Ecopolis Catalog

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?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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?

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Kuen, Laura

The Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum, Germany

Laura Kuen studied social and cultural anthropology, environmental studies, and art in Munich and Venice. She obtained her MA from LMU Munich in 2018. She has worked on human-environment relations and conducted visual ethnographic fieldwork in Russia and Germany. Her documentary film Our Freedom was selected by festivals in Munich, Bristol, and Marburg. In 2018/2019, Laura has worked on the exhibition Cosmos Coffee as part of the curatorial team of the Deutsches Museum. In 2019, she joined the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society as curator for the student exhibition Ecopolis Munich 2019.

Lüdecke, Gesa

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Gesa Luedecke joined the RCC in 2019 as director of the Environmental Studies Certificate Progam. Gesa received her diploma in environmental sciences at Leuphana University in 2007, and completed her doctorate in 2012 with a dissertation entitled “Media and Climate-related Responsible Behavior.” Before joining the RCC, she worked at universities in Lüneburg and Boulder, Colorado, and executed the climate campaign “München Cool City” in Munich.

Mauch, Christof

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Through the Eyes of Children

The physical Ecopolis München 2019 exhibition also included a station for younger visitors. Every station was told as a story for children. After an adult reads the stories to the children, they could draw their impressions on paper at a nearby table. This station was created by Isabelle Hermannstädter.

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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?

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Hermannstädter, Isabelle

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Isabelle Hermannstädter holds a master’s degree in social work from LMU Munich. She is mainly interested in interactions between culture, society, individuals, and the environment. In her opinion, one of the most important aspects of successful sustainability is education. To master the upcoming challenges of the future a combination of education and digitalization is needed.

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Ismaning Reservoir

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

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?

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Klinski, Malin

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Malin Klinski received her bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology, with a minor in communication studies, from LMU Munich in 2018. Her interest in environmental studies developed while participating in a seminar on human-environment relations in connection to natural disasters during her exchange semester at the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in intercultural communication at LMU. Being born in Munich, she has never stopped being enthusiastic about exploring unknown aspects of the environment of her hometown.

Schilling, Anne

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Anne Schilling became part of the Ecopolis 2019 team when she was still quite new in Munich. It was a wonderful chance for her to get to know the city as a whole, detecting different interrelated stories and challenges. Anne joined the Environmental Studies Certificate Program because she was always interested in green spaces and nature per se. Now she had the chance to learn about and dicuss highly relevant topics regarding the environment and society in a very interdisciplinary and enriching academic environment.

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About the Exhibition

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? What do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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?

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Kleemann, Katrin

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Katrin Kleemann is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich in Germany, she studies environmental history and geology. Her doctoral project investigates the Icelandic Laki fissure eruption of 1783 and its impacts on the northern hemisphere. She holds a master’s degree in early modern history and a bachelor’s degree in history and cultural anthropology. Katrin receives a doctoral fellowship from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung. She also is the social media editor for the Climate History Network and HistoricalClimatology.com.

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Hydroelectric Power and Anishinaabe Diets: What Oral Testimony Suggests About Managing Food (In)Security on Reserve

by Samantha Mehltretter, Brittany Luby, and Andrea Bradford

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Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 33

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Interview with Helen Rozwadowski, author of Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow Helen Rozwadowski is interviewed on her 2018 book, Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans.