A Critical Glossary of Urban History Beyond Europe (?)
Project information
submitted by
Monika Motylińska
Co-Authors
Elisa Barbiani, Busenur Bulduk, Alejandro Diaz Rivera, Lucia Dück, Anna Clara Dusanek Guedes, Rayane Fariss, Ron Guetta, Samuel Justice, Lisa Alina Lindemann, Shayan Mahmoudikouhi, Karina Alejandra Mendoza Llontop, Cemre Onan, Eva Maria Raischl, Michael Emmett Rosenbaum, Martin Salek, Milla Leona Semisch, Ishrat Shaheen, Tsz Chung So, Dilan Tugce Suslu, Tin Chi Tsang, Yunqian Yao, Clément Yu
Mentors
Monika Motylińska
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism
Degree programme:
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Urban Planning (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Urban Studies (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
European Urban Studies (english) (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
– Other –
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2024
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / Main Building
Available during summaery opening hours
Project description
Our exhibition, prepared in the course of the block seminar “Urban History Beyond Europe?", is the first step towards developing a collective critical glossary of the key concepts of urban history, such as “the local”, “the transnational/national”, “exported/imported”, “colonial/neocolonial” or “(land) ownership”, grounding them in scholarly discourses and investigating them in the context of multiple case studies, within different geographies and temporalities. We don’t aim for a comprehensive overview. Instead, we invite visitors to consider connections and disconnections between the categories discussed here.
The ultimate goal is to reflect (our own) frameworks of thinking about what consists of urban history, what kind of language we are using, what limitations and biases we identify – and how we might attempt to overcome them and confront the Eurocentric focus within the discipline of urban history.