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- October 19, 2023
Urban Design Project I 2023/24. Liminal Cities: Urban Life in-between
The ongoing privatisation of space, fulfilling capitalist interests, and the fast-paced nature of urban development calls for alternative ways of designing our cities, to still being able to creating spaces for the common good: designing from and for the cracks, interspaces, glitches, undergrounds, spaces of the informal, spaces of resistance and alliance...
Against this dense thematic background, UDP1 turns to the lived reality of urban everyday life and the multiple tensions – social and political, temporal and spatial – that arise from unresolved situations of urban in-betweenness. We will seek out traces of historic change, explore sites and places, examine institutional frameworks and map networks of actors and everyday practices that re-negotiate the limits of the urban in-between. We will focus on liminal sites across recreation, education, production and reproduction: class rooms and playgrounds, street festivities and concerts, refugee shelters and prison complexes, harbours and hotels, factories and families. How does urban everyday life emerge, at these and other sites, as in-between, suspended between the old and the new? Who are the actors that are able to define and reshape the contours of the urban in-between? Who is absent or even excluded? What are the political, spatial and temporal tensions that are produced at these sites and how do actors address and negotiate them?
Donnerstags 10:15- 12:45 Uhr
HVP-3.101/ Projektraum III
Photo: Gözde Sarlak-Krämer
contributors
Prof. Dr. Regula Valérie Burri
Professor, Science and Technology Studies
M.Sc. Britta Arends
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer
Professor, History and Theory of the City
Prof. Dr. Hanna Göbel
Acting Professor, Urban Anthropology and Ethnographic Methods
Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess
Professor, Urban Design
Yuan Chang (Danny) Yang
Student Assistant, Tutor
2023/2024
Current annual theme
Liminal Cities
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Urban Life In-between
Faced by a multiplicity of global crises, urban life today has reached a tipping point. Most pressingly, an accelerating climate catastrophe calls for feasible social and ecological alternatives beyond western capitalist hegemony and its dependence on profit-oriented production and excessive mass consumption. Equally, the resurgence of military conflict in and beyond Europe combined with the …