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Spatial Interaction FS2021

Lecturers

Dr. Roman Kirschner
, Florian Bruggisser

Guest

Julian Chollet

Timeframe

The module takes place over 6 weeks, from 04.05.21 to 11.06.21 from Tuesday to Friday, 9.30-17.00 - see timetable below for detailed hours and classrooms. Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, assignments and independent study blocks. Projects are conducted individually or in a team of three students at most.

Room

DIGITAL CLASSROOM with many exceptions:

5.-7.5.: IAD Projektraum and 4K15 are available for us during the workshop with Julian Chollet

17.5.-11.6.: Modellbau Projekte ZT 2.E20-UU

Zoom Room: https://zhdk.zoom.us/j/4710337215 (passphrase: 975345)


Overview and Objectives

The module 'Spatial Interaction' challenges students to deepen their practical and conceptual knowledge of human interactions in their immediate surroundings. Due to the Covid-19 situation, the seminar can follow different paths. In the best case scenario, the student's output can contribute to an exhibition in Venice during the Biennale of Architecture. In a scenario with restrictive travelling options, the studio takes place in Zurich only. Starting from a location in Zurich where public life and „tamed nature“ overlap, students will develop spatio-technical frameworks for situated interactions. The student projects will connect people and environmental processes with the aim of investigating local impacts of urban (or everyday?) behaviour as well as long-distance effects of individual actions. They will learn how to interface the present mesocosm (collecting environmental data, identifying relationships) and how to anticipate/experiment with advanced techniques like remote sensing or machine vision. Designing in such situations requires the development of strategies for public outreach and communication as well as basic knowledge of intervening in complex systems. Students will work in groups and in a form of self-governed organization developed specifically for this course.

Schedule


Week 1

Tuesday, 04.05.

Wednesday, 05.05.

Thursday, 06.05.

Friday, 07.05.

morning

9:00-11:00 ZOOM
presentation Bis & Atoms IV

11:00-12:00 ZOOM Introduction "Metabolic perspective on/in space"

9:00
Workshop with
Julian Chollet

Stadionbrache: Location Mapping

9:00
Workshop Julian
Projetkraum + Stadionbrache: Location Mapping

+ alternating exercise "Vegetalize", "Spatialize"

9:00
Workshop Julian



afternoon

13:00-14:00 ZOOM Introduction Leverage points and Organisation

read Maedows "Leverage Points"

Workshop Julian Stadionbrache: Location Mapping

+ alternating exercise "Vegetalize", "Spatialize"

Workshop Julian

+ alternating exercise "Vegetalize", "Spatialize"


Individual Work:
"Leverage Points"
Week 2

Tuesday, 11.05.

Wednesday, 12.05.Thursday, 13.05.Friday, 14.05.
morningIndividual Work:
"Leverage Points"		Individual Work:
Task Phase 1

AUFFAHRT



Individual work: Task Phase 2

afternoon

15:30-17:00 ZOOM
presentation + discussion "Vegetalize", "Spatialize" + "Leverage Points"

Intro Task Phase 1: action-effects research in urban ecologies + related art & design projects


15:30-17:00 ZOOM Presentation + discussion Task Phase 1

Start Task phase 2: concept development


Individual work: Task Phase 2

15:30-17:00 ZOOM Presentation + discussion Task Phase 2 Concepts

Week 3

Tuesday, 18.05.

Wednesday, 19.05.Thursday, 20.05.Friday, 21.05.
morning

Individual work: Task Phase 2 group building + concept preparation

Group work: Concept finalization

Group work:  prototype 1Group work: 
prototype 1
afternoon

Group work: Concept finalization

group mentoring ZOOM (round 1 compulsory) Doodle

Group work: prototype 1Group work: 
prototype 1
Week 4

Tuesday, 25.05.

Wednesday, 26.05.Thursday, 27.05.Friday, 28.05.
morning

Group work: 
prototype 1

Group work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype
afternoon

15:30-17:00 ZOOM milestone presentation
prototype 1

group mentoring ZOOM (round 2 compulsory)


Group work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype
Week 5Tuesday, 01.06.Wednesday, 02.06.Thursday, 03.06.Friday, 04.06.
morningGroup work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype
afternoon

Group work: 
final prototype

free mentoring

Group work: 
final prototype

free mentoring

Group work: 
final prototype

free mentoring

Group work: 
final prototype

free mentoring

Week 6Tuesday, 08.06.Wednesday, 09.06.Thursday, 10.06.Friday, 11.06.
morningGroup work: 
final prototype		Group work: 
final prototype		9:00-12:00 final presentationdocumentation
afternoon

Group work: 
final prototype

free mentoring

Group work: 
final prototype

free mentoring

13:00 feedback sessiondocumentation


Literature


  1. Donella Meadows: Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System.
  2. Meredith Sattler, Carolina Rodriguez. Translating Ecological Systems Models into Generative, Real-Time, Form-Based Visualizations.
  3. Georges Perec: Träume von Räumen (Auszug dt.), Espèces d'espace (extrait fr.). (per email)
  4. Natasha Myers: A Kria for Cultivating your Inner Plant.
  5. Bourdieu, Pierre (1989) Sozialer Raum, symbolischer Raum. In: Dünne J., Raumtheorie - Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, Suhrkamp 2006, 354-368. (per email)
  6. Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (per email)

Further Reading

  1. Morton E. O'Kelly: Spatial Interaction.
  2. Baccini, et. al.(2012) Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design, MIT Press
  3. González de Molina, Manuel, et al. (2014) The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change, Springer
  4. Gillian Barker et al.: Entangled Life. Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences. (2014)
  5. Jakob von Uexüll: Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen. Ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten. (1956)
  6. Massey, Doreen (2009) Concepts of space and power in theory and in political practice, Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica 55, 15-26
  7. Mol, Arthur P. J., et al. (2018) Zur Umweltsoziologie der Netzwerke und Flows. In: Groß M. (ed) Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 140–153
  8. Nelson, Mark (2018) Pushing our limits: Insights from Biosphere 2, University of Arizona Press

      (provided on request)


Technical Inputs

Please have a look at the special page about Computer Vision from Bits & Atoms IV.

Mentoring


We will prepare doodles for mentoring with time slots of different length depending on the progress of the overall project. Reserve your slot and try to be on time. Questions can be asked anytime – also via email.

Presentations


  1. Exercises (Vegetalize, Spatialize, Leverage Points)(everybody)
  2. Task Phase 1 (everybody)
  3. Task Phase 2 (everybody)
  4. Task Phase 2 - Second Stage (informal – some approaches might not be presentable at this time. But if you want your project to be discussed by the whole group, present it here! Otherwise show up for a mandatory mentoring the same or the following day.)
  5. Final (this really counts!)


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