UD-M-101-100 Urban Design Project 1:Urgent Matter(s). Taking care of urban futures.

Instructors: Isabella Biermann; Prof. Dr. Ingrid Breckner; Nina Fräser; Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer; Prof. Bernd Kniess; Gözde Sarlak-Krämer; Anais Julia Alessandra Ursula Wiedenhöfer; Prof. Dr. Kathrin Wildner

Event type: Project

Org-unit: Urban Design

Displayed in timetable as: UD: Project 1

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Hours per week: 3

Location: Hamburg

Language of instruction: German

Min. | Max. participants: - | 30

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Beschreibung:
Not only in terms of housing types available, there is a discrepancy between what is offered and what is needed, and this discrepancy is growing (Holm et al. 2018). There are discrepancies in terms of flat sizes and floor plans, affordability and location.
And there is the tendency that the activities and practices traditionally located and acted out in homes are relocated, veraushäusigt, removed from our own or rented four walls: 'women's work, relocation of the elderly and the sick in old people's homes and hospitals, accommodation of children in kindergartens and schools or the waiver of children all together, the development of technical and social infrastructures and of personalized services, the increasing mobility for leisure activities, the development of the hotel and restaurant industry as well as leisure facilities, and in general the increasing market- and state-driven organization of ever more areas of life - all this has resulted in a situation in which nobody inevitably relies on their own flat' (Häußermann and Siebel 2000: 14)
Despite the realisation that housing and dwelling could be organized in totally different ways - indeed, in very different spatial typologies - people hold on to their desire for their own home: their living rooms, bed rooms, kitchens and bathrooms, their imagined privacy, their decorations, their domestic behaviour (see Hannemann 2014: 37).
In the course of the academic year 2018/19, Urban Design students and staff will be concerned with the family and its materialization in floor plans and property relations, with lived spatial practices and household everyday life, with the always gendered production of space and the representation of social order in the built environment. We will engage with data and preconceptions, urban and rural differences, feminism and politics, ideologies and demographics, unpacking relationalities and tendencies to shed light on an issue that concerns literally every body.