Field Trips in Public Space #3

Identity and Conflict Culture in Public Space

Following the successful completion and return of the expedition teams in the Summer Semester 2016 from Madrid and Rome, the “Field Trips in Public Space” format enters its second round.

In the Summer Semester 2017, students from both degree programs will have the opportunity to develop their own expedition formats and carry them out over the summer as part of a funded program. The focus of the semester is the research field “Identity and Conflict Culture in Public Space.” It examines how immigration is expressed in public space and how cities respond to it.

The explicit focus in Summer Semester 2017 is on planning, social/cultural, political, or economic approaches, conceptual models, actors, and frameworks that view public space in the context of immigration, identity, and conflict culture. Teams of up to three students will form an expedition team, which will be sent on a discovery journey during the semester. Possible destinations for these expeditions include: Copenhagen, Malmö, Duisburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade, Warsaw, Bucharest, Sofia, Plovdiv, Telfs, Brussels, Barcelona… These journeys are initiated, prepared, and funded through the future.lab knowledge platform “Public Space.”

The course is structured into three units – preparation, execution of the expedition, and evaluation. Exact dates will be announced later.

On the blog of the “Public Space” knowledge platform, projects and research trips from the course “Field Trips in Public Space 2 – Identity and Conflict Culture in Public Space” can be followed live, and feedback on the current status of the expeditions can be provided in the form of comments.