So it happened that i found myself in Dessau.
There is a program on EU Urbanism organised by the Bauhaus Foundation. 
We are the Bauhaus Kolleg 2006/07. A bunch of professionals from all disciplines dealing with the urban. Architects, designers, urban planners, ethnologists, curators and me, the political theorist/scientist. The point is to get grips with new concepts of European Urbanism by working together. This is collective research, where we all have our input and gain input for our own work.
Such as skills. I never constructed a model house before, but now I’ve done it with my own hands. First time I have touched a cutting knife for anything else than food for at least 15 years.
I’m sure this will become a good way to gain a vision of what European cities are or could be. We go for field research in Luxemburg and Sibiu this autumn and will use these skills of constructing the city in the process of deconstructing or reading it.
People here are great. From all around the world, really. We all 20 live in the same building and work at the same Bauhaus Dessau workshop. So it’s very intensive living.
Which might as well be so, as Dessau itself has not that very much to offer…
My next task is to get myself a bike. There are lovely forests and parks around. Time to enjoy the countryside after all the cities that I have been living in recently – and to get a break from the study of cities.
