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  • ARK-E5521 - Urban Design Studio Lectures

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    Mandatory course for students on the Urban Design Studio (ARK-E1021 - Studio Spring, Urban Design)

    The notions of community, identity, ownership – the urban and the social – are all realized and tested in the sphere of the built environment of the neighborhood – even today with its overlays of digital information and networks of communication spanning the world.

    The interplay of the built and the social should inform the striving for ecologically, economically and socially sustainable environments – as the community is the key for planning and designing for resilience in our cities. Existing examples present us with repositories of urban models of forms and typologies – as well as practices and experiences – analytical research of these interconnected environments may give us tools for understanding new possibilities in our own cities and help us innovate solutions and processes for areas in need of change and transformation.

    The Urban Design Studio Lectures aims to focus on the ’neighborhood as commons’ through a set of lectures probing the social and material present and future of the 'neighborhood'.

    Completing the course entails attending the lectures, participating in discussion and submitting a written assignment at the end of the period, as well as presenting the assignment for the group. The assignment will be given at the start of the course, during the first session.

    Location: Q201 (Väre)
    Time: Wednesdays, 9:15-12:00 (except when otherwise stated). 

    Schedule (subject to change)

    11.01. First Session. Introduction to the course. Lecture: Resilience & Typology, prof. Karin krokfors.
    18.01. Circular Economy on the scale of the Neighborhood. Iida Kalakoski, Tampere University.
    25.01. No session.
    01.02. Placemaking. Päivi Raivio, raiviobumann.
    04.02. Not part of course, but interesting! Non-Aalto Event - How to design for social ecological cities?
    08.02. The Urban Commons. Riina Lundman, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku. Lecture only in Zoom. https://aalto.zoom.us/j/64270588987
    15.02. Design-Driven or People-Driven? - Notes on developing a neighbourhood. Katja Lindroos, Urban Practice.
    22.02. Last session. Student presentations. Schedule for presentations
    23.02. at 17:00 Keynote: Planning the neighborhood commons: design and the politics of community. Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago. Town and Regional Planning Department, ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Poster.
    https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62772270052