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The new cross-faculty Master\u2019s focus on SPATIAL STRATEGIES, which combines the MA Integrated Design Research with the MA Architecture, is currently being tested. The new focus is part of the \u00bbUrban Intensities & Ressources<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0thematic cluster of the MA Integrated Design Research <\/a>at KISD. BA Design graduates who are interested in this focus should apply for the MA Integrated Design Research. Interested architecture graduates should contact: marco.hemmerling@th-koeln.de<\/h2>\n

\u00bb[\u2026] politics has the will to solve the problems which plague people,\u00a0and its solutions must somehow be as simple as possible and consist\u00a0at best in a single concrete solution. I gave one example: the problem\u00a0of a graying society crops up, and the \u203asolution\u2039 is the retirement\u00a0home [\u2026]\u00a0while\u00a0actually, the way to process the problem [\u2026] would be to educate everyone else, the rest of society [\u2026] and so\u00a0tackle the problem this way and elsewhere, too.\u00a0There is another term for this alternative to the word \u203asolve\u2039 [\u2026]: it is \u203astrategy.\u2039 [\u2026] So the alternative to direct problem-solving would be\u00a0to introduce strategies, i.e. to adopt packages of measures which in\u00a0various ways bring about the desired objective.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Lucius Burckhardt,\u00a0Who plans the Planning.\u00a0<\/em>Architecture, Politics, and Mankind<\/em>\u00a0(1974)<\/em>, Basel 2020, pp. 30\u201331.<\/p>\n

The cooperative Master\u2019s study focus SPATIAL STRATEGIES refers to the spatial turn \u2013 a turn in cultural studies, discussed since the 1980s, which perceives space as a cultural quantity and seeks to define it as the basis of cultural practices and orders.<\/p>\n

SPATIAL STRATEGIES is concerned not only with material objects, but also with cultural and social processes and practices of use, appropriation, and transformation of the designed environment. Special attention is paid to the exploration and development of the city as a living space \u2013 with its artifacts, its social milieus, diverse cultures, sensory impressions and histories. We will focus on spaces of different sizes and their conditions on a 1:1 scale. Through active design we get to know them and invent new ways to open them up for appropriation processes. We initiate processes that help the actors involved to deal with them and to recognize, understand and use their possibilities.<\/p>\n

SPATIAL STRATEGIES examines the spatial rearrangements brought about by upheavals in global political geography, the proliferation of digital communication technologies, and the global circulation of people and goods. The basic thesis is that through these processes of social transformation, people\u2019s relationships to their spaces are being renegotiated, changed, and rearranged. By analyzing such processes of transformation, the program aims to contribute to a better understanding and explanation of current social conflicts and insecurities, and \u2013 through architecture and design \u2013 to point to alternative designs for public spaces. In the process, bodies, things, spaces and technologies connect in previously unknown ways and open up new potentials for the urban. Exploring these possibilities and rethinking and redesigning the city as an urban commons is an essential component of the program.<\/p>\n

SPATIAL STRATEGIES describes a field in which new tasks arise for designers, architects, and cultural scientists, and in which artists, urban and landscape planners, and other professions are also active in design. The framework is formed by a plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches to spatial research from design and architecture, cultural and media theory, sociology, urban studies and geography. The program systematically combines artistic design with scientific methods.<\/p>\n

The range of possible perspectives encompasses:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Subjective perceptions of space and collective imaginaries of the urban
\n\u2022 Data-driven modes of interaction and new interfaces between bodies, things and spaces
\n\u2022 Security, control and power
\n\u2022 Structures of socio-spatial inequality, exclusion and discipline and their overcoming
\n\u2022 Alternative political spaces and modes of participation in the city and society
\n\u2022 Political architecture and democratic spaces
\n\u2022 Analog\/digital techniques for participatory appropriation and design of urban spaces and processes
\n\u2022 New forms and technologies of mobility
\n\u2022 Interactions between migration and mobility
\n\u2022 Urban practices of sharing and sustainable consumption
\n\u2022 Social utopias for life in the post-fossil city
\n\u2022 Potentials and real experiments of informal urban production
\n\u2022 Participatory approaches to the appropriation of space
\n\u2022 The emergence of new publics and public spaces
\n\u2022 Social cohesion and diversity<\/p>\n

The MA study focus is part of the thematic cluster \u00bbUrban Intensities & Ressources<\/a>\u00ab of the MA program Integrated Design Research<\/a>. Projects and seminars can be carried out in cooperation with students and teachers from the Department of Architecture. Please note the special cooperation offers in the semester program. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Carolin H\u00f6fler (carolin.hoefler@th-koeln.de) or Daniela Meinhardt (daniela.meinhardt@th-koeln.de), head of study program development.<\/p>\n

In transdisciplinary projects, students have the opportunity to develop and implement their research and designs together with non-university research institutions as well as cultural, civic and urban partners. In addition, there is the possibility of transcultural work with international partner universities.<\/p>\n

SPATIAL STRATEGIES is embedded in an attractive scientific environment, which includes the TH research center \u00bbReal-Time City<\/a>\u00ab and the doctoral program NRW with its focus on \u00bbBau und Kultur<\/a>\u00ab (Building and Culture). Master\u2019s graduates in design and architecture have the opportunity to complete a dissertation project in the \u00bbSpace and Culture\u00ab focus area of the NRW Doctoral Academy.<\/p>\n

Core Staff
\n<\/strong>Prof. Marco Hemmerling<\/a> (Faculty of Architecture,\u00a0Computational Design in Architecture)
\nProf. Dr. phil. Carolin H\u00f6fler<\/a> (Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Design Theory and Research)
\nProf. Dr.-Ing. Michel M\u00fcller<\/a> (Faculty of Architecture, Artistic-Experimental Design)
\nProf. Dr.-Ing. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns<\/a> (Faculty of Architecture, Conceptional Architecture and Design)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Image: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel M\u00fcller, DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY<\/em><\/a>, ARoS Triennial,\u00a0Aarhus, Denmark, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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