Communicating shared heritage: Summer School assignments
Find here the 4 assignments given to Tanzanian and German students to orient them in searching for shared heritage in Berlin’s urban environment.
Thinking about archives: quotes and references
A series of quotes and references that guided our reflexion in the Berlin Summer School –collaboration between TU Berlin and Ardhi, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Writing about the city
Some examples of great narratives that build a vivid, sensitive, sometimes shocking or unconventional picture of the Urban:
Researching heritage: online archives
In her two-part article published on e-Flux, Innovative Forms of Archive, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez describes the ways that Eastern European art collective IRWIN has begun a process of self-historicisation in order to (re)create a history of their cities and countries....
Afrikanische Viertel in Berlin: a PostKolonial Take On The City
How is Germany’s little known colonial history still archived in the city? Reflexions from Berlin Postkolonial.
Researching Dar es Salaam – A Bibliography (2)
A selection of readings questioning Northern epistemologies in urban studies and aiming to “decolonize” academic discourses about African urbanism.