Baden-Württemberg Seminar Miami in the Anthropocene: Urban Resilience, Environmental Change, and Transforming Spaces of Inhabitation
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- Thursday, 20 November 2025, 18:15
- HCA, Atrium
- Prof. Dr. Stephanie Wakefield, Florida Atlantic University (USA), Department of Urban and Regional Planning
This lecture analyzes new urban concepts and spatial forms emerging as planners, designers, and architects respond to 21st century environmental change. Drawing on research in Miami, Florida and Great Lakes cities across the American Rust Belt, Prof. Wakefield will explore the philosophical and spatial dimensions of speculative designs including for bulldozing Miami and converting it into fill to create an archipelago of vertical, interconnected cities; floating architecture for ocean urbanization; and the conversion of cities like Duluth, Minnesota, into “climate refuges” for the “climigrants” relocating from heat- or flood-prone cities. These will be explored individually as well as together in terms of the emergent interconnected geography they imply. Drawing on the work of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, she will also explore how the definition and architecture of “home” is transforming within these designers, and the possible future trajectories they suggest.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies
HCA Atrium
Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais
Hauptstraße 120
69117 HeidelbergOrganizer
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