Spatial Interaction FS2022

Lecturers

Dr. Roman Kirschner
, Luke Franzke, Paulina Zybinska

Guest

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland

Timeframe

The module takes place over 6 weeks, from 3. May to 10. June 2022 from Tuesday to Friday, 9.00-17.00 - 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

Usually, we will meet at 4.T06. During the seminar we can also use the Praxis Poolraum in the Werkstatt Modellbau Projekte ZT 2.E20-UU.

Excursion

On may 5, we will visit the Grüezi Garte of IAD Alumni Doris Greenway-Brunschweiler in Allenwinden next to Zug. Meeting point at 10:10 in Unterstock, 6319 Allenwinden or in the train from Zürich (departure 9:10 from HB) to Zug (IR70) or the bus from Zug to Allenwinden (No.1 departure 9:40). End of excursion in Allenwinden around 16:00.

Overview and Objectives

The module 'Spatial Interaction' challenges students to deepen their practical and conceptual knowledge of human interactions in their immediate surroundings. 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.

Groups: 

1. Réjane, Silvan, Micaela, Aurelian (TVOC’s environmental combo, PM2.5 particle sensor )

2. Guan, Daniel, Janosch, Shafira (Infrared Matrix, Spectroscopy Sensor)

3. Johannes, Eleonora, Thore, Bamna (IR image)

4. Sandro, Fabrizio, Elena, Jolanda (PH sensor)

5. Nadia, Bin, Riva, Armin (Environmental combo, IMU)

6. Miguel, Dzhuliia, Nicola, Plengpai (Environmental combo)

Vernissage preferences:

Schedule

Literature

1. Donella Meadows: Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System.

2. Debra Solomon and Caroline Nevejan: Soil in the city - The Socio-Environmental Substrate.

3. María Puig de la Bellacasa: Soil Times - The Pace of Ecological Care.

4. Meredith Sattler, Carolina Rodriguez. Translating Ecological Systems Models into Generative, Real-Time, Form-Based Visualizations.

5. Georges Perec: Träume von Räumen (Auszug dt.), Espèces d'espace (extrait fr.). (via email)

6. Natasha Myers: A Kria for Cultivating your Inner Plant.

7. Bourdieu, Pierre (1989) Sozialer Raum, symbolischer Raum. In: Dünne J., Raumtheorie - Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, Suhrkamp 2006, 354-368. (via email)

8. Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (via 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

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 lengths 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. Exercise Results (Spatialize, Vegetalize, Leverage Points) (6.5.)

2. Concept (11.5.)

3. Milestone presentation prototype 1 (20.5.)

4. Vernissage (3.6.)

5. Final internal presentation (9.6.)