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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer; Dr. Hanna Katharina Göbel; Prof. Dr. Johanna Hoerning; Prof. Bernd Kniess; Antonia Lembcke; Lisa Marie Zander
Event type:
Project
Org-unit: Urban Design
Displayed in timetable as:
UD: Project 1
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
3,5
Location:
Hamburg
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Grading:
Beschreibung:
Climate change, global population growth and dynamic urbanization processes, political and economic instabilities, social upheavals, and the outbreak of diseases characterize the times we are living in. Although the extent and consequences of the crises have reached unimagined dimensions, the 'crisis' itself is nothing new. What is new is the loss of certainties that were believed to be certain in an increasingly complex, interwoven world. On the one hand, social and spatial transformations increase the anxieties of urban citizens, leading to constant conflicts and tensions; on the other hand, these social and spatial transformations allow new connections between human and non-human actors that could inspire alternative future urban narratives. It is precisely the ideas and imaginations of the future that form an "inexhaustible reservoir of insecurity" (Nowotny 2016). But they are also an incentive to explore the present conditions, to learn from past experiences, and to produce new knowledge. Thus, uncertainty can be interpreted as a lens for illuminating constitutive, complex, and powerful processes. Uncertainty is a perspective for analyzing economic, political and socio-cultural developments, and can equally be a productive force in the redesign of urban living conditions. At this point, urban researchers and designers are confronted with the question of how they can constructively deal with uncertainty to (re-)design "cities as sites of potentiality" (Simone 2016).
With this annual theme, we will concentrate on Hamburg's city center, which has undergone many transformations in recent decades. Topics, sites, and debates such as consumption, leisure, tourism, housing, and public space will be the focus of the research projects.
UDP1 will explore the notions of uncertainty in the inner city of Hamburg through qualitative methods, inventories of urban places, and analyses through material conditions, political programs, social practices, and agencies.
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