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Green lunch break in the Duisburg city forest directly behind the university

Tuesday, 23.09.2025, 12.30-14.00, walking distance approx. 3 km, max 20 people, start and end: Duisburg campus, €12

How about a slightly different lunch break? This forest walk invites you to listen to the birds chirping away from the noise of the city, admire the spreading treetops of the old beech trees or simply enjoy the forest. And along the way, you will learn a secret or two about the trees and forest dwellers and suddenly see the forest with completely different eyes....

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. 

Marxloh from the perspective of its residents

24.09.2025, 18:00 - 19:30, Meeting point: Augus-Bebel-Platz in Marxloh, independent arrival, max. 40 persons, Language: English, €12

Neighborhoods like Marxloh are associated with stereotypes and one-sided narratives about ›failed integration‹ and crime, both in public perception and in academia. For years, Marxloh and its residents have been subjected to the extractivist practices of different actors such as journalists, politicians and scholars resulting in further stigmatisation and mistrust of outsiders. The city walk ›Marxloh from the perspective of its residents‹ is intended to offer an alternative to this by giving the participants the opportunity to hear about the life in the neighbourhood from those who live and work in it. Members of two local grassroots initiatives: ›Stolipinovo in Europa‹ and ›Marxloh›s neighbour‹s Initiative‹, as well as local researchers will guide participants through central locations and the associated conflicts around migration management, labour exploitation, urban restructuring and ethnic displacement. As any other space in the margins Marxloh is a space of resistance and fight, participants will learn more about the history of local struggles and their current dimensions. 

Organizer: 
Polina Manolova (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool. 

Guided tour of the Hochfeld neighbourhood

24.09.2025, 18:00 - 21:00, Meeting point: Platanenhof stop (line 903/U79), Duisburg Hochfeld, independent arrival, max. 30 people, Language: German, €10

Duisburg-Hochfeld is an exemplary district where migration, socio-economic precarization and urban political interventions meet. The post-industrial working and migration district is characterized by discourses of poverty and crime, migration-specific dynamics and institutional practices of exclusion in the areas of housing, work, social services, education and health.
We offer this guided tour from a critical research perspective and together with people from the district and the Verein für die solidarische Gesellschaft der Vielen e.V. (Association for the Solidarity of the Many). It is aimed at anyone who wants to get to know Hochfeld from a deeper perspective and understand how urban development policy measures, institutional discrimination and social dynamics interact and shape local life.

It will highlight the links between exclusion, forced evictions and displacement caused by urban development projects such as the IGA 2027 and their impact on the realities of residents' lives. At the same time, the importance of local networks and civil society involvement in these processes will be examined. A special focus is placed on questions of sovereignty of interpretation, representation and serious social participation: Which voices count, which are heard?
The tour offers the opportunity to critically reflect on urban policy top-down interventions and their effects and to enter into a discussion about them.

Organizer: Lena Wiese

 

City tour by bus (in German)

Tuesday, 23.09.2025, 16.30-18.30, max. 49 people per bus, start and end: Duisburg Campus, €19

On this tour, you will travel by bus and explore the north of Duisburg, including the districts of Marxloh and Ruhrort. Marxloh is a colorful and vibrant district that is home to one of the largest mosques in Germany and attracts numerous tourists because of its bridal fashion mile. The Ruhrort district also has a lot to offer. Between the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, inland shipping and the still important industrial port have shaped this district and given it an almost maritime atmosphere. A tour takes you over cobblestones and past narrow streets. After passing the Thyssenkrupp site, you reach the highlight of Duisburg, the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park. Industrial history, leisure and culture find their place on the 200-hectare site. Numerous attractions have been created here, such as a high ropes course, the diving gasometer and a climbing garden in former ore bunkers. Participants have time to explore the site themselves.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the city tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg. 

Brewery tour König-Brauerei with bus transfer (in German)

Wednesday, 24.09.2025, 17.15-21.30, max. 50 people, start: Duisburg campus, end: PULP Eventschloss party location, €45

During the tour of the ›royal‹ brewery, visitors learn what makes König beers so special. They have been brewing in Duisburg-Beeck since 1858. A long tradition and great care have made the König brewery's products what they are today: Beers of the highest quality and best taste. After the tour, guests can see this for themselves over a drink and a pork knuckle with potato salad.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg. 

After work in the Duisburg city forest (in German)

Wednesday, 24.09.2025, 17.30-19.30, walking distance approx. 3.5 km, max. 20 people, meeting point Campus Duisburg, €13

What could be more relaxing than enjoying the evening in the forest? On this forest tour, we encounter the forest as we have never seen it before. We make the acquaintance of a living creature that seemed familiar to us, but here for the first time appears before our eyes in all its vitality.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. 

Inner Harbour tour (in German)

Thursday, 25.09.2025, 9-10.30 am, max. 25 people per tour, start: Mercatorbrunnen in front of Duisburg Town Hall, end: Steiger Schwanentor, Calaisplatz, 47051 Duisburg, €7

Grain used to be stored and milled here, today modern office buildings are lined up next to each other, restaurants and museums invite you to visit. Find out on this tour how the inner harbor became a prime example of structural change and industrial heritage and what makes this contrasting part of the city so special.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg. 

Harbour tour (in German)

Thursday, 25.09.2025, 11 am - 1 pm, start and end: Steiger Schwanentor, Calaisplatz, 47051 Duisburg, €20

Duisburg - a port city? Let yourself be surprised by the world's largest inland port, which sets new standards with 22 harbor basins and approx. 180 hectares of water. Your harbor tour is hosted by the Weiße Flotte.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg.