I was told that this set has too many photos, but is there such a thing with this topic? The truth is that I only uploaded a small percentage of the photos I actually took.
If this makes you levitate out of your seat, then take a look at this. You can do a one-year post-grad here, in english. Holy Shiznit. Here is this year’s topic. And an excerpt:
The programme “UN Urbanism” deals with the transformation of cities in so-called crisis regions. Even after the end of the East-West conflict, disputes and the “petite guerre” still characterise world events. Today, organisations such as the UN, but also NGOs and a wide network of privately financed humanitarian aid organisations are confronted by very specific kinds of conflicts and crisis management scenarios. || Particularly where cities are rebuilt, the restoration of the urban infrastructure, the creation of democratic institutions and community building go hand in hand. In this process, international aid organisations create urban structures that, while at first temporary, exercise a considerable influence over the further development of these places. The globally acting organisations thereby initiate transformations in diverse areas of the world that follow the same pattern. || The programme “UN Urbanism”, using Mostar, Bosnia- Herzegovina and Kabul, Afghanistan as examples, will examine the phenomena of this process of urbanisation and devote itself to, among others, the following questions: What role do international parties have to play in the reconstruction of “post-war cities”? What planning ideas and models and normative concepts of cities, civil society and public life do they bring with them? What kind of spatial models do these global interventions adopt, and what form do they take in their individual, local manifestations? How can urban planning with the participation of international parties help limit existing divisions and differences? || The Kolleg sees the search for design solutions within the framework of the UN Urbanisation as much a part of the solution strategy as the development of lasting urban processes after the departure of UN troops. In practice, prototypical concepts will be developed for selected sites.
And for next year:
EU Urbanism || “Back to Europe” is a formula with symbolic significance: For cities in Eastern Europe, Europeisation is a cultural code that, at the same time, represents a process of normalisation. Those countries that promoted this change most successfully are now classified as “ordinary European countries”. || Nevertheless, Europeisation is much less a return to Europe than a reorientation within a new geography: The EU expansion was, for the new members, followed by alignment to a complex institutional, legal and economic policy. || The “EU Urbanism” programme will engage with the consequences particular to this process of alignment and pursue, among others, the following questions: How does the EU integration process influence cities and urban culture? In what way do the traditional structures and ideas of the “European city” relate to the current urban transformation processes? Can we identify new models for the European city in, for example, Sofia or Krakow?
Just makes you all wet and sticky, doesn’t it?
