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Opening of the exhibition "Searching for traces. Urban nature and urban climate in Kassel" in the ASL foyer
The exhibition traces the links between debates of the last 50 years and today's issues: Can traces of the projects and approaches initiated in Kassel still be found today? Are earlier considerations still relevant or even more relevant today than they were decades ago? Should they be critically questioned?
The ASL department has a long tradition of dealing with the topics of urban nature and urban climate. Be it the alternative approach to spontaneous vegetation by the Kassel School, the urban climate analyses in Kassel at the Department of Environmental Meteorology, the interdisciplinary discussion about the social value of urban nature or the appropriation of open spaces. Particularly recently, the handling of urban climate and urban nature in the context of climate change and the transport transition has dominated many public debates.
In addition to projects and views that have been developed at the ASL department on urban nature and urban climate in Kassel, two walks across the campus and through the Nordstadt provide a practical insight into the search for clues. The exhibition also looks to the future in order to discuss tasks in Kassel and ASL.
The exhibition is based on the results of the student projects "Back to future Kassel" by the Department of Environmental Meteorology and the Department of Landscape Planning and Communication and "Urban Nature Kassel - Lessons Learned?" by the Department of Open Space Planning from the winter semester 2022/23 and was implemented by students as part of a seminar "Searching for Traces - Urban Climate and Urban Nature Kassel" in the summer semester 2023.
The exhibition can be seen in the foyer of the new ASL building until June 15, 2023.
Foyer of the new ASL building
Universitätsplatz 9
34127 Kassel
Monday - Friday 8 am - 8 pm
Admission is free of charge.
Anniversary exhibitions
The Kassel Model 1973-2023
50 years of architecture - urban planning - landscape planning at the University of Kassel
In 1973, the new Gesamthochschule Kassel initiated the reform courses of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning. The "Kassel Model" challenged traditional pedagogical concepts, institutional structures and subject content. It pursued a strong social agenda and rethought the relationship between science, planning and society. The appointment of young, innovative university lecturers also underpinned the spirit of optimism in terms of personnel. Kassel made a name for itself in the German university landscape as a radical educational experiment, which in the years that followed gave rise to numerous professional innovations that had a lasting impact on the disciplines. Even back then, many topics were initiated that have taken on a new urgency today in the face of climate change and the Anthropocene. The department is taking its 50th anniversary as an opportunity to look back on its own history with a series of exhibitions and to ask itself what relevance the experiments of that time have for us today.