Course content and focus areas
- Geographies of Urbanization: What makes life in cities unique, what changes can be observed, and how are the resulting conflicts—around housing, public finances, and shared resources—negotiated politically?
- Mobility Research: What are the social, political, and infrastructural conditions for a sustainable transformation of traffic and mobility?
- Geographies of Economization: What spatial differences are created by economic activities, under what circumstances do things become commodities, and how do markets shape the way we live together?
- Geographies of Human-Nature Relationships: How can human and non-human horizons be connected to sustainably and equitably develop shared living spaces?
- Digital Geographies: What impacts do digital technologies, algorithms, and platforms have on socio-spatial practices, and how do they reshape our understanding of space, work, culture, and politics?
The exploration of geographic research fields is closely tied to the development of conceptual approaches. In addition to applying qualitative methods such as interviews or ethnographic fieldwork, students can also deepen their knowledge of quantitative approaches, including statistical processes or geographic information systems, during their course of study.