After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• develop an understanding for open space systems
• analyze and design open spaces and urban planning from the point of view of preserving and promoting biodiversity
• understand the relationship between construction and social processes
• learn to read the site

Site visit, discussion with experts and local stakeholders on designing Animal Spaces & Beastly Places Neuperlach

In the context of the New European Bauhaus project NEBourhoods Neuperlach we will design spaces of cohabitation in the Munich district of Neuperlach. We will work analytically with the pair of terms coined by the geographers Philo and Wilbert, animal spaces (spaces that humans grant to animals, such as zoo, stable, pasture, wilderness) and beastly places (places that are actually used by animals) and apply the planning method Animal-Aided Design. The goal of the project is to identify and design places that allow appropriation by animals and to develop scenarios for possible cohabitation between humans and non-human animals (cohabitation). We will work with local stakeholders from civil society and with partners from the NEBourhoods research project as part of this project. The idea is that results of the design will be implemented in the following year.

• Site visit and site-specific analysis
• Expert inputs
• Evidence-based spatial analysis
• Animal-Aided Design