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76422-01 - Übung: Observing and Restoring Border Landscape Continuities (3 KP)

Semester Herbstsemester 2025
Angebotsmuster einmalig
Dozierende Jascha van Gogh (jascha.vangogh@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Inhalt Course Description: This course explores the landscape building processes in the trinational
metropolitan region of Basel and examines how landscapes are shaped by cultural, social and
political changes. Students will learn about landscape transformation and gain understanding of the
evolution of landscape as a concept and result of practice, shaped by current challenges in public
and economic participations. Also, students will gain basic knowledge off botany and plant sociology
in particular habitats in order to link vegetation on expedition sites to certain predominant
environmental conditions and as well manner of maintenance.
The student group will critically examine the nature of environmental policies within the international
triangle as well as the potential of community-based initiatives, small-scale agricultural startups and
environmental engineering for restoring and building new landscape continuities. This course is
encouraging pragmatic approaches on the topic and aims to support the understanding of its topic
on an experiential level. Additionally, the group will deal with planning tools and policymaking in the
field of architecture and get to know technical approaches of restoring landscape continuities related
to built infrastructures.
The aim is to get to know the entire border region as a habitat for humans and animals and many
more living beings. In today's understanding, landscapes, and especially cultural landscapes, are
constituted as natural spaces shaped by humans where land use is the main focus. But what
political, cultural and economic conditions apply to these space shaping humans? The reality of
national borders creates different conditions for people. As the saying goes: shop in France, live in
Germany and earn money in Switzerland. The proverb has a strong flip side, in that it not only shows
the supposed advantages of neighborliness, but above all points to inequality. But also, the reality
of national borders creates different conditions for the development of landscapes in the smallest of
spaces, which is why there are also major visible differences within the border triangle. The question
is: how can people use their work and activities to re-establish ecological connections and
continuities in cultural use between the disrupted parts and landscapes? And how can people
restore their own individual access to land across borders in a self-determined way?
The course combines short lectures on history and geography of the region’s landscapes while
focusing on current politics. In preparation for the lectures, students will engage with selected
readings and case studies. They are also invited to contribute by submitting theoretical inputs from
their fields of practice in written form beforehand. The course concludes with a reflective session
allowing students to exchange their findings and experiences, synthesizing their learning journey
and sharing possible attempts and approaches to the topic regarding their own professional
background.
Bemerkungen The course is open to Master students from other programs with a priority for MA Students in Critical Urbanisms and in Changing Societies on timely registration. Maximum capacity 35.

 

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen Anmelden: Belegen ; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
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Intervall Wochentag Zeit Raum
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Einzeltermine

Datum Zeit Raum
Montag 25.08.2025 10.15-17.00 Uhr Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01
Dienstag 26.08.2025 10.15-17.00 Uhr Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01
Mittwoch 27.08.2025 10.15-17.00 Uhr Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01
Donnerstag 28.08.2025 10.15-17.00 Uhr Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01
Freitag 29.08.2025 10.15-17.00 Uhr Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01
Module Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms)
Prüfung Lehrveranst.-begleitend
Hinweise zur Prüfung Pass/Fail
An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich
Wiederholungsprüfung keine Wiederholungsprüfung
Skala Pass / Fail
Belegen bei Nichtbestehen nicht wiederholbar
Zuständige Fakultät Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Anbietende Organisationseinheit Fachbereich Urban Studies

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