Radical Affect: The Podcast Sarah Halford (GGFUP, 2016, Location: Berlin) The relationship between art and activism has many different descriptors. Some call it “social practice” or “protest art” or “artivism.” In my research, however, I have mainly been using the moniker “artistic activism,” with a specific rationale in mind. Working as a research fellow at […]
Prinzessinnengarten: Urban Space, Gentrification, and the Mythology of Alternativism in the New Berlin Henry Topper (GGFUP, 2014, Location: Berlin) In the early 2000s, Berlin spearheaded a branding campaign that would entice both the creative class and investors to reinvigorate the “poor but sexy” city. Henry Topper argues that the reclamation of abandoned spaces for alternative […]
Tempelhof Field Idan Sasson (GGFUP, 2014, Location: Berlin) With his analysis of the popular movement to keep Berlin’s Tempelhof Airfield undeveloped and free for public use, Idan Sasson assesses what he considers Berliners’ “symbolic resistance” to “business as usual” urban policy.
Green Berliners: The Role of Religion and Nationality in the Sustainable Practices of Berlin’s Ethnic Germans and Turkish Muslim Migrants Robert Clinton (GGFUP, 2015, Location: Berlin) Robert Clinton’s project was to assess whether Germany’s environmental policy, which can appear to have only secular underpinnings because it is state-sponsored, can be traced to Christian tradition. He is interested […]