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    Palimpsest of Place

    Designing with time in the urban context

    Studio illustration. Photo by Tuomas Uusheimo.
    Duration: III-V periods. Start on Wednesday 10.1.2024. 
    Tutoring each Wednesday at 13:15-17:00. 
    Lectures during III period at 9:15-12:00. 
    Location: Otakaari 1X, A122a.
    Teachers: prof. Karin Krokfors, lect. Tommy Lindgren, Architects Eero Lundén (Lundén Architecture) and Maija Parviainen (studio MPRA Architects).
    The Urban Design Studio program aims to generate knowledge of the dimension of time in urban design through analysis of multifaceted existing environments; through interdisciplinary research; by designing tools and typologies bridging the built, the natural and the social; and by projecting tangible resilient, sustainable urban futures.
    Working with the City of Lahti and taking as a starting point the goal of developing the area of Salpausselkä, the studio is structured as a set of workshops leading to an urban design process.
    The workshops help us define the 1. goals, 2. tools and 3. design criteria for an urban proposal for our site, dealing with the questions: how do the natural and artificial environments interact in time? What are the potentials in the urban environment, built and unbuilt of our site? How do you build frameworks for the future?
    The workshops will directly guide our design work, and the results of the studio will be articulated Urban Designs, providing a general conceptual plan of the site area and more detailed solutions in different scales –focusing on the issue of time in its different dimensions, answering the challenges of future transformations, through resilient solutions. The studio culminates in individual design work.
    In addition to the studio staff, visiting critics and commentators will join our reviews, and we will work closely together with our Partner for this studio, The City of Lahti.
    Attending the lecture series (during the first period of the Spring semester, on Wednesday mornings) is mandatory to the students of the studio.

    Schedule (subject to change)
    10.01. Start of the  Studio - Introduction -assignment due and presented. Workshop I given.
    17.01. Studio course site visit to Lahti.
    24.01. Workshop I presentation and discussion. Workshop II given.
    31.01. Workshop II working - schedule below
    07.02. Workshop II presentation and discussion. Workshop III given.
    14.02. Workshop III presentation and discussion.
    Remotely. Zoom: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/61379756709
    21.02. Discussion on all workshops and Urban Design assignment.
    Group discussions, bring sketches of your ideas concerning the future of our site - concepts, ideas, preliminary thoughts on paper. We'll discuss these, and ways forward in small tutoring groups.
    28.02. tutoring - individual discussion
    06.03. tutoring - individual discussion
    13.03. tutoring - group discussion
    20.03. tutoring - individual discussion
    27.03. I Mid-review. Location: Otakaari 1, U135a U7 PWC
    03.04. no official tutoring - 3.4.2024 tutoring (extra) schedule below
    10.04. tutoring - individual discussion
    17.04. tutoring - group discussion
    24.04. tutoring - individual discussion
    01.05. no tutoring
    08.05. II Mid-review.
    15.05. tutoring - individual discussion
    22.05. tutoring - individual discussion
    29.05. Final review. 9:15-17:00 Location: Learning Center: R015/113 Johanna