3rd Field Workshop: Rethinking the City.

This Field Workshop moves beyond the urban-rural divide by tracing the historical-geographical past and by
exploring the political-ecological and technological dimensions that set the city apart from the so-called
countryside. What are the factors that have contributed to the making of modern Munich, and what was their
impact on the Westend population in particular? Where’s the village in the city?

The field workshop starts with a guided tour of the ‘Stadtalm’, where grazing sheep are challenging the urban-rural divide. In the evening we will explore how the introduction of electricity has changed lives in the city as compared to the countryside.  The next day focuses on the ‘Westend.’ The historian and IDK principal advisor Prof. Dr. Marita Krauss will guide us on a discovery tour: “Das historische Westend zwischen
‘Glasscherbenviertel’ und königlicher Rumeshalle.”  After lunch we will stay in the Westend, where PhD student Lukas Emmrich’s will introduce us to what’s part of his PhD project: What’s particular about post-industrial urban communities? And what does this have to do with the notion of ‘Urban-Commons?’