Making sense of a place through narratives is a wonderful task for environmental historians. In intensive dialogues with people and places, this course will introduce you to Vienna, former imperial capital surrounded by forests and vineyards and shaped by its struggle with a powerful alpine river, the upper Danube. This course shall empower you to understand such ‚nature’s metropolises‘ through environmental history. We will closely read and intensively debate texts that prepare you for a one-week field trip and to complete your tasks on site, both individually and in groups. In Vienna, we will then search and, with the help of experts from a wide range of professions and disciplines, read the traces of several historical transformations of Vienna during the last two millennia, from times of war and violence, but also from periods of peace, new beginnings and societal progress. This common journey through a city and its history shall broaden our perspective, let us think in new ways about urban life and how it can be transformed today, into feasible futures, aware of its global dependence from other humans, resources and ecologies.
- Teacher: Elisa Lerchbaum
- Teacher: Jonatan Palmblad
- Teacher: Martin Schmid
- Teacher: Enikö d' Errigo
- Teacher: Susanne Unger
- Teacher: Lena Engel
- Teacher: Jonatan Palmblad
The Exhibition Studio invites students to take part in
individual creative projects and a series of skills workshops leading up to a
collective exhibition based on Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island.
Students are invited to attend the “One Book – Many Worlds” project‘s lectures offered at the RCC’s Lunchtime Colloquium throughout the semester. For other events offered in the project „One Book – Many Worlds: Munich reads Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh“, please visit the project website.
- Teacher: Franziska Bax
- Teacher: Hanna Straß-Senol
- Teacher: Uwe Lübken