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[SoSe 2025] SE Spatial research: topics, concepts and practical applications

#61589 SRITAP B: SE Spatial research: topics, concepts and practical applications

Places and their past

 
Tuesday, 4-6 p.m., Room A 817 (Milan)

30 years ago, Doreen Massey published her essay ‘Places and their pasts’, a pioneering analysis of the relationship between places and their historical contexts. Places, according to Massey, should not be understood as static, but as dynamic products of social practices, historical processes and cultural narratives. Massey calls for the complexity and plurality of places to be recognised and explored instead of reducing them to a single narrative.
 
Precisely this is the aim of the seminar. The essay serves as a starting point from which single statements or hypotheses are drawn, which are then transformed into research designs. The implementation in small groups can for example involve spatial interventions or social experiments. The final goal is to create a diverse catalogue of empirical explorations of the theoretical basis of Doreen Massey's concept of place.
 
The seminar is the PArt B of the module Spatial Research in Theory and Practise and complements the winter semester's IV Research-oriented Project Work. Building on previously acquired knowledge, participants will learn the practical implementation of theory-led research approaches and the communication of research results in the form of short articles. The proposed interdisciplinary perspective of urban research and the impetus to critically analyse the own environment should enable participants to understand Berlin as a diverse and dynamic field of research.

Please note: The course starts on 22 April 2025.
 
Contact: 
Nils Grube / n.grube@isr.tu-berlin.de

[SoSe 2025] Bachelorprojekt 1b/2b - Konkrete Utopien

Bachelorprojekt 2024/25

Konrekte Utopien

Erprobungen alternativer Zukünfte in der Gegenwärtigkeit kapitalistischer Städte

Das Konzept der konkreten Utopien vereint die Ebene der Imagination des zukünftig Möglichen mit deren Erprobung dieser im Hier und Jetzt. Von dieser konzeptionellen Annahme ausgehend strebt das Projekt eine Erkundung gegenwärtiger Praxen alternativer Zukünfte zur Überwindung kapitalistischer Strukturen und der Ermöglichung eines besseren Lebens an. Ziel des Projekts ist es, anhand einer vertieften Betrachtung verschiedener Themenfeldern (Wohnen, Arbeit, Care, Freizeit, Verkehr, etc.)und Analyse von Fallstudien aus dem Berliner Stadtraum eine umfassende Perspektive alternativer Stadtproduktion zu entwickeln, die durch utopisches Denken und deren Konkretisierung durch praktische Erprobung ermöglicht wird. Zentrale Erkenntnisse sollen im Rahmen einer mehrtägigen Exkursion (voraussichtlich nach Wien) reflektiert und zum Ende des Sommersemesters (z.B. in Form eines Magazins oder einer Ausstellung) sichtbar gemacht werden.

[SoSe 2025] MA Critical Urban Policy Studies

MA Critical Urban Policy Studies

Contested participation: scrutinizing planning practices of citizen involvement in light of critical planning theory    


Tuesdays, 16-19 h, room A 816
Prof. Dr. Enrico Gualini


[SoSe 2025] MA Planning as Political Process 2 _ Seminar B

Planning as Political Process 2 Seminar B

Urban development and planning conflicts: beyond confrontation towards transformation 

Tuesdays, 12-14 h, room A816
Prof. Dr. Enrico Gualini

[SoSe 2025] MA Planning as Political Process 2 _ Seminar A

Planning as Political Process 2 Seminar A

Urban Commons / Urban Commoning

Tuesdays, 10-12 h, room A816
Prof. Dr. Enrico Gualini