Facts, Frictions, Fictions: Narrating the Berlin Story

The land is a palimpsest, marked by collective and personal histories. This course challenges the positivist approach to historical research by integrating narrative storytelling, as suggested by Saidiya Hartman’s "critical fabulation." Focusing on land theories, including conflict and colonial lands, we examine how land evolves through both fact and fiction.

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War and Reconstruction: Architecture Narratives of Berlin and Japanese Metabolism