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ABSAGE: Anniversary exhibition "Design with Voids. Women in Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning".
Anniversary exhibitions
The Kassel Model 1973-2023
50 years of architecture - urban planning - landscape planning at the University of Kassel
In 1973, the new comprehensive university in 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.
CANCELLED: Wednesday, January 18 to Thursday, February 2, 2023:
Exhibition "Design with voids. Women in Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning"
The founding myth of the GhK includes equal opportunities and self-determination. However, when it came to the lack of female participation, the university initially differed little from other universities. Students, Secretaries and Employees were nonetheless quick to and continuously campaigned for a greater proportion of women in teaching and research, for fair working conditions and equal rights in architecture and planning. The exhibition addresses the "gaps" in previous historiography, the design of society, architecture and planning with a documentation of projects and initiatives that have been handed down in the doku:lab, the department's documentation and media workshop.
January 17 from 6 p.m.
Exhibition opening
We would be delighted if you would take the opportunity to join us in an open discussion about the past, present and perspectives of women in architecture and planning after an introduction and an initial tour of the exhibition.
The exhibition will be on display in the foyer of the new ASL building until February 2, 2023.
Foyer of the new ASL building
Universitätsplatz 9
34127 Kassel
Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Admission is free of charge.