Betreuung: 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 Strukturwandel? – 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 (Universität 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 (Hochschule für Gesundheit, 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:

metropolenforschunguaruhrde

Zeit und Ort

Leistungsnachweis
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.

Bemerkung
Participation is not limited in this course.

Art der Veranstaltung
Vorlesung

Dauer:  2 SWS

Punkte: 2