Das Erbe des Flanierens

Building on a well founded criticism of gaps in the usual memory and remembrance concepts, and with the help of contemporary projects of remembrance work, Karsten Michael Drohsel develops a social figure for the methodization of a new remembrance that can be individually practiced and experienced. This is assisted by practices of attentive walking, which were developed from flânerie. The central momentum of the study lies in the question for the translation and handing over of memories in places where memories arise or to which they can be tied. This new form of remembrance activity includes individual and collective remembering into the existing discourse of memory and remembrance and elaborates the potentials of both modes without determining them.

Karsten Michael Drohsel (Dipl.-Ing.) betreibt das Berliner Impulsbüro für Stadtforschung, experimentelle Raumpraxis und urbane Bildung. Er lehrt an der Technischen Universität Berlin und der Universität Kassel. Als Projektentwickler arbeitet er an urbanen Bildungsprojekten in Tbilisi/Georgien und Yerevan/Armenien und berät ein soziales Wohnbauprojekt in Stuttgart. Er ist Gründer der Mobilen Universität in Berlin und des Joseph Süß Oppenheimer-Archivs in Stuttgart. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Sensueller Städtebau und Erinnerungskultur.