ExploringUrbanAtmospheres

The European Summer Academy will be dedicated to the ‘urban sensible’: the city as site of atmospheric organization. What are the conditions, consequences and potentials of urban atmospheres? How does urban cultural vitality take shape, and how is it engineered? How are current forms of political polarisation as well as practices of solidarity and care conditioned by collective affects and moods? Participants will apprehend the city of Berlin as an empirical site of atmospheric forces. They will conduct sensory fieldwork, enacting their own stories of the atmospheric city.