Vertical Studio KASSEL CONTESTED

Kassel Contested | War, Planning, Love
Vertical Studio Project
Prof. Dr. Gabu Heindl, Guest Prof. Dr. Dagmar Pelger

FB06.506

The Vertical Studio Project KASSEL CONTESTED deals with spatial connections between the arms industry and urban planning decisions, the urban conflicts that arise in the process, and the niches for practices of commoning that are wedged within them. The companies Henschel, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Defence are closely interwoven with Kassel's urban spatial form and the spatial systems that are partly explicitly depicted in it, partly covered over or disappeared. In a projective mapping process, we want to trace the spatial translations and erasures of the connections between the arms industry and urban planning in Kassel, asking: How much vacancy is opening up, how much inaccessible city is this producing? What spatial resources does civil society open up within this powerful complex of politics, business, and war goods production? Which niches or empty spaces can be opened up within the political economization of urban space and put to use against the logics of industry, war and urban development? How much space is left? BA and MA students in A, S and L learn to use cartographic tools as analysis, research and project planning tools to test interdisciplinary planning-design positioning in the context of urban spaces.

Teaching language: German

Date: weekly Thursdays 14:00-18:00

Modules: Pro-1.0-01, Pro-1.2-30, Pro-1.2-31, PRO-2.0-02, PRO-2.2-50, PRO-2.2-30, PRO-2.1-30, PRO-2.1-03, Pro-1.1-02

Accompanying course: Participation in the research studio "Kassel Contested - Stadtkonflikte Kassel" is obligatory for all project participants.

Photo: Gabu Heindl

Moodle link: https://moodle.uni-kassel.de/course/view.php?id=11027