Supervision: Dr. Letizia Imbres (ROP)

In this winter semester 2023/24, the Ruhr Lecture, entitled The Ruhr Region - A Metropolis in Transformation, will deal with challenges arising or having arisen from processes of change in the Ruhr Region across disciplines and from a wide range of perspectives.

Program

30.10.2023 What ever should you know about structural change? - How to Narrate the Transformation of the Ruhr Region for Scholars not Capable of Reading German: Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger (Institute for Social Movements, RUB) Nostalgia and Melancholia as Moods and Modes of Dealing with Neighborhood Change: Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank (Department of Spatial Planning, Urban and Regional Sociology, TU DO)

13.11.2023 Structural Change in the Ruhr: From Manufacturing to Knowledge-based Economy?: Prof. Dr. Matthias Kiese (Institute of Geography, RUB) Hydrogen instead of Coal: Hopes and Doubts: Prof. Dr. Michael Roos (Faculty of Management and Economics, RUB)

27.11.2023 Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change: Prof. Dr. Stefan Greiving (Department of Spatial Planning, TU DO) Climate and Air Quality of the Ruhr Region in the course of the Time: Prof. i.R. Dr. Wilhelm Kuttler (formerly Faculty of Biology, UDE)

08.01.2024 Regional Governance (Working Title): Prof. Dr. Karsten Zimmermann (Department of Spatial Planning, European Planning Cultures, TU DO) and Prof. Gerardo Silva (University UFABC, Sao Paulo)

15.01.2024 Narrative Strategies and Strategic Narratives in Postindustrial Urban Transformations: Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau (Faculty of Humanities, UDE) and Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr (Faculty of Humanities, UDE)

22.01.2024 Environmental Justice: An Approach to Urban Health in the Ruhr: Prof. Dr. Heike Köckler (University of Health, Bochum Climate Change and Urban Public Health - Driving Forces for Shaping a Sustainable and Healthy Future?: Prof. Dr. Susanne Moebus (Institute for Urban Public Health (InUPH), UDE)

29.01.2024 Land Use Change, Policy and Governance in the Ruhr Region: Prof. Dr. Stefan Siedentop (Department of Spatial Planning, Urban Development, TU DO) Town, Country or Town-Country? Architecture and Urban Design in the Ruhr Region: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sonne (Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, TU DO)

General Information: Since 2013, the RUHR LECTURE has been organized by the Institute of Geography at Ruhr-University Bochum and the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. In 2016, they were joined by the Joint Center "Urban Systems" at the University Duisburg-Essen. Since the winter term 2016/17, the RUHR LECTURE has been organized by the Competence Field "Metropolitan Research" of the UAR.

Contact and further information:

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Time and place

Certificate of achievement M.Sc. Spatial Planning (2012): essay of 5 pages. For questions regarding the essay please contact katharina.fesel@tu-dortmund.de This course is completed without exam.

Remark Participation is not limited in this course.

Type of course Lecture

Duration: 2 SWS

Points: 2