Transformative Place-Making for Uncertain Futures: Integrative Perspectives on Narrative, Education, and Design

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    1. TPM: The project
    2. Principal Investigators
    3. Employees
    4. Student Assistant
    5. Publications
Project Conclusion

This project has now come to an end. The following information is to be understood as an archive.

TPM: The project

The project provides an integrative investigation of narratives, educational strategies and designs of transformative place-making processes in the face of the climate crisis and its effects on concrete life worlds. The concepts of place, agency, and future will provide the foundation for the development of a theoretical-conceptual framework that examines the situatedness of agency as the basis for emancipatory paths toward more just and sustainable futures. By analyzing processes of transformative place-making in and through ecotopian narratives, urban design and learning environments, this project seeks to propose paradigmatic place relations, which are then critically developed and mobilized in dialogue with social actors outside of the university. This project aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to interdisciplinary and self-reflexive perspectives on societal and cultural transformation. Guided by an understanding of the climate crisis as a profound systemic disruption of habitual relations between situated subjects and their environments, this project is invested in the recognition that mobilizing change requires critical attention to the entanglements among social, cultural, material, political, affective and economic structures.

Principal Investigators

Moritz Ingwersen © Michael Kretzschmar

Chair of North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies

Name

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen

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Departmental Building WS48:

Institute of English and American Studies, Room 3.22 Wiener Straße 48

01219 Dresden

Deutschland

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+49 351 463-37733

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Raschke © TU Dresden

Inhaberin der Professur

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Prof. Dr. Nicole Raschke

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Hülßebau, HÜL / O356 Helmholtzstraße 10

01069 Dresden

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+49 351 463-37296

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Monday:
13:30 - 14:30
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Prof. Melanie Humann © OliverLang

Chair of Urbanism and Design

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Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Architektin Melanie Humann

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Gebäude BZW, Raum B 204 Zellescher Weg 17

01069 Dresden

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Employees

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Research Assistant

Name

Ms Anika Beckwermert M.A.

„Transformative Place-Making for Uncertain Futures“ (TUDiSC)

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Professur für Literatur Nordamerikas, Institute of English and American Studies Wiener Straße 48

01219 Dresden

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Research Associate

Name

Leon Jank M.Sc.; Dipl. Ing.

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Seminargebäude 1, Office SE-1, 18b Zellescher Weg 22

01217 Dresden

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Student Assistant

Annika Lau

Hanna Trumpf

Publications

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