Food, Culture & Globalization: Berlin

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This course investigates current transformations in the food systems and cultures of Berlin under conditions of globalization. How have produce, people and animals interacted to make life possible in modern cities and how have those interactions changed over time in Berlin's history? What kinds of systems have been built to provide energy, bring potable water into cities, take sewage out, and provide clean air? As a course in new sensory urbanism this curriculum seeks to expand the traditional scope and range of the studied senses from sight (e.g. art, architecture) and sound (music), to smell, taste and touch, so as to rethink what it means to be a modern urban subject engaged in the pleasures and powers of consumption. Through lectures, readings, field trips students will master established facts and concepts about contemporary urban food cultures and produce new knowledge of the same.