Teaching content
All courses offered by the Department of Open Space Planning this semester are listed here.
Summer semester 2026
Winter semester 2025/2026
Project
Development concepts for the slag heap landscape of the Ruhr area
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Seminar
Special Concepts and Projects in Landscape Architecture and Open Space Planning
Summer semester 2025
Project
A third place in Forstfeld
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Feministplanning - theoretical principles, practical implementation and potentials for inclusive and sustainable cities
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Visions of cohabitation
Further information in the course catalog
Excursion France
Excursion to Marseille
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2024/2025
Project
About attitude - Open Space Planning in the field of conflicting interests
Further information in the course catalog
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Räume Orte Grenzen (BKP)
Further information in the course catalog
Excursion Berlin
Unerhört - Freiraumperspektiven marginalisierter Gruppen
Further information in the course directory
Summer semester 2024
Project
Walk on the Wilde Side
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Atlas of Cohabitation - How do we live with animals in the city?
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Urban Informality in Estonia
Further information in the course catalog
Excursion
Urban Informality in Estonia
Further information in the course catalog
Student research projects
Urban cohabitations
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2023/2024
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Excursion with accompanying seminar
Appropriate open spaces Dresden
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Special Concepts and Projects in Landscape Architecture and Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Dialogue field: open space+film+feminism
Further information in the course catalog
Summer semester 2023
Project
Shaping new territory: Temporary University Hambach
Further information in the course catalog
Excursion
Neuland Gestalten: Excursion to the Rhenish mining area
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Searching, sifting, collecting - Forest School Kassel
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Searching for traces - urban climate and urban nature
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Kassel unplugged - Urban informal open spaces
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning X
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2022/2023
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Stadtnatur Kassel - Lessons Learned
Further information in the course catalog and in the Moodle course.
Seminar
More than genius loci?
Case studies on landscape architecture and landscape planning in the
historical context
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning (FiAuP) IX: Architekt:in + Planer:in:
Role models in architecture and planning - yesterday and today
Further information in the course catalog
Summer semester 2022
Project
The end of human dominance - development of xtopian interventions for public space
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Dialogue field: freiraum+film+fassade
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
The most delicious places I ever beheld - History of European garden art in the early modern period in the footsteps of John Evelyn
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning VIII - Diversity - Research into the biographies of architects and planners
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2021/2022
Project
[...] - a collective of planners for d15
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Urban nature planning - innovative strategies from Europe
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning VII: Diverse and Colorful - Research on Diversity in Architecture and Planning
Further information in the course directory
Block seminar
Landscape, Wilderness and Garden in Science Fiction Film - Evaluating and Designing Film Images
Further information in the course directory
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course directory
Summer School
Bad Wildungen - Outdoor
Summer semester 2021 - DIGITAL
Project
Animals as actors in the "urban habitat"
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Freiraum Gottschalkstraße - between Nordstadt and Campus
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning V - Contemporary Testimonies Wanted!
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
History of Garden Art: Visitor Information in the Garden Monument 4.0
Further information in the course directory
Winter semester 2020/2021 - DIGITAL
Project
Visions of wild cities: Wilderness in the city as utopia and dystopia
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Living open space practice of young people - mapping and reflecting on their own open space biography
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Collective mapping of open spaces
Further information in the course catalog
Block seminar
The representation of landscape in science fiction films - the city as wilderness?
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning V - Contemporary Testimonies Wanted!
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar Hearings
Reflection of environmental meteorological methods in planning
Further information in the course catalog
Lecture / Exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course directory
Summer semester 2020 - DIGITAL
Project
"Are you already living, or are you still living? " Concepts for open spaces in the residential environment between management, design and appropriation
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
From the private to the public in the "new suburbanity" - Open Space Planning in suburban settlements
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Reading Traces in Open Spaces of Housing Estates - Recording and Interpreting Uses and Orders
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Housing practices in the interweaving of interior and exterior spaces in times of the corona crisis
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Your utopia, my dystopia?Open space utopias
Further information in the course catalog
Block seminar
The representation of landscape in science fiction film
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
History of Garden Art
Further information in the course catalog
Workshop/block seminar
Interdisciplinary design workshop for the preservation of garden monuments - scenography for the magic cave in Ostein's Niederwald forest
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Women in Architecture and Planning IV
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2019/2020
Project
Participation and Urban Nature - Animal-Aided Design for the School of Art and Design
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Open Space Planning, Climate Change and the System Question - Contributions of our Profession to the Discussion on Adaptation, Mitigation and Beyond Strategies in the Urban Context
Further information in the course catalog
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Women in architecture and planning: research into career alternatives for female architects and planners
Further information in the course directory
Lecture
History of Garden Art I
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Garden Art in Hesse
Further information here.
Summer semester 2019
Project
Nature on your doorstep: Open space planning concepts for the use and experience of urban nature
Further information in the course directory
Project
Bebra 2.0
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Bicycles and Open Space - Planning Policy Discussions, Conflicts and Designs
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Women in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning - Research on job profiles and working conditions of female planners and architects
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
History of Garden Art and Garden Monument Conservation
Further information here.
Winter semester 2018/2019
Project
Stadt-Land-Ernährung = hörbar machen - Visionen zur räumlichen Ernährungssystemplanung für Kassel und Umgebung entwickeln und durch audio-visuelle Medien vermitteln
Further information here.
Lecture
History of garden art
Further information in the course catalog
Lecture
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Nature on your doorstep: Innovative approaches to capturing the experiential value of urban open spaces (BKP)
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Open spaces of post-war modernism in Kassel - monuments or potential for densification?
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Women in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning - Research on teaching and research projects at the ASL department on gender aspects and equality in planning professions
Further information in the course directory
Block seminar
Edible Campus
Further information in the course catalog
Summer semester 2018
Project
Redesign of the town hall market in Bebra
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Park Stadt Natur (Urban public green between amusement park and ecotope - an international historical review)
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Wild animals on campus - preliminary study for an open space planning design concept using the Animal-Aided Design (AAD) method
Further information in the course catalog
Block seminar and excursion
Urban border regimes in Berlin
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2017/2018
Project
Multimedia open space design
Further information here.
Lecture
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Garden shows of the 20th century
Further information in the course catalog
Student research projects
Further information in the course catalog (winter semester 2017/2018)
Summer semester 2017
Project
Animal-Aided Design - Ingolstadtnatur
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Freiraumkapital - Worin liegt der Wert von Stadtgrün
Further information in the course directory
Project
Experimental participatory project workshop Sandershaus
Further information in the course directory
Lecture
Freiraum III
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Between Garden Art and Garden Culture: Urban Design and Landscape in Kassel
Further information in the course catalog
Block seminar
A rooftop community garden as a concrete place for emancipation and alternative ecologies
Further information in the course catalog
Winter semester 2016/2017
Project
Space for appropriation: New open spaces at the student house in the head buildings
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Holy Ground
Further information in the course catalog
Project seminar
Preparation of a research trip to North America on the topic of food planning and food systems
Further information in the course directory
Lecture
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Lecture
Transformation and planning processes
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Critical scenography of the 1955 Federal Garden Show in Kassel
Further information in the course directory
Summer semester 2016
Project & excursion
Active stations and station open spaces - hotspots for the cross-border urban region Open space planning design project as part of the IBA BAsel
Further information in the course directory
Lecture/exercise
Freiraum II & III
Further information in the course catalog: Open Space II & Open Space III
Seminar
Municipal Open Space Planning in Kassel: Securing Open Space and Inner Densification - A Reprint?
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Animals in the city - Metropolitan animal-human relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries
Further information in the course catalog
Ring seminar
Arriving in Kassel Living and Participation Perspectives of Refugees
Further information in the course directory
Block seminar
Diversity training for planners
Further information in the course directory
Excursion with accompanying seminar
Food planning in London and Brighton
Further information here.
Student research projects
Further information in the course catalog (summer semester 2016)
Winter semester 2015/2016
Project
161. Schinkel Competition 2016 - thematic focus 3
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Schlaun competition Hamm city center
Further information in the course catalog
Lecture/exercise
Introduction to Open Space Planning
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Innovative Approaches to Municipal Open Space Planning
Further information in the course catalog
Student research projects
Further information in the course catalog (winter semester 2015/2016)
Summer semester 2015
Project
Die Natur der Flutmulde - Leitbilder und Konzepte für die Freiraumentwicklung der Flutmulde im Kasseler Osten
Further information in the course directory
Seminar
Accessibility in landscape architecture
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Urban Design and Landscape
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
New eco-discourses in urban and landscape planning
Further information here.
Seminar
Baustelle Nordcampus: Die Umsetzung
(Seminar offered in cooperation with the Department of Landscape Architecture)
Scientific colloquium on the student research project
Subject area Open Space Planning I & Open Space Planning II
Winter semester 2014/2015
Project
Animal-aided Design
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Melsungen- New building in the old town
Further information in the course catalog
Project
Open Space Planning Nordcampus - Designing for the Gap
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Design in the collective? Strategies for communally usable space using the example of Berlin
Further information in the course catalog
Summer semester 2014
Project
Redesign Frankfurter Straße Strategies for the "residence-friendly" reconstruction of a radial street in Kassel
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Theory and history of planning urban landscapes
Further information in the course catalog
Seminar
Non-hegemonic use of space
Further information here.