VERSCHOBEN: What is Critical Urbanisms?

Exhibition at Kollegienhaus

In our rapidly changing and contested global environment, cities are becoming increasingly important: they house a majority of the world’s inhabitants and act as catalysts of social, political, economic, cultural, and ecological change. Established in 2016, Urban Studies at the University of Basel offers a new platform for understanding these planetary transformations.

We are pleased to present our first exhibition of ongoing work by students in our Master in Critical Urbanisms program as well as more advanced researchers. Our work starts from the premise that the world’s urban and environmental challenges call for new ways of doing as well as new ways of thinking. Imagining alternative urban futures means rethinking the present—its historical making, its political unfolding, and the ways in which it is made sensible. Our work expands the study of the urban by examining urban struggles and futures in relation to the legacies of empire and to alternative practices of world-making and knowledge production. 

The Master in Critical Urbanisms is an English-taught, four-semester program that qualifies students in interdisciplinary urban research combining methods from the humanities and social sciences with creative practice and visual representation. Drawing from the disciplines of architecture, geography, history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, the curriculum provides students with practical and theoretical competencies to address the complex challenges of urbanization in the twenty-first century.

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