This course investigates current transformations in the food systems and
cultures of Berlin under conditions of globalization. How have produce,
people and animals interacted to make life possible in modern cities and
how have those interactions changed over time in Berlin's history? What
kinds of systems have been built to provide energy, bring potable water
into cities, take sewage out, and provide clean air?
As a course in new sensory urbanism this curriculum seeks to expand the
traditional scope and range of the studied senses from sight (e.g. art,
architecture) and sound (music), to smell, taste and touch, so as to
rethink what it means to be a modern urban subject engaged in the pleasures
and powers of consumption. Through lectures, readings, field trips students
will master established facts and concepts about contemporary urban food
cultures and produce new knowledge of the same.
