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  Spatial Commons (15) - Berlin, where do we stand?

  Fachtag zum Zustand der kommunalen Stadtentwicklung und des Berliner (Neu)Baus

  Teaching

  Das Fachgebiet für Städtebau und Urbanisierung (CUD), TU Berlin, das Fachgebiet für Architektur Stadt Ökonomie, Universität Kassel, und die Gastdozentur für Städtebau, Universität der Künste Berlin, bearbeiten in einem interdisziplinären kooperativen Lehrforschungsformat drängende Fragen der Berliner Stadt und (Neu)Bauentwicklung. Anhand von ‚Kernbohrungen’ an drei wichtigen Berliner Stadtentwicklungs-/ (Neu)Bauvorhaben wollen wir über Werkzeuge und Instrumente der gemeinwohlorientierten Planung diskutieren. Wir möchten den Status Quo mit zukünftigen Fragestellungen und Möglichkeiten abgleichen und zukunftsfähige Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten aufzeigen. Die Rolle der Kommune ist hier, den Interessenausgleich herzustellen und möglichst zügig eine integrative, diverse und partizipative Entwicklung.

  In unserer Arbeit betrachten wir durch kommunale Akteur*innen entwickelte Prozesse, aber auch Prozesse in denen kommunale Akteur*innen die Rahmenprozesse in Richtung von mehr Teilhabe und Partizipation vorgeben (wollen). Der kritische Blick richtet sich auf Mitgestaltung durch Nutzer*innen und Betroffene einerseits der Prozesse, aber auch der Räume und Nutzungen, die entstehen und möglichst langfristig gemeinwohlorientiert erhalten bleiben, sowie ökonomisch und bezüglich der öffentlichen Belange tragfähig sein sollen.

  In diesem Spannungsfeld wollen wir diskutieren:

  > Wie kann Wohnbau sowohl in Struktur als auch in Fördermöglichkeiten flexibel gedacht werden und gleichzeitig Gemeinschaft und ein Ankommen und Bleiben ermöglichen?

  > Wie können gemeinschaftliche und soziale Einrichtungen mitgedacht, in Regelwerke übersetzt und finanziert werden?

  > Was bedeutet Freiraum und Erdgeschoßprogrammierung auf sozialer und ökologischer Ebene?

  > Was heißt Diversität und wie können sich Räume dafür öffnen lassen?

  > Wie kann Gewerbe, Soziales, Kultur und Wohnen zusammen gedacht werden um Nachbarschaften inklusiv und sozial zu entwickeln?

  > Wie können in den verschiedenen Bezirken vorhandene Instrumente so eingesetzt werden, dass Bauen auch unter Zeitdruck eine breite Beteiligung erfährt?

  WANN?

  Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2022, 15h00 – 18h00

  WO?

  Institut für Architektur TU Berlin (Forum im Erdgeschoss), Straße des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin / U-Bahnhof Ernst Reuter Platz

  WER?

  Kooperationspartner*innen: Mathias Heyden, Bürger*innenbeteiligung & Vernetzung, AKS Gemeinwohl verwaltungsintern, Abt. Bauen, Planen, Kooperative Stadtentwicklung, Bezirksamt Friedrichshain Kreuzberg / Magnus Hengge und Konrad Braun, LokalBau-Team, im Auftrag des Bezirksamts Friedrichshain Kreuzberg / Charlotte Weber, ASUM GmbH, vom Bezirksamt Friedrichshain Kreuzberg beauftragt mit „Beteiligungsverfahren zum integrativen Quartierszentrum Franz-Künstler-Straße“ /  Leonardo Freitag, Bezirksamt Mitte, Stadtentwicklungsamt – verbindliche Bauleitplanung/ Josephine Templin-Kobayashi, Bezirksamt Mitte, Stadtentwicklungsamt – Sanierungsverwaltungsstelle / Jan Schlaffke,  Bezirksamt Mitte, Stadtentwicklungsamt – Sanierungsverwaltungsstelle/ Roland Krebs, Lena Diete, superwien, Architekt*innen, Masterplan Neues Zentrum Hohenschönhausen / Monika Kuhnert, Leiterin des städtebaulichen Verfahrens Neues Zentrum Hohenschönhausen / Mike Müller, Bürgerverein Neu-Hohenschönhausen

  Weitere Gäste: Florian Schmidt, Stadtrat/Dezernent Abt. Bauen, Planen, Kooperative Stadtentwicklung, BA Friedrichshain Kreuzberg / Rainer Johann, Projektleiter Wohnungsneubau, HOWOGE Neu- Hohenschönhausen /

  Unsere jahrelange Erfahrung in Kooperationsprojekten mit der Berliner Planung hat gezeigt, dass wir als Universität in unserer Auseinandersetzung mit konkreten Orten und den dortigen Prozessen wichtige Erkenntnisse an die Praxis zurückgeben und diese in einen fruchtbaren Austausch bringen können. Auch aus der Geschichte Berlins und den historischen Erfahrungen bezüglich oben genannter Fragen wollen wir lernen und unser Wissen an Sie weitergeben. Wir möchten Sie herzlich dazu einladen, mit uns zu diskutieren.

  Prof. Jörg Stollmann, Anna Heilgemeir, Julia Köpper, Roberta Burghardt, Fachgebiet für Städtebau und Urbanisierung, TU Berlin
  Prof. Dr. Gabu Heindl, Iva Marčetić, Nina Manz, Florine Schüschke, Fachgebiet Architektur Stadt Ökonomie Universität Kassel
  Dr. Dagmar Pelger, Gastdozentur für Städtebau, UdK, Berlin
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  Common Waste

  Common Resource

  Teaching

  6 ECTS Research Seminar SS2023, X-tutorial Chair For Urban Design And Urbanization (CUD) TU Berlin
  ABOUT SEMINAR

  context

  While our concept of WASTE keeps human systems tidy, its treatment illustrates human and interspecies hierarchies globally. To become a tradeable energy source, waste undergoes massive speculation and irreversible physical transformation of its fraction of organic carbon, an element essential to Life.

  method

  We invite students of all backgrounds to come together in this interdisciplinary think tank and investigate the political and economical implications of our current organic waste system. Through our combined knowledge and expertise and fueled by curiosity, we will develop experimental counter-strategies in local resource treatment and nurture our sensibility towards the natural motion of organic matter.

  location

  Aging panel housing is prevalent throughout Berlin and makes up a large fraction of housing in the densest neighborhoods. We focus our efforts on four adjacent courtyards in a post-socialist neighbourhood North of Berlin Ostbahnhof as a case study for potential city-wide application.

  Tutors: Arina Rahma, Stefan Dorn, Dali Dardzhaniya
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Stollmann
  Info and questions: dali(at)studiopress.ch

  Research Seminar
  6 ECTS
  MA students of all backgrounds from TU, HU, FU, and Charité

  Teaching day / time / place
  Mondays, 12:00-2:00 pm
  Room: A806, VIII floor
  Architekturgebäude, TU Berlin, map: Str. des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin

  First meeting
  24.04.2023, location TBA via email

  Language: English
  Participants: 15

  Application
  via application form on tusca7.org or email dali(at)studiopress.ch
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  Thresholds as Design Device

  Seminar

  Teaching

  Due to their inherent ambivaleoce, threshold spaces are a difficult phenomenon to grasp, they separate and connect at the same time. They are spaces of transition, within the architectural to the urban to the geographical scale. From the cushion on the win­dow sill, to the doorstep, walkways, steps, foyers, arcades, alleys, bridges, squares or zones between two neighbourhoods.
  As the city gets increasingly distributed to private ownership, spaces that are beyond the control of ownership and use and that can be variously appropriated are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We start with the hypothesis that they are spaces that are often not focused on by those who have power, sovereignty of inter­pretation and economic interest within urban planning processes which is why they offer space for all those people and uses that are not considered in the economically exploitable dty. Therefore, they are deeply urban and necessary for a common good orien­ted dty that is more oriented towards the needs of all than the profit of a few.
  Within the seminar we will use literature to get an overview of the spectrum and definition of threshold spaces. We will examine the category of planned threshold spaces using various examples within Berlin through the means of mapping. By doing so, we will analyse the spatial conditions in the context of use, appropriation and the underlying sets of rules. With the help of this glossary of interstices we have created, we will reflect on our actions as pl­anners. We will discuss how the identified spatial qualities can be used with more subtlety as part of our design vocabulary, what arguments can be used to negotiate them with commissf oners and what planning tools can be used to inscribe them in the fabric of the city.

  First session: Tuesday, 25.04.23 at 1Oam (every second week)
  Registration via MOSES.
  Supervision: Julia Köpper
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  Schöner Schöneberg? Community Design Center | PiV

  MA-Studio

  Teaching

  Societal challenges such as the climate emergency, the scarcity of resources and an increasingly divided society make it clear that we need new approaches to planning and building in cities and beyond. It is also becoming apparent that solutions can only be effective in the long term if supported by civil society requiring new forms of participation and planning culture. The potential of transdisciplinary cooperation currently needs to be exploited. With the CDC, TU Berlin plans to establish a first contact point for innovative planning processes supported by civil society inspired by the US American model of the Community Design Centre. Projects hitherto carried out repeatedly by individual departments will thus have a fixed framework at the Institute of Architecture. The CDC makes long-term cooperation between academic and non-academic actors possible beyond one semester. In addition to the content-related work on projects, the centre also strengthens student initiatives in teaching and secures the long-term focus of academic staff.
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  Schöner Schöneberg? Common space for urban scenes, collectives and people in need

  MA-Studio

  Teaching

  The diversity of Berlin-Schöneberg is not only reflected in the people that occupy its streets but also in its architecture: complex images of today’s neighborhood is characterised by fragmented “Berlin Block” into different typologies, creating spaces that are occupied by different types of communities, collectives and overlapping scenes. While the area is currently under tremendous changes due to new developments, in the studio “Schöner Schönberg” we will investigate how this found diversity can be used and considered for the future planning of the common spacers.
  The starting point for our studio is the previously initiated idea to design three neighborhood centers in the central area of Schöneberg-Nord, projects that are currently pending for several reasons. We will continue this idea, with the approach of developing projects with existing human and material resources. We will work on the side with existing communities and civil society organisations while working with existing building structures and renewable materials.

  
Schöner Schöneberg is a collaborative studio between the chairs CUD and NBL with integrated and cooperative design studios Städtebau I (CUD) and Hochbau I (NBL). The discussion about a community design center at the IfA will be further developed and discussed here. Studio is thought in English with the necessary knowledge of German.

  Supervision:
  Prof. Jörg Stollmann | Eike Roswag-Klinge
  WM Veljko Markovic | Anna Heilgemeir | Matthew Crabbe | Nina Pawlicki
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  Nature, Space and Biopolitics

  Understanding the changing conversation regime in planetary urbanism

  Teaching

  lt has almost become trite to rehearse, as many int­roductions do, the extreme crisis that human and en­vironrnent relations face today. Especially in discour­ses on the Anthropocene and nature conservation, it is common knowledge that exploitation of natural re­sources has led to a destabilising climate. Or, that the mass extinction of nonhuman species can be traced to planetary processes of urbanisation. Arguably, we have become saturated in these abstractions to the poi nt that repeating them runs the risk of desensitizing us to the challenges ahead. So, in this research seminar lefs together ask another question, one that takes se­riously the politics, practices, technologies, and power involved in governing this human-environment crisis and ask: in what ways are the interactions between hu­mans and nonhumans regulated in urban spaces, and, how does such a conservation regime, as we refer to it, affect the ways in which (more-than-human) spaces are constituted, planned, desig ned, and evolve in urban processes?
  Using multiscaler mapping you will consider how Ber­lin based actors, power asymmetries, technologies, spaces, and conservation practices that entangled with international networks, NGO agencies and goals that together constitute, what we see as a changing conser­vation regime, a regime that aims to regulate nature­culture interactions with its roots in empire, colonia­lism and capitalism.

  Supervision: Jamie Scott Baxter
  When/Where: Tuesday 9-12AM | BH-N 230
  6 ECTS
  For: MA Urban Design, BA Architecture (5th & 6th semester)
  ISIS course: https://isis.tu-berlin.de/enrol/index.php?id=34430
  Bild: Botanical Garden Berlin
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  Spatial Commons (15) - Berlin, where do we stand?

  Stadtkonflikte / Prof. Dr. Gabu Heindl

  Teaching

  Herzliche einladung zum vortrag “stadtkonflikte” von prof. dr. gabu heindl, architektin aus wien und leiterin des fachgebiets architektur stadt ökonomie der universität kassel

  am 10.11. im café kubik, 13 uhr

  3.og, hardenbergstrasse 33

  im rahmen des koop-lehrforschungsformats BERLIN, WHERE DO WE STAND? zwischen dem cud tu berlin, der gastdozentur städtebau udk berlin und dem fg architektur stadt ökonomie  … kommt vorbei!
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  Enclaves and Exclaves

  Investigating the sociospatial relationships between Botanical Gardens and the City in Berlin.

  Teaching

  Cities and their institutions are changing to cope with society’s accelerated transformation and emerging needs in this time of socio-environmental crisis. The Berlin Botanical Gardens (Bo) presents an excellent case to study the intersection of Berlin’s cultural, green, and knowledge spaces and how they are re-figuring in relation to two such transformative processes at a planetary scale: human-induced climate change and decolonisation.

  Berlin Botanical Gardens comprise a 43-hectare green enclave space in Berlin’s Steglitz-Zehlendorf, it is a publicly accessible archive and museum space storing and displaying a collection of 20,000 plant species, and it is a globally networked space of scientific knowledge production and circulation on botany and biodiversity research. Our initial research in collaboration with urban design and sociology students at TU Berlin (SoSe 2021) has revealed how urban governance, planning, and policy regimes such as heritage protection shape and restrict the capacity for such spaces to change. Using hybrid mapping and qualitative methods including semi-structured interviews, we looked at the contradictions that exist between, on one hand, practices of conservation which underpin the botanic gardens and urban planning more generally, and on the other, the desire to adapt to climate change and address coloniality which in subtle ways continues to shape how knowledge and space are co-produce at the gardens today.

  Together in the seminar, we want to continue our research to look more closely at the relations and intersection of the three spaces that constitute Berlin Botanic Gardens: green space, cultural spaces, and spaces of knowledge, at multiple scales: organisational, urban, and trans-local and specifically at how borders are produced and transgressed by flows of human and nonhuman life. You will learn advanced sociospatial qualitative research methods and will be exposed to critical sociospatial theory being developed at TU Berlin’s SFB 1265 “Re-figuration of Spaces” to hone your analytical skills for application to urban research and what we call, critical spatial design.

  Team: Jamie-Scott Baxter (jamiescottbaxter@me.com), Séverine Marguin (severine.marguin@tu-berlin.de), Jörg Stollmann

  Tuesdays on site from 9:00 until 12:30 or 15:00.

  First session on Tuesday 18th at BH-N 230

  Address:
  SFB 1265 “Re-figuration of Spaces”, Building BH-N, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin, Second floor, Room number: 230.
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  Spatial Games

  Auf dem Weg zu einer inklusiveren Planungspraxis

  Teaching

  Im nächsten Sommer wird Berlin Gastgeber der Special Olympic World Games 2023, der weltweit inklusivsten Veranstaltung für Kinder und Erwachsene mit geistiger Behinderung. Die Eröffnungsfeier und die Veranstaltungen werden im Olympiapark Berlin stattfinden, einem Komplex aus Gebäuden, Sportanlagen und Parks, der für die Olympischen Spiele 1936 errichtet wurde. Die Anlage, die im Rahmen der politischen Propaganda für den „perfekten Menschen“ entworfen wurde, spiegelt noch immer den exklusiven Geist der Vergangenheit wider. In der Nähe befindet sich ebenfalls Le Corbusiers Unité d‘habitation von Berlin (Interbau 1957) mit der berühmten Fassadengravur des Modulor. Diesen Namen gab Le Corbusier dem geschätzten Durchschnittsmenschen, der als Maß aller Dinge dienen sollte. Das architektonische Gefüge um den Olympiapark mit seinen Achsen, Rastern, Ordnungen und Modulen kontrastiert stark mit der Idee der inklusiven Sportspiele, räumlich und gedanklich.
  Im Studio „Spatial Games“ werden wir diese Kontraste als Ausgangspunkt nutzen. Die Idee ist nicht nur, inklusive Sportanlagen zu entwerfen, die für die bevorstehenden Spiele notwendig sind – mittels Theorien von Queering und Cripping wird das Studio ebenfalls versuchen, diesen Bereich als repräsentativen Raum der Inklusion neu zu gestalten.

  Team CUD: Prof. Jörg Stollmann, WM Veljko Marković, LA Katrin Schömer, TT Leonie Hartung & Anna Barwanietz

  Erste Veranstaltung: 21.10. – 11h – A815

  (fig: 1) Image Credits: Sigrid Grajek as Coco Lorès; Image Source: Schwules Museum Ausstellung-of lesbian trans* gays and other normalities 2) Image Credits: Werk Und Zeit 1/1980; Image Source: 10 Jahre nach der IBA’87 Cataloge 3) Image Credits: Henry Dreyfuss - The measure of man; Image Source: Architectural Graphic Standards 1981)

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  Spatial Commons (15) - Berlin, where do we stand?

  Interventionist core drillings on current „common good-oriented“ urban development.

  Teaching

  The studio is conceptualized as an urban design study on the status of Berlin‘s new development in 2022. The mission of the studio „Berlin, where do we stand?“ is to convey the range of tasks and planning tools in the field of urban design on the basis of different current urban development projects in Berlin. These tools are scrutinized with regard to their meaningfulness for an urban development in the interest of the common good.

  In cooperation between the Department of Urban Development UdK, the Department of Building Economics University of Kassel and the CUD of the TU Berlin, we will investigate three case studies in Berlin and conduct urban design, programmatic as well as systemic scenarios with different actors of Berlin urban development on new housing projects.

  The three case studies differ in terms of their location within Berlin (center, ring, periphery), their planning statuses, ownership structures and the role of the respective cooperation partners in the planning process. On the basis of these examples, we would like to discuss the aims, conflicts, agencies as well as the tools for implementing and permanently safeguarding a common good oriented reproduction of the city. What room for maneuver does the design have? What are levers for spatial, systemic and programmatic parameters and what planning and design tools are available to implement them?

  In joint discussion formats between the university, the administration and intermediary planners, the potentials and limits of the individual tools are to be discussed.

  Cooperation partners:  Bezirksamt Berlin Mitte, Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg & LokalBau, Bezirksamt Lichtenberg & superwien.

  Team CUD: Prof. Jörg Stollmann, Anna Heilgemeir, Julia Köpper

  First session: 13.10. 10h A053

  Introduction: 13.10. 14h Online

  Zoom-Meeting
  https://tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/66252699176?pwd=cFk4UzFMaEZMN3VNVWJqWmZxdzdpUT09

  Meeting-ID: 662 5269 9176
  Kenncode: 819750

  Enrollment: MOSES Modul #60778 Urban Design Studio
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  Spatial Commons (15) - Berlin, where do we stand?

  Conference on the current development of new housing construction in Berlin

  Teaching

  Who builds for whom? Who is skimming off the top? Who bears the profits and losses of Berlin‘s current new building development? And what is our role as planners to influence this? How can we exchange what we produce at the university with the city?

  Parallel to the design and research work of the studio „Berlin, where do we stand?“ we want to conceive and organize a transdisciplinary conference on Berlin‘s current new building development in the seminar. In the context of the conference, the results of the cooperation around the studio „Berlin, where do we stand?“ will be presented to a larger public (professionals and political), qualities of a planning oriented towards the common good will be revealed, and questions and approaches to solutions of implementation will be discussed.

  In the conception of the conference it is a matter of naming and addressing important urban political and professional actors, of conceiving formats and topic clusters that advance the exchange between politics, administration and planners, as well as of documenting the jointly produced knowledge and thinking about suitable formats of communication.

  The seminar will be held accompanying the Studio „Spatial Commons (15) – Berlin, where do we stand?“ but attendance of the studio is not obligatory for participation in the seminar.

  Team CUD: Prof. Jörg Stollmann, Roberta Burghardt, Anna Heilgemeir, Julia Köpper

  First session: 25.11. 10h A808

  Introduction: 13.10. 14h Online

  Zoom-Meeting
  https://tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/66252699176?pwd=cFk4UzFMaEZMN3VNVWJqWmZxdzdpUT09

  Meeting-ID: 662 5269 9176
  Kenncode: 819750

  Enrollment: MOSES Modul #60491: Aspekte zeitgenössischer Stadtentwicklungspolitik
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  Spatial Commons (14) – Entangled Communities Ostbahnhof

  Midterms

  Teaching

  16.06.2022 | A815

  The design studio ‘Entangled Communities Ostbahnhof’ is looking for visions of a new neighbourhood in the area around Ostbahnhof, oriented towards the common good and with a more-than human approach. To achieve this we will explore the interests of existing actors and possible future communities in various scenarios in order to facilitate a community-oriented and empowering planning and design. The community concept is expanded by a more-than-human urbanism perspective with the objective to include non-human actors who live on site, to understand and to incorporate their needs into the design concepts.

  We ask what qualities on a spatial, organisational, ecological, economic and social level are needed by the different human and non-human actors and how these can be combined in a vision for a neighbourhood around the Ostbahnhof?

  We will discuss our approach with the following guests:

  EDDA OSTERTAG (LANDSCHAFTSARCHITEKTIN)
  MATHIAS HEYDEN (BEZIRK F´HAIN/X-BERG)
  KONRAD BRAUN (LOKALBAU)
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  Spatial Commons (14) – Entangled Communities Ostbahnhof [Studio]

  Course Description

  Teaching

  Open Studio: Friday, 08.04.22 | 10 Uhr | Zoom

  Introduction: Thursday, 21.04.22 | 10 Uhr

  The area around Ostbahnhof between Spree and Karl-Marx-Allee is a patchwork of different urban fragments. Due to various current plans, major urban development changes are expected around the Ostbahnhof in the coming years.

  The design studio ‘Entangled Communities Ostbahnhof’ is looking for visions of a new neighbourhood oriented towards the common good and mixed uses. To achieve this we will explore the interests of existing actors and possible future communities in various scenarios in order to facilitate a community-oriented and empowering planning and design. The community concept will be expanded by a more-than-human urbanism perspective and deepened in the accompanying PiV. The objective is to include non-human actors who live on site, to understand and to incorporate their needs into the design concepts.

  We ask what qualities on a spatial, organisational, ecological, economic and social level are needed by the different human and non-human actors and how these can be combined in a vision for a neighbourhood around the Ostbahnhof?

  According to the principle “No Design without Community – No Community without Design”, the designs will serve as a base to discuss a further development process with the district and interested actors and communities. We will exchange ideas with LokalBau and the Bezirksamt F’Hain/X’Berg and our designs will build on and challenge their envisaged scenarios for the area.

  The PiV focusses on multi-species cohabitation in order to apply it in analysis and design. It will be conducted by architect Jamie Baxter (BUA) and urban ecologist Dr. Tanja Straka (Institute for Ecology). The Studio and PiV are held in English. The PiV is obligatory for the participants of the studio.

  Participants: 16 Städtebau I + 4 Städtebau II

  MA Architektur: Städtebau I (12 LP incl. PiV)
  MA Architektur: Städtebau II (12 LP incl. PiV)
  + MA Architektur: städtebauliche Vertiefung (9 LP)
  MA UD Urban Design – Projekt Architektur (12 LP)

  Anmeldung über MOSES.

  Team: Julia Köpper & Jamie Baxter (LA)