Social Learning at the Osterseen Nature Reserve
06.06.2014
Inaugural Place-Based Workshop Explores How Disciplines Read Landscapes
by Johanna Bär, Adrian Franco, Rob Emmett, and Elena Torres Ruiz
In June 2014, a group of two dozen RCC graduate students, visiting fellows, and LMU faculty traveled to the Osterseen nature reserve for our inaugural place-based workshop. The Osterseen are a chain of glacial dead-ice lakes identified as a site of exceptional national geological interest (Nationaler Geotop). Over three days while camping on the Fohnsee, we explored practical ways in which different disciplines read a landscape. Markus Hoffmann (TUM) introduced us to the research and history of the Iffeldorf limnological field station, Anke Friedrich (LMU) and Seth Stein (Northwestern University) helped us plunge into the geology of the region, and Daniel Rittenauer (Institut für Bayerische Geschichte) provided us with insight into the cultural history of Seeshaupt. Tobias Schiefer (Prof. Schaller UmweltConsult GmbH) took us on a hike that became an in-depth look at the vegetation ecology between Seeshaupt and Iffeldorf and Freia Oliv journeyed with us through the regional art history on display at the Buchheim Museum.