Wintersemester 2014/2015

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.