| Beschreibung |
<p dir="ltr">This seminar explores how design can emerge from a careful and critical engagement with the existing built environment. Using a site in the Thuringian Forest as a case study, the course combines drawing-based design exercises, guest lectures, theoretical inputs, and excursions within a real-world laboratory setting. It investigates how spatial, social, and heritage values shape the built environment and how they can inform future transformation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The seminar is embedded in the broader thematic focus of UmNutzungskultur (cultures of use and reuse) and follows a three-phase structure of collecting, testing, and articulating (Ersammeln – Erproben – Erfassen). These phases structure both analytical and design-oriented work and frame the exploration of contemporary theories and practices of reuse, adaptation, and transformation, with a particular emphasis on rural contexts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Throughout the semester, short and focused drawing exercises, diagrams, and collages alternate with theoretical inputs and excursions, enabling students to gradually develop their own positions. The seminar is practice-oriented, highly visual, and aimed at students of urban studies, planning, architecture, and related disciplines who are interested in experimental, research-informed approaches to the existing built environment.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The seminar is supported by Lilla Kammermann and Frederick Kubin, master's students in urban planning and architecture, who are part of the "Urbane Liga" (a nationwide network of the Ministry of Construction for urban developers under the age of 27) and are conducting joint research with this network focusing on ”reuse culture.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Monday sessions alternate with individual sessions for expert discussions and excursions.</p> |
