On the occasion of academic international visitors through SMUS at TU Berlin, we are pleased to share with you a schedule of excursions and events taking place in the summer semester 2022. This schedule will be open to our international guests as well as students and academics from Berlin.
31.05.2022
Excursion: Pfaueninsel & Wannsee
Aristocratic & Bourgeois Berlin before/during Industrialization
Organizers: Nina Baur; Tamar Sarkissian
06.06.2022
Excursion: German Parliament, Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Town Center
Urban Reconstruction after WW II
Organizers: Nina Baur; Vanessa Uloth
12.06.2022
Excursion: Mauerpark & Berlin Wall
Berlin during the Cold War
Organizers: Nina Baur; Lena Kursch
14.06.2022
Excursion: A historical walk through Berlin neighborhoods 1: Reformstädtebau & genossenschaftlichen Wohnungsbau der 1920/30er
The excursion will explore the relationship between architecture/urban design and society. In this context, we will also discuss what “urban infrastructure” is and what makes it sustainable. We will select different neighborhoods which were originally planned for different social strata but today are inhabited by varying social groups in order to see how urban design and social class are entwined. In addition, the walks will continue to specify the ethnographic method of “cultural crossreading” which we developed in the context of the so-called CRC 1265 “Harz Trip” in 2019 and which aims at decolonizing social science methodology.
Organizers: Nina Baur; Angela Million; Maria Norkus; Tilla Reuscher
18.06.2022
Excursion: Covid-19 in Poor Neighborhoods 1: Neukölln
A combination of a workshop an city walks will link SMUS Action 2 “Covid-19 in Poor Neighborhoods” (Gabriel Faimau, Elcid Li & Nina Baur) with the projects “Knowledge and Goods” (CRC 1265 A03) and “Apples and Flowers (both Nina Baur & Elmar Kulke). Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the project “Knowledge and Goods” used the example of buying and selling fresh produce to investigate the communicative actions of consumers belonging to different social milieus in four Berlin neighborhoods as well as those of retailers (so-called “intermediaries”) as actors in the commodity chain. We showed both how consumer-retailer-interaction is embedded into the built environment and how it mediates between places (shops, the home), territorial space (the neighborhood) and the space of pathways (commodity chains). Food suppliers also provide a firm infrastructure of neighborhoods and are located in relation to other types of infrastructure (such as other shops, schools, hospital, public administration or traffic nodes). In 2019, also explored advantages and challenges of the ethnographic method of “cultural crossreading” in several city walks. Based on this prior work, we will return to these neighborhoods in explore how they have changed after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organizers: Nina Baur; Gabriel Faimau; Elcid Li; Linda Hering; Tilla Reuscher
21.06.2022
Excursion: Covid-19 in Poor Neighborhoods 2: Marzahn
A combination of a workshop an city walks will link SMUS Action 2 “Covid-19 in Poor Neighborhoods” (Gabriel Faimau, Elcid Li & Nina Baur) with the projects “Knowledge and Goods” (CRC 1265 A03) and “Apples and Flowers (both Nina Baur & Elmar Kulke). Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the project “Knowledge and Goods” used the example of buying and selling fresh produce to investigate the communicative actions of consumers belonging to different social milieus in four Berlin neighborhoods as well as those of retailers (so-called “intermediaries”) as actors in the commodity chain. We showed both how consumer-retailer-interaction is embedded into the built environment and how it mediates between places (shops, the home), territorial space (the neighborhood) and the space of pathways (commodity chains). Food suppliers also provide a firm infrastructure of neighborhoods and are located in relation to other types of infrastructure (such as other shops, schools, hospital, public administration or traffic nodes). In 2019, also explored advantages and challenges of the ethnographic method of “cultural crossreading” in several city walks. Based on this prior work, we will return to these neighborhoods in explore how they have changed after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organizers: Nina Baur; Gabriel Faimau; Elcid Li; Linda Hering ; Tilla Reuscher
05.07.2022
Excursion: A historical walk through Berlin neighborhoods 2: 1980s
The excursion will explore the relationship between architecture/urban design and society. In this context, we will also discuss what “urban infrastructure” is and what makes it sustainable. We will select different neighborhoods which were originally planned for different social strata but today are inhabited by varying social groups in order to see how urban design and social class are entwined. In addition, the walks will continue to specify the ethnographic method of “cultural crossreading” which we developed in the context of the so-called CRC 1265 “Harz Trip” in 2019 and which aims at decolonizing social science methodology.
Organizers: Nina Baur; Angela Million; Maria Norkus; Tilla Reuscher