Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Varying themes, e.g. of contemporary knowledge base, new development directions, interdisciplinary collaboration and the research of the limits of architecture. More specific contents vary according to the theme. The professor may case-specifically give the course a unique name and, if desired, register studies completed abroad.
Credits: 12
Schedule: 08.09.2020 - 01.12.2020
Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Antti Ahlava, Karin Krokfors, Karin Krokfors
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Antti Ahlava, Karoliina Hartiala
Contact information for the course (valid 12.08.2020-21.12.2112):
This is a collaboration course with Service Design master programme at Royal College of Art (London).
At Aalto University, students can take this course (12 study points) as either
• ARK-E0001 Special Project of Architecture, or
• USP-E0314 Capstone Project
Aalto University
Professor in charge: Antti Ahlava, Professor of Emergent Design Methodologies (Architecture)
antti.ahlava@aalto.fi, +358503241179
Jaana Tarma jaanatarma@crastinus.com
Karoliina Hartiala karoliina.hartiala@gmail.com
Mengwei Wang (course assistant) mengwei.wang@aalto.fi
RCA
Nicolás Rebolledo nicolas.rebolledo@rca.ac.uk
John Makepeace john.makepeace@rca.ac.uk
Student assistants:
Yi-Tzu Chang
Kenjiro Taniguchi
CEFR level (applies in this implementation):
Language of instruction and studies (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):
Teaching language: English
Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Depend on the study event.
Applies in this implementation:
INTRODUCTION: CITY AS A SERVICE
This study course aims to provide students with a theoretical, methodological and practical grounding for progressive spatial development of urban spaces and urban design. The focus is on the emphatic understanding, conception and design of convivial outdoor environments and temporary uses, based on social sustainability. The course is cross-disciplinary, combining the ability of service design to outline user-based environments with the architectural design of neglected urban areas with development potential for human-based milieus.
Aalto University aims to realise the transformation of Otakaari road into a street during the forthcoming years. The university sees the campus as a living lab – a public innovation laboratory.
The aim of this project is to design services that can serve as platforms for co-creating value with the partners of the university, opening the Aalto campus to the city and turning a road into a lively street and community.
There lays a potential for a new business model for services to be placed in the temporary spaces of our site. Some of these services may be related to wellbeing, partnering and public events.
At RCA, the learning objectives are to bring service design to life through an end to end design strategy, value proposition and touchpoint definition. This mean to develop a service proposition going through all the stages of service design:
from discovering a problem, defining a strategy, developing a service / value proposition and prototyping, testing and refining its key components, mechanisms or touchpoints. Platformisation will be the overall topic for this RCA course.A larger theme behind this endeavour is to correct the legacy of modernist traffic planning in a city environment. As in numerous other modernist urban areas, also in Aalto University campus in Otaniemi, Espoo – our design site – there are no streets - just roads. The question is how to turn a road into a lively street with new amenities, which will enliven the place and increase the wellbeing of the people of the area. Another theme is adaptive regeneration. We will be operating in a place with iconic architectural heritage – Alvar Aalto’s architecture. How to add new functions and structures next to a protected building?
Aalto University sees the campus as a living lab – a public innovation laboratory.
The university aims to realise the transformation of Otakaari road into a street during the forthcoming years.The aim of this course is not only to develop preparatory material for areas and spaces to be renewed, but to think this task also as a prototype for co-creating value with the partners of the university. A street could be seen as a platform for services and experiences. There lays a potential for a new business model for services to be placed in the temporary spaces of our site. Some of these services may be related to wellbeing, partnering and public events.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Depend on the study event.
Applies in this implementation:
Group work 40% (including the quality of collaborating)
Individual work 60%
Workload
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Depends on the study event, but basically the ratios are: groupwork 1:2, excercises (design)
Applies in this implementation:
12 study points (12 x 27h = 324h)
You should participate at least 80% of the tutorials every week and the workshop + with a valid reason for not to be present (illness, military service, jail etc…). On weeks with two tutoring sessions you can select just one, except the workshop week (week 40). Please note, that changes to this timetable are possible. Please arrive to tutorials when they start and write your name to the tutoring list during the first 15 minutes. All Aalto teaching takes place in Väre unless otherwise mentioned. Due to the university regulations, there can be maximum 20 people in one space at one time throughout the study course.
AU and RCA students have weekly remote touchpoint on every Thursday within the group on 30 Sept. – 20 Oct using digital tools including Miro, G Suit, Zoom and/or Trello for collaboration.
DETAILS
Study Material
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Depend on the study event.
Applies in this implementation:
BACKGROUND MATERIAL
MAPS
• Maps & geospatial data, incl. 3D buildings: https://kartat.espoo.fi/IMS/en/Map
• Aalto University campus: https://www.aalto.fi/en/campus
• Aalto University Aalto Studios project – present-day designs
• Combined ‘Nolli’ style groundfloor plans with site plan available: https://wiki.aalto.fi/download/attachments/106247213/Main_street_Nolli.zip?api=v2
• City plans and explanations
• Combined city plan explained in English
• Images – a compilation of photos on the area and its buildingsLITERATURE
• LSE Cities research on high streets in the UK: http://www.lse.ac.uk/cities/publications/research-reports/High-Streets-for-All
• Camden Pop-Up Think & Do: https://www.camden.gov.uk/pop-up-think-do-community-space-for-climate-and-eco-action
• Human Cities project: humancities.eu
• Jan Gehl: Time to reclaim the streets: https://gehlpeople.com/cities/time-reclaim-streets/
• Jan Gehl: Ihmisten kaupunki
• https://living-future.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SFPatterns.pdf
• Living Future Institute: Strategies for Living Neighbourhoods: https://living-future.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Living-Communities-Patterns-SanFrancisco.pdf
Substitutes for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
ARK-E1008, ARK-E1506, ARK-E2004, ARK-E3506, ARK-E4504, ARK-E5003, ARK-E5004
Prerequisites
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Depends on the study event.
Registration for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
WebOodi.
The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)
The order of priority is as follows:
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
- exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
- other students.
Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.
This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.
Applies in this implementation:
Mycourses
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
13 Climate Action
15 Life on Land
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Minimum amount of students: 3.
Applies in this implementation:
Mycourses
Details on the schedule
Applies in this implementation:
Mycourses
- Teacher: Ahlava Antti