ARK-E5517 - Urban Design Thinking D, Lecture, 25.10.2023-13.12.2023

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• Select topic Urban Design Thinking

  Urban Design Thinking
  
  

  Start of the course 25.10. at 9:15 in space M202 (Väre)
  
  Description: The course is a theoretical introduction to different historically conditioned and emerging paradigms in urban design, encouraging a critical and analytical approach to relevant literature.
  
  Duration: Period II
  From the 25th of November, to the 13th of December (7 sessions, no session on the 6th of December).
  The course events are scheduled on Wednesday mornings, at 9-12.
  
  Location: M202 in the Väre building.
  
  Content: a series of thematic lectures concerning urban design thinking, exploring urban form in its historical and contemporary context(s). The course concludes with seminar presentations by the students.
  
  Completing the course: attendance and participation in discussions. The students produce an essay and a presentation on a selected topic.
  
  Registration: Through Sisu. 40 students.
  
  Schedule (changes possible)
  25.10. Garden Cities + start of the course
  

  01.11. Social City + discussion on topics
  

  08.11. The City as a Work of Art + Urban and Environmental aesthetics.
  Sanna Lehtinen, PhD, Docent, Research Fellow, Transdisciplinary Art Studies Unit.
  

  15.11. Functional Cities + Kristiaan Borret's lecture on production in the city (7min recording) + discussion.
  Kristiaan Borret, Bouwmeester / Maître Architecte at Brussels Capital Region
  

  22.11. Sustainable Cities (prof. Krokfors) + De-coupling and Re-coupling Architecture (Karkulahti).
  Iines Karkulahti, architect, Vapaa Collective (https://www.vapaacollective.fi/)
  

  29.11. Productive Cities + Digitalization and Urbanism.
  Jarmo Eskelinen, Executive Director, Data-Driven Innovation Initiative, University of Edinburgh.
  30.12. Art of Research conference
  Keynote lecture. Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago: Re-imagining urbanization: cities and the politics of the common.
  In the space Lumituuli, Dipoli. At 9:15 to 10:30.
  01.12. Art of Research conference
  Keynote lecture. Laura Beloff: Thinking Terrestrial.
  In the space Lumituuli, Dipoli. At 9:30 to 10:40.
  
  Art of Research conference: conference programme: https://artofresearch2023.aalto.fi/
  

  06.12. No session
  

  13.12. Seminar presentations and discussion
  Conclusion of course.
  

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