Author: Stehle Maria
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
ISSN: 2041-6946
Source: Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, Vol.2, Iss.1, 2010-03, pp. : 139-153
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Abstract
This article investigates the potential of one of the most contested and debated spaces of German Studies research, the Postdamer Platz in Berlin, as an interactive "textbook." By employing the notion of "play" the areas around the commercialized Postdamer Platz can be "read" and explored as contradictory, chaotic, messy, and haunted by ghosts of the past, despite—or possibly amplified by—the newly constructed, glossy surfaces of global media and capitalism that form a center for the German capital. I consider the subversive possibilities as well as the limits of this playful approach to teaching, exploring, and learning about commercialized urban centers in the twenty-first century.
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