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  • Urban Design Thinking

    Background. Midjourney.

    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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