Working individually, students develop designs for a sample building in response to a brief which speaks to the programme’s overall annual theme....

Working individually, students develop designs for a sample building in response to a brief which speaks to the programme’s overall annual theme. Students are taught the skills and methods to think to think creatively and innovatively in an architectural context, using different media and scales for their proposals.

Course Objectives 

· The module (a half-unit) will examine the latest concepts and approaches to the study of cultural memory. The focus will be on the...

This module will consist of a focused immersive (online) or field trip-based engagement with a selected partner city. It will involve real time...

This module will consist of a focused immersive (online) or field trip-based engagement with a selected partner city. It will involve real time collaboration with different actors and organisations in the selected city, including interaction with students from partner institutions in that city, and option for in-situ fieldwork. It will build core skills in the ethics of global urban practice through close collaboration with scholars and practitioners in the partner city. Choices of activities (immersive/ online or fieldtrip) will be offered for selected partner cities, within the overall module rubric. It will dovetail with the Engaged Urbanism and Cities Methodologies courses, reinforcing learning of different ways to know and understand urban life, and enabling practical engagement with multidisciplinary approaches and practices through which the futures of cities are being shaped. The course will focus on building a pedagogy and urban practice which supports the engaged and collaborative production of urban knowledge, policy and interventions through distinctive Co-Laboratory methods working with different actors e.g. government, communities, private sector, international agencies. It will consolidate the city-focused learning on global urban history and theory in the Cities Studio modules, through collaborative online and/or in situ engagements with different aspects of urban practice. Close investigation of specific elements of urban processes in the selected city will be facilitated t medical issues preventing travel.