Spaziergang

“From an aesthetic standpoint, Gießen is not mediocre. Gießen is ugly. No real Gießener would contest that,” Die Zeit has put it bluntly. This workshop examines the contested production of what we term “urban ugliness”: a discursively circulated yet locally negotiated stigma attached to cities with purportedly little aesthetic charm. As the town hall’s reappropriation of the […]