- Events
- September 22, 2021
22/09/21 - 23/09/21 Urban Design Thesis Presentations
From Egypt and Hamburg to Berlin and Ethiopia. From health infrastructures, life projects and informal living practices to digital infrastructures and cyber feminism - this year's range of research areas and topics promises a wealth of relevant perspectives on the urban.
Over two days, 17 students will present a total of 16 Urban Design Thesis projects. The versatility of the theses at the Urban Design teaching and research programme shows once again that we no longer have the certainty of knowing what a city is. For those who take a closer look, the urban has always been a dynamic object of research and design in whose production we all participate.
The final theses in the Master's programme Urban Design show that this loss can be presented as a win: If we make the city tangible as a process, we can test new forms of agency with others as the city.
The event takes place via Zoom and is open to the HCU community. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to michelle.renz@hcu-hamburg.de.
contributors
Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer
Professor, History and Theory of the City
Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess
Professor, Urban Design
2020/2021
(The) Urban Unknown

Planning in Times of Uncertainty
Klimawandel, Bevölkerungswachstum und dynamisierte Urbanisierungsprozesse, politische und wirtschaftliche Instabilitäten, soziale Umwälzungen oder der Ausbruch von Krankheiten kennzeichnen die Zeit, in der wir leben. Wenngleich das Ausmaß und ihre Folgewirkungen der Krisen ungeahnte Dimensionen erreicht haben, so ist die ‚Krise‘ an sich nichts neues. Neu ist der Verlust sicher geglaubter …