• Exhibition
• Researcher's daily routine
• From macrocosm to microcosm
• Deserts and savannahs
• The desert moves
• Adopting and sharing
• Exploration and travel
• Narrative and memory
• Fighting and negotiating
• Preservation and support
• Project Representatives

Deserts and savannahs are not only sparse habitats. The few watering-places and fertile pastures were already regarded in pre-colonial times as valuable possessions which were as fiercely fought over as the caravan routes. Many of the present-day conflicts have their origins in the colonial period in which European states in their quest for land and natural resources increasingly reduced the basis of the livelihood of the native population and created new boundaries and state borders. Today the struggle for resources is played out not only between states but also between governments and the populations of peripheral regions. Land and water, and raw materials such as oil, uranium and diamonds are at the centre of these conflicts.