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Welcome to the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. We look forward to meeting you on campus soon. Feel free to get in touch with the Welcome Office for international students or with the ERASMUS-Office, in case you miss any information. If you prefer getting assistance in another language than German or English, you can get in touch with one of our international contact persons.
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The farewell of our graduates 2020/21
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Dortmund Conference on Spatial and Planning Research 2022
The 6th Dortmund Conference will take place on February 14th-15th, 2022. The Dortmund Conference on Spatial and Planning Research is jointly organized…
The Department of Spatial Planning
Spatial planning is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice that is influenced by engineering and social science, dealing with the different demands of society on the built and unbuilt environment. In 1968 the history of spatial planning began in Dortmund as an independently institutionalized discipline. Half a century after its founding, the Department of Spatial Planning at the TU Dortmund University is one of the largest planning science institutions in Europe and has been the strongest research Department in Germany for years.
Our 18 research groups offer a wide breadth and depth of content, so that interdisciplinarity lives not only in research projects with other scientists, but also in research and teaching here at the department. In addition to interdisciplinarity, our courses are strongly oriented towards the concept of researchbased learning, at each stage the study is enlivened by important practical elements of project study.
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On 16 December 2018, the TU Dortmund celebrated its golden jubilee. Fifty years ago, the Department of Spatial Planning was founded together with the University of Dortmund. Teaching began on 1st October 1969 with 74 first-year students on the diploma course in spatial planning. Under the influence of the 1968 movement, today's Department of Spatial Planning soon developed the project study program, which was intended to focus on the social and societal dimension of spatial planning and to facilitate an anti-authoritarian form of "research-based learning". Since then, this concept has been practised by many generations of students and is regarded by a majority of alumni as a central element of the program.
Fifty years of spatial planning means, above all, 50 years of scientifically sound and at the same time application-oriented study programmes. They mean 50 years of interdisciplinary research and teaching interlinked closely with practice. For more detailed insights into the history of the Department, we recommend the anniversary volume of the Department of Spatial Planning:
Gruehn, Dietwald; Reicher, Christa; Wiechmann, Thorsten (eds.) (2019). 50 Jahre Dortmunder Raumplanung. Berlin: Jovis Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86859-550-5.
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