Events and lectures (archive)
Presentation of impromptu designs for street furniture in Guben
September 19th 2024
Master's students from the departments of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg were in Guben for the third time in the summer semester of 2024. As part of the impromptu programme at the Department of Urban Design and Urban Studies, they looked at spaces for young people and street furniture. After an initial exploration of the city in May and a joint inspection and mapping of everyday spaces with students in July, the presentation, discussion and competition for the resulting designs took place on 19 September at the Obersprucke cultural centre.
The aim of the designs was to create street furniture that improves the quality of stay in the everyday spaces explored by young people in Guben. The concepts were to be developed with the needs and wishes of the young people in mind and offer multifunctional and transportable solutions that combine aesthetics, ergonomics and robustness.
The students presented their designs, which were then critically evaluated by the pupils on the geography course at Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Guben. Advantages and disadvantages as well as possible improvements were discussed. The best designs were selected by a jury made up of the young people, experts from Guben city council, the architecture and engineering firm Bartke & Neumann in Guben, the planning office Form Follows You from Berlin and lecturers from the Urban Design and Urban Studies department at BTU.
The winning designs will be further developed for realisation by the Smart City project of the city of Guben, funded by the BMWSB. In spring 2025, these are to be realised together with the young people as part of a timber construction workshop.
RSA Annual Conference
June 11-14, 2024, Florence, Italy
Julia Binder: Pioneers’ resources in digital transformation: an agency perspective on digital social innovation in rural Germany.
Mapping everyday spaces with young people and students in Guben
July3rd2024 in Guben
As part of an impromptu module in the summer semester of 2024, a joint working day took place in the twin city at the Neiße in cooperation with the Smart City project Guben and the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium. The aim was to get to know spaces and spatial qualities as well as to record wishes, needs and conflicts in direct cooperation with the users of these spaces.
The joint start took place in the school auditorium with the 20 pupils from the advanced geography course and the 15 students from the Master degree programmes in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning getting to know each other. The methodology and task were introduced before the joint work phase in small groups, consisting of pupils and students, began. The mapping was carried out as cooperative research and design work to prepare the development of street furniture.
The first results were presented in a final round on the Museum Island on the Neiße. Seven groups explored parks, playgrounds and sports fields, the banks of the Neiße, the city centre and the Sprucke housing estate. The students are continuing to work with the results. The collaboration will continue with a timber construction workshop in September, in which both students and pupils will take part.
International Museum Day
May 19th 2024, at the International Museums Day in Stavenhagen
Keynote speech by Julia Binder 'Museen als Akteure für nachhaltige Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung'
Specialist conference Forschung.Digital
May 23rd 2024 in Pasewalk
Specialist conference Forschung.Digital
Panel discussion with Dr. Anika Ihmels, Martin French, V-Prof. Dr. Julia Binder and Prof. Dr. Engel Arkenau on new opportunities for rural areas.
Spring Meeting „The Power of Where. Spatial insights from survey data"
The english conference "The Power of where" under the leadership of the BBSR (Antonia Gilbert, Daniel Meyer) with SOEP Regio Hub (Simon Kühne), BTU (Julia Binder) and DIW Berlin (Jan Goebel) took place on 29.02. and 01.03. at the BTU Central Campus.
In ten panel sessions and one poster session, international scientists discussed the potential of linking spatial data with survey data.
Christoph Thewes and Luisa Geldbach from the Department of Regional Planning, who presented a poster on "Environmental Justice in Rural Germany", also took part.
Conference
September 21, 2023
Lecture "Nachhaltige Stadtzukünfte - Chancen und Herausforderungen für Klein- und Mittelstädte in ländlichen Räumen“ at the symposium Zukunft.Stadt.Museum of the Museum Association of the State of Brandenburg e.V., the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research and the City of Cottbus.
Conference
Keynote speech and participation in the panel discussion by Julia Binder at the conference „Utopia kulturelle Bildung: Kunst, Medien und Kultur in der Transformationsregion Lausitz“
Steering committee
Conference and training „Utopia Kulturelle Bildung: Kunst, Medien und Kultur in der Transformationsregion Lausitz“
The Conference and training „Utopia Kulturelle Bildung“ explores the potential of aesthetic and utopian practice in transformation processes in Lusatia. In the face of pressing crises, ideas for alternatives and methods are needed to accompany the upcoming change.
Cultural education promotes co-design and participation through educational programs and self-education with creative and artistic media. How can cultural education, art and culture support bottom-up processes in the transformation region? What role do utopias from the arts, digital pioneers and cultural education events with art and media play here?
Conference
June 22, 2023 at the Glad House in Cottbus
Keynote speeches, panel discussions, films and a networking program will focus on "alternative futures" from art, culture, media and cultural education in structural change in Lusatia.
training
June 23, 2023 at the Piccolo Theater in Cottbus
Biographical theater work, digital music projects, writing workshops, blue printing, photo stories and collective mapping in urban space: in workshops, multipliers from social work, schools, art and culture can try out various approaches to cultural education that support individual and social transformation processes.
Program and registration (up to 5.6.2023): https://bit.ly/3z0Zw3N
Organized by: Fachgebiet Kultur- und Medienpädagogik at Institut für Soziale Arbeit der BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg & M2B – Media to Be e.V. Cottbus
Supported by:
Partnerschaft für Demokratie Landkreis Spree-Neiße und
Partnerschaft für Demokratie Cottbus
im Rahmen des BMFSFJ-Bundesprogramms „Demokratie leben!“
Lecture
Digitale Pioniere in der ländlichen Regionalentwicklung
March 13 to 15, 2023 in Göttingen
Lecture from J. Binder and H. Zeißig as part of the 3rd BULE network meeting
Networking event
1st annual meeting on transformation research in the lignite mining regions at the BBSR Cottbus
February 9, 2023 from 10:00 to 16:00 at the Competence Center for Regional Development Cottbus, Thiemstraße 136
Networking meeting on research and transfer cooperation in the lignite mining regions
Book presentation
Die Region. Eine Begriffsvorstellung
January 12, 2023 at 6:00 pm at the University of Graz, HS 11.3, Heinrichstraße 36, Austria
Book presentation Die Region. Eine Begriffsvorstellung
Reading and discussion with the publishers
Book presentation
Kleinstadtforschung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
January 18, 2023 at 5:30 pm at Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
Book presentation Kleinstadtforschung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Panel discussion with Bernhard Weyrauch and authors (Julia Gabler, Alexandra Hessmann, Nicole Mitchell and Julia Binder)
