After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the frame condition of different planning cultures, to identify complex spatial problems in dynamic border landscapes in Europe, to develop solutions based on hypotheses and to reflect in a critical way.
"Europe’s border spaces will be the focus of aspiring planners, designers and researchers at Berlin Summer School 2020, from the 8th to the 15th of May, which will take place within the framework of Germany’s National Urban Development Policy as a contribution to the German EU Presidency with national and European schools of planning. This exchange between the planning schools and the Federal Ministry for Building is a already long-standing tradition in Germany and is supported as a key objective of the German EU Presidency.
European integration is a matter of great controversy, with border issues taking center stage in cities and villages across all of Europe. Although green border landscapes along national territories shape the image of European border facilities, the cities themselves, regardless of their location, represent the battlegrounds and drivers of a dualistic trend within processes to both dissolve and draw borders. Growing isolationist tendencies – partially coupled with new border fortifications – compete with an open, interconnected and mobile society and extend beyond national borders. While knowledge, goods and technology circulate between cities and regions across borders as a matter of course, migration flows of people fleeing their countries give rise to a new appreciation for global dependencies among Europeans. This has provoked national, regional and global reactions, resulting in the Brexit process and the Solidarity Cities initiative or taking the form of urban border spaces such as gated communities. As these developments occur in parallel – drawing and closing borders as well as networking and opening borders – cities across all of Europe will be confronted with great challenges, which will ultimately impact the Europe of the future. How do people live, learn and work in borderless and isolated districts, cities and region? What types of tension are prevalent in border towns and border-related situations? How can these border landscapes be developed, planned and shaped?"
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TU Wien conceptualises a discussion contribution on the basis of the metropolitan region Vienna-Bratislava, which constitutes an important state border-crossing laboratory space for spatial research.
Suitable methods will be combined and integrated based on problems and oriented towards solutions (preferred methods are: strollology, digital based methods for spatial analysis and simulation, spatial conceptions based on hypotheses and dialogue with stakeholders).
As an input for the summer school, participants of the seminar develop a poster presentation discussing and reviewing similarities and differences within the planning approaches in the metropols Vienna and Bratislava.
Active participation, presentation of posters, readiness to participate in the summer scholl, final report and critical reflection
