The next issue of the Department Yearbook will be published in October 2021. In addition to the documentation of the professorships and teaching areas, the Discourse section is an essential component. In this section, a thematic focus will be placed on current discussions and positions within and outside the department. All members of the department, students and staff, are cordially invited to submit contributions for this section.

In the discourse section of the upcoming yearbook, under the title "Salutogenesis", we want to address the question of how architecture affects a "process of healing" of the human being, society, the city, the environment, even the planet, in contributions on the history and theory of architecture as well as on aspects of architectural practice and the history of art in as multi-layered a way as possible.
In doing so, it is first necessary to discuss how and whether an ideal of well-being and "health" could be understood and described at all. What is the significance of physical well-being, and what of psychological well-being?
In view of the history of culture and ideas, such a discussion cannot take place without including "illness" and "death". Finally, it must be asked to what extent architecture and art can find answers in such a process or are challenged in their primary qualities such as "aesthetics".

On the term "salutogenesis
In 1979, medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky coined the term "salutogenesis" to describe factors that maintain and promote physical and mental health, offering a new way of looking at health as a conceptual counter to the health risk posed by death and disease (pathogenesis). "Salutogenesis" represents a permanent balancing between these two (equally unstable, negotiable) poles of 'protection' and 'risk'.
Although rarely mentioned in this sense in architectural and art discourses, art, architecture, urban planning and landscape design have always been used to promote health.
Public health thus provides a critical lens through which to view the function, use and social meaning of institutions and spatial practices in cities, as in the countryside. Architecture, urban planning and landscape design could thus be thought of as instruments of salutogenesis in the development of urban infrastructure, buildings and spaces.

We are looking for contributions that examine architecture and art in terms of their contribution to the promotion of comprehensive health or that explore the relationship between architecture, art and health in other fundamental ways. The contributions can be historically oriented as well as focus on the present or the future. They can include technological, scientific, anthropological or cultural perspectives. The current pandemic can be a point of reference for such questions, but does not have to be.

Both text and image contributions can be submitted.
If you would like to participate in the discourse section of the yearbook, please send an abstract of your contribution to Frank Metzger by 12:00 noon on Wednesday, March 24, 2021.

Scope of abstract:
Text contributions: Max. 200 words plus visual material
Pictorial contributions: Max. six illustrations and a short description
Format: PDF or Word document
Please indicate the expected length of the contribution. Text contributions should not exceed 10,000 characters (including spaces). Image contributions should not exceed eight pages.

Selection of contributions
From the abstracts received, the editors will select the contributions for the discourse section by the beginning of April and ask for their elaboration. Depending on the volume, seven to ten contributions will find their way into the yearbook. We will then also require a short English summary and a short biography for the prepared contributions. The deadline for the submission of the completed contributions is the beginning of June 2021.

The editors look forward to receiving your submissions:
Academic Staff*: Marketa Breszkowa, Fanny Kranz, Nina Rind, Lydia Schubert
Students: Leon Hülsenbeck, Marie Leber
professors: Inge Hinterwaldner, Christian Inderbitzin, Meinrad Morger, Riklef Rambow, Ludwig Wappner
Technical assistants: Dorothee Egger, Christoph Engel
Representatives of the Deanery: Frank Metzger, Judith Reeh

Karlsruhe, March 3, 2021