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Urban Conflict and Contact Zones June 17 - 28, 2013 4 Graduate/postgraduate Dr. B. Lange / M. Bergmann Department of Geography, Georg-Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies
Course Description Urbanity in the 21st century, is characterized by heterogeneity and diversity and a multitude of group and milieu specific appropriation and privatization. Under the condition of rising urban complexities, a basic question gains importance: Under what circumstances can there be meaningful negotiations about conflicts and common grounds in the urban field? One could ask more specific: What are the important zones of contact and conflict? What kind of urban design strategies are appropriate to enhance existing forms of participation and create new ones?
Course Objective The overall aim oft the summer school is to develop an analytical and a problem-solving perspective from the point of view of urban conflict and contact zones. Therefore, we will capitalize from urban studies as well as from design studies. In general, we observe that urban development is considered to be understood as a participatory process. Thereby, very often, social and cultural conflicts arise. Many participatory processes between stakeholders within a city are thus confronted with the central question, what the appropriate social design of a planning process can look like in order to solve site specific problems? We consider obvious conflicts as a fruitful opportunity to engage in a multitude of interventions aiming at solving socio-spatial problems among different social milieus. We will ask how Urban Contact Zones can be analysed as well as how they can be designed? We will develop interdisciplinary solutions and interventions, aiming at enhancing the quality of life as well as the social cohesion in the city.
Required Textbook Reading(s)/ Reference(s) Caglar, Ayse (2007): Rescaling cities, cultural diversity and transnationalism: migrants of Mardin and Essen. Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6), S. 1070-1095. Fincher, Ruth (2012): Planning for cities of diversity, difference and encounter. Australian Planner 40 (1), S. 55-58. Uitermark, Justus/Rossi, Ugo/Houton van, Henk (2005): Reinventing Multiculturalism: Urban Citizenship and the Negotiation of Ethnic Diversity in Amsterdam. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29 (3), S. 622640. Vertovec, Steven (2007): Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6), S. 1024-1054.
Course Requirements/ Evaluation Fluent in English, previous professional experiences and/or first scientific experiences in the field of urban studies and design studies.
Class Schedule Day 1: Thematic introduction, Outline, Getting to know each other, networking Day 2: Reading, discussion. External lecture (Geographies of encounter) Day 3: Workshop: Urban Problems and planning solutions – where do we stand? Day 4: on site excursion. Applying methodologies Day 5: Designing the urban – Urban Design. Solutions, methodologies and cases (workshop) Day 6: Thematic mapping – Design thinking workshop Day 7: Individual working groups Day 8: Discussion of first hand results of the working groups Day 9: Reading, discussion. External lecture (Designing the urban) Day 10: Final discussion
