Gerda Henkel Foundation

Democracy Funding Programme

Aim: supports research on democracy along the triad of concepts 'utopia, experience and threat'. The focus of the programme is the multiperspectival examination of conflict history within society and politics.

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/democracy

Lost Cities- Perception of and living with abandoned cities in the cultures of the world

The funding program is designed to be interdisciplinary and to facilitate projects in which there are varied dimensions to the examination of abandoned cities. At the same time, there should be a focus on causal correlations, both with regard to specific individual cultures and spanning all cultures, and on specifics of place and time. Thus far, such places have emerged for very different reasons, including military destruction, natural disasters, epidemics, environmental pollution, economic collapse, financial speculation, mobility, migration, centralization, deindustrialization, or post-colonial change, to name but a few.

The aim of the program is to describe the tangible cultures of interpretation, knowledge and perception within these different contexts

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/lostcities