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"Berlin: Temporal Topographies" is a multimedia,
web-based research and teaching project that investigates
the historical and cultural layers of a city. The
project takes Berlin-arguably one of the most rich,
contradictory, and multi-layered cities in the world-as
its point of departure and seeks to develop a research
platform and pedagogical methodology for studying
the history of the city space. The key objectives
of the project are: 
1. To develop a web-based research framework for
the representation of the topographical and historical
layers of Berlin by creating virtual reality maps
of the synchronic and diachronic transformations of
the city
2. To develop a pedagogical methodology informed by
new media studies for teaching about Berlin, including
the creation of curricular material for use in hybrid
classrooms.
In conjunction with the development of our research
website, "New Media Seminars on Berlin" will take
place at regular intervals on topics relating to media
studies and the investigation of urban spaces. The
first collaborative media seminar took place in July
2002 at Berlin's European
College of Liberal Arts (ECLA). The next seminar,
"Hypermedia Berlin," will take place at UCLA in the
spring of 2004. Over the next year, we plan to develop
a collaborative UCLA-Stanford seminar on Berlin for
the academic year 2005-06. The goal of these seminars
is to lay the groundwork for the development of a
new curriculum and pedagogical methodology for the
humanities that integrates project-based learning
with global media studies.
Core Personnel:
- Todd Presner (Assistant Professor of Germanic
Languages and Jewish Studies, UCLA)
- Victoria Szabo (VPUE Academic Technology Manager,
Stanford)
Advisor:
- Amir Eshel (Associate Professor and Chair of German
Studies, Stanford)
Affiliated Researchers:
- Michele Ricci (Ph.D. Candidate, German Studies,
Stanford)
- Naama Rokem (Ph.D. student, Comparative Literature,
Stanford)
- Ji-Yun Song (Ph.D.Candidate, German Studies, Stanford)
- Jobst Welge (Assistant Professor of Italian, UCSB)
Undergraduate Assistant:
Visit the Berlin
website.
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