Concepts
Introduction
There are many different questions and perspectives you can use to guide your fieldtrip and field work around Tempelhof Airport. You might be interested in land use and decision-making processes, in the history of the site, the way bottom-up, alternative and sharing concepts seek to provide inclusive spaces or the role of rewilding. Concepts provide you with a specific lens to bring into focus dimensions relevant to your research.
Place making and place claiming
Perspectives on place making and claiming focus on the social (re)production of space and the contestations surrounding these processes. These relate to land use and access to land which are linked to underlying decision-making structures (e.g. privatization, internationalization).
Historical perspectives
Historical perspectives highlight the past but also allow understanding the present through representations of the past.
Urban gardening
Urban gardening initiatives have grown in numbers over the past years. Berlin in particularly has a wide range of urban gardening initiatives from food growing to communal spaces.
Conservation, Restoration, Rewilding
Rewilding describes the idea of ecological or environmental restoration as a form of conservation to increase biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.
Global city
Cities and urban areas are never self-contained but always connected with multiple other places. We hence frequently understand cities based on their international role.
