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Nexopolis (Study Abroad), |
STUDY ABROAD IN BERLIN 2002 Associate Professor Kristina Hill spent 4 weeks in Berlin in August, 2002 with 20 students from the Department of Landscape Architecture and one recent Architecture graduate, studying new urban design projects and providing students with an experimental environment for trying out new drawing techniques. They took an underground tour of the new water systems designed by Herbert Dreiseitl at Potsdamer Platz, kayaked around the floodplain forest cultural landscape of the Spreewald, and participated in a live link with Johannesburg, South Africa, as part of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10). For the core of the course, students hit the pavement in Berlin to draw transects that connected the former East and West to understand the transformation of the City since the Wall came down in 1989. We also discovered Berlin's nightlife, drinking and dancing in the open-air backyard of an artists' colony known as Tacheles and decided on a favorite beer garden (the one with the organic Wurst!), where we were frequent visitors. Overall, it was a terrific journey to one of the most transformed cities of the 20th century. Quite a place to draw! |
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