studies.
The seminar’s second part is an experiment: We design our own image of the city. If it is a
cell phone, a digital camera or an old-fashioned analog reflex camera – we will take
snapshots or composed photographs to get to an understanding of how we interpret the city
by taking pictures. It will be object of discussion if we focus on Weimar or any other city. The
outcome will be an exhibition, a book or a website depending on what direction the
participants choose to take. Thanks to funds provided by the university’s international office
we will be able to invite photographers and other specialists for guest lectures and
consultations.
Study-field / Module: Optional Compulsory: Urban design
(S) 3 CP
Streetphotography: History, Composition, Practise
Dr. S. de Rudder, Dipl.-Ing. I. Brückner, Dipl.-Ing C. von Oppen
addresses: Master EU, Master AdUrb, PhD-Students, Erasmus
language: English
time/ location: Wednesdays, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm/ Main building, 105
start: 23.10.2013
registration: IfEU, room 003, 14.10.
It is through pictures that we perceive the city. Piazza San Marco, el Malecón, or the streets
of our hometown? Pictures, mixed with memories and atmospheres. And we think in
pictures, when we design squares or urban spaces, when we think of a place we want to
live or a home we envision.
Often it is about pictures in our mind, created by the experience of a place we have really
been to – but maybe more often we think of photographs from the internet, from a book, a
movie, an advertisement. These pictures are preformatted, they were made and often
edited by someone, they construct a certain view and may become part of a public memory.
Some of the earliest photographs showed scenes of a city and ever since photographing
the city has become a genre of its own: street photography. In the first part of this seminar
we will learn about how photographs shaped our image of Paris or New York, how they
interpreted the city, how they turned urban space into two-dimensional compositions and
people on the street into social studies.
The seminar’s second part is an experiment: We design our own image of the city. If it is a
cell phone, a digital camera or an old-fashioned analog reflex camera – we will take
snapshots or composed photographs to get to an understanding of how we interpret the city
by taking pictures. It will be object of discussion if we focus on Weimar or any other city. The
outcome will be an exhibition, a book or a website depending on what direction the
participants choose to take. Thanks to funds provided by the university’s international office
we will be able to invite photographers and other specialists for guest lectures and
consultations.