Excerpt from RCC alumnus Fabian Zimmer’s book Hydroelektrische Projektionen.
La diga, oltre a essere un’infrastruttura con alto impatto ambientale, è un’infrastruttura con alto potenziale scenografico. Fabian Zimmer passa dal ricordo del proprio stupore infantile a quello dei turisti attratti dai giochi d’acqua messi in scena delle compagnie idroelettriche in Svezia.
Fabian Zimmer discusses how the perceptions of dam visitors were actively shaped through public open days throughout the twentieth century.
Ismaning Reservoir: A Wastewater Lake changes its Feathers? At the Ismaning Reservoir, approximately an hour by bike northeast of Marienplatz, the interplay between humans and nature is evident. It is not possible to swim in the lake. But it does more than just store water for Munich’s power generation facilities. It also provides a habitat for many species.
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.
Episode 6 of Crosscurrents features talks and short interviews from the Climate Change and Energy Futures workshop. The 2018 workshop imagined futures related to climate change and energy, with attention to the social values that underlie decision-making in a carbon-constrained world.
