Learning Objectives
The project builds on the students' experiential knowledge. In order to promote interaction - movement - social cohesion - awareness and togetherness, the module focuses on impromptu or ad hoc interventions in urban in-between spaces. Themes of urban future, participation, public sphere, and health are opened up, explored, contextualized and discussed and made accessible using tangible examples from art, architecture, ecology, social science and design. Students learn to develop hands-on architectural models in the 3D and wood workshops and are encouraged to reflect on their ideas informed by object-based prototyping. The module welcomes both subtle and disruptive ideas and compelling objects whose physical and aesthetic presence allows users to interact in ways that provoke ‘movement’.
Content
The students explore their interests in the shaping of places and urban spaces ‘off campus’. They work in an explorative and methodical way and examine public spaces either in a target-oriented or open-ended way. They carry out interviews, provoke reactions, observe, document and substantiate their ideas in appropriate visualization formats. Short assignments stimulate exploratory research. With the help of self-made or customized objects, students test and refine their ideas and push them further.
Regular coaching sessions and group discussions offer students the opportunity to exchange ideas with their peers and tutors. Students sharpen and reflect on their ideas in response to the feedback they receive. Guests from the fields of design and art, psychology, fitness and health, urbanism, policymaking and landscape architecture support the current discourses on urban co-existence, co-creation and participation in social and public spheres.
Course language
English
Lecturers
Christoph Zellweger, Minh Le, Xiaocun Zhu
