Project information

submitted by
Anton Brokow-Loga

Co-Authors
Selma Bulic, Mu Chen, Alejandro Diaz Rivera, Abel Geressu, Levin Lucien Gertel, Ethan Guthrie, Titouan Guyon, Lara Maria Hartig, Luise Keffel, Magdalena Köhne, Celina Michaelsen Schmidt, Yasaman Mobasser, Shokouh Nafeli Shahrestani, Derrick Banahene Opoku, Olivia Ratay, Leona Sandmann, Lea Schade, Joanna Szala, Björn Teitsson, Leila Michelle Unland, Katharina Wittke, Kathleen Myers, Elisa Rustemi, Zachary Sanchez, Juliane Katherina Renate Schwabenbauer, Rivera Alejandro Diaz, Selim Tulumen, Luise Keffel, Frankie Brown, Katherin Gutierrez Herrera, Antonia Ney, SupaksirinWongsilp

Mentors
Anton Brokow-Loga, Frank Eckardt, Maximilian Hellriegel, Friederike Landau, Alexandra Regan Toland, Franziska Werner,

Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism,
Art and Design

Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Urban Planning (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Urban Studies (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
MediaArchitecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
European Urban Studies (english) (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Fine Art (Diploma),
Product Design (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Productdesign (Master of Arts (M.A.)),
Visual Communication (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Visual Communication (Master of Arts (M.A.))

Type of project presentation
Research project

Semester
Summer semester 2019

• Erfurter Straße 39 - Alte Feuerwache

Links
http://postwachstumsstadt.de
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/arc…

Project description

Cities will change rapidly in the next decades. But are we expecting change by disaster - or by (urban) design?

This exhibition ffers insights, discussions and inputs for the furthering of alternative views and planning approaches for urban life after growth. It is motivated by the essential acknowledgement of the devasting effects of city planning based on the consumption of scare resources, political authoritarianism, lacking forms of self-realisation and cultural closure which is dominating today’s urban societies.

While theoretical reflections and many bottom-up projects are having pointed at a potential change of paradigms regarding urban life and urban planning, a further workout of proposals for a new perspective for cities in the light of the amounting challenges is still missing.

With this seminar, the necessary reorientation for thinking, writing, researching and projecting urban life beyond growth is intended to be taken. Students form arts, architecture, and urban studies join forces for creating a learning and cooperation platform for a post-growth Weimar, Thuringia, university, neighborhood etc. Thus, one focus lies on combining creative and scientific techniques to record stories and ideas connected to the idea of a post-growth city.

In doing so, the seminar reflects upon the themes of conference "Postwachstumsstadt" that was held in Weimar the 10./11. of May 2019 and marked the first ever confluence of urban design and degrowth scholars and activists.