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Infrastructure is definitive of cities, intimately embedded in their constant change – their expansion and densification, their sprawl and contraction, their construction and reconfiguration. In addition to reconfiguring energy, water, sewage, solid waste, transportation, and communication systems to address persistently complex societal issues and reshape urban futures, infrastructure is also cultural. This lecture focuses on the cultural infrastructure that supports practices of producing, performing, consuming, and collecting culture, to affirm the centrality of culture to the imagination, mediation, and constitution of cities both in the present and into the future. mehr Info

Am 17. Juni 2023, ein Samstag, ist es wieder so weit: Wissenschaft und Forschung werden erlebbar. Von 17 bis 24 Uhr laden rund 60 wissenschaftliche und wissenschaftsnahe Einrichtungen in Berlin und Potsdam dazu ein, einen Blick hinter die Kulissen zu bekommen. Das IRS ist in diesem Jahr mit drei Erlebnis-Angeboten im Haus der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft in der Chausseestraße 111 in Berlin-Mitte dabei. Die Angebote des IRS richten sich an Familien und an alle Interessierten, die mehr darüber wissen möchten, wie Menschen kollektives Handeln ermöglichen, um Dörfer, Städte und Regionen zukunftsfähig zu entwickeln. mehr Info

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The focus of the summer school is to examine how historical strata have been understood, constructed, and interpreted in different European cities from the post-war period to the present day. On the one hand, the participants learn how historic buildings were integrated into the post-war reconstruction plans on both sides of the "Iron Curtain". On the other hand, they will be encouraged to think how historical authenticity has been established in the preservation of monuments and what might have been overlooked in the process. Finally, participants will discuss how people (individually and in groups) remember and what this means for our understanding of the past. The students should also investigate how digital methods can help to understand today's memory landscapes. mehr Info