During the one-day workshop, speakers such as Arunava Dasgupta, Head of the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Sujan Chitrakar, Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Center for Art and Design at Kathmandu University, Prof. Ulrike Gerhard from the Institute of Geography and Prof. Christiane Brosius, Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies will engage with students from the Graduate Programme at the Cluster "Asia and Europe".
The theme of the workshop, “Open Access? The city as laboratory, studio, archive”, focuses on the ways in which research on cities and urban change can facilitate stronger interdisciplinary ties across academic institutions, also with respect to research-based teaching. It addresses themes such as urban design for ‘open cities’ of the 21st century, the role of art practice in and about the city, or (in)tangible cultural heritage in rapidly changing urban environs. Other themes to be considered are in what way the city can be ‘archived’ and material be produced for open access to generate transdisciplinary discussions, how to study urban responses to natural and man-made crises like earthquakes and climate change, social inequality, migration and cultural diversity.
The workshop takes place on June 29 at the Karl Jaspers Center for Transcultural Studies. It is funded by the Forum Urban Spaces (ForUS), the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" and Field of Focus 4.
If you are interested in the workshop, please contact Ina Buchholz at buchholz@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de.
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