Research Studio Kassel Contested

Kassel Contested | Who owns the city?
Research Studio, Prof. Dr. Gabu Heindl

FB06.129

The Research Studio is linked with the ASL Studio: "KASSEL CONTESTED – War, Planning, Love."

Date: bi-weekly Thursdays 10:00 to 13:30

6 ECTS

In collaboration with urban planners and civil society actors, we want to understand and map the most contested spaces in Kassel - with a focus on (post)industrial development sites, arm industry areas and vacant urban space. The following research questions are to complement and deepen the work of mapping of the studio KASSEL CONTESTED: What is the ownership structure of the contested urban space? What are the planning goals at specific locations? What private and non-profit spatial interests are at play? Which roles can urban planning, architecture, self-organized spaces, as well as resistant commonings take on? 
After collectively mapping conflictual spaces students will chose a specific location to research and critically analyse and project its past, present and speculative future economy and spatial development.
 

Teaching language: German/English

Modules: C-2.1-65 (Research Studio 6 ECTS),  C‐2.1‐40, C-2.1-52, C-2.1-65, D-2.1-40, A-1.1-30, B-1.1-31, D-1.1-34, A-1.0-02, A-1.0-10, A-2.0-01, A-2.0-40, C-1.0-10, C-2.0-20, C-2.0-40, C-1.0-40, C-1.1.34, S-1.0-01, S-1.0-03, S-1.0-04, , S-1.0-06, S-2.0-01, S-2.0-03, S-2.0-04, S-2.0-05, S-2.0-06

Moodle link: https://moodle.uni-kassel.de/course/view.php?id=11026

Photo: Gabu Heindl