- Enseignant-e: Armelle Choplin
- Enseignant-e: Carole Lanoix
- Enseignant-e: Eloise Pelaud
1. Course at a glance:
"Material Matters: Rethiking, Redesign and Re-enchanting our urban futures"
12 credits
136 hours : 12 weeks/2 days (Thursday and Friday)
Collaborations with urbaMonde and UrbaSen, En Commun, Fact Sahel, French Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Cabanon Vertical, ATBA, Canton de Genève etc.
Faculty: Armelle CHOPLIN, Carole LANOIX, Eloïse PELAUD
2. Course objectives
This course is designed to address the several challenges at stakes in thinking through and implementing the SDGs while planning, managing and organizing ‘city-life’, crossing Global South and North experiences. How to integrate urban planning in SDGs? How to ensure environmental and climate change practices and policies to promote sustainable cities? How to empower inhabitants to build the city from in a bottom-up approach?
The course aims to:
1) critically analyze and question the variety of terms, concepts, semantics and practices of materiality in urbanism and tactical/agile/temporary urban planning;
2) explore and produce an exhibition on materiality in city by using learned methodologies on Video, Photo, sketching and mapping
3) develop a hand-on approach, applying these theories and concepts in selected sites, in Geneva (Switzerland) and in Dakar (Senegal).
This new edition of the Workshop is entitled: "Material Matters: Rethiking, Redesign and Re-enchanting our urban futures"
The project will be organized around the concept of materiality in the city to explore the potentiality of a material in the city and in urban planning ; to analyze the relation of a material with the city construction and the living; to explore the city through a material of your choice.
Student’s project will be organized in 3 steps : Observation , Prospective, Imagination
Students will be required to take part in weekly classes from February to May 2022. This workshop is an ‘experimental lab’ for generating innovative ideas and creative thinking towards the building economic, social and infrastructural potentials of urban futures. Students are also invited to experience professional life: developing a project mode approach, experiencing collective thinking, etc. Starting from a multi-disciplinary standpoint, the collective projects produced will combine both theoretical knowledge and technical skills.
The workshop will be held every Thursday and with substantial seminars providing conceptual and practical knowledge on interrelated issues such as urban and sustainable planning, materiality in the city, collaborative approach, co-design. The workshop will provide practical trainings on concrete tools on Photo, Video, Sketching, Mapping and exhibition, etc. Friday will be dedicated to Individual and team work.
3. Student Outputs and Evaluation
Individual work (50%):
Artists’presentation
Group work (50%):
Students will be organized in groups. The final project will be a collective work based on data collection and field work. This final work will be an exhibition and presented to a steering committee at the end of the semester. A final production is expected in May (presentation might take the form of a report, a video, a webdoc…) and will be integrated into students’ projects portfolio