Lecturers
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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.
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Week 1 | Tuesday, 04.05. | Wednesday, 05.05. | Thursday, 06.05. | Friday, 07.05. |
| morning | 9:00-11:00 ZOOM 11:00-12:00 ZOOM Introduction "Metabolic perspective on/in space" | 9:00 | 9:00 + alternating exercise "Vegetalize", "Spatialize" | 9:00 |
| 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" | "Leverage Points" |
| Week 2 | Tuesday, 11.05. | Wednesday, 12.05. | Thursday, 13.05. | Friday, 14.05. |
| morning | Individual Work: "Leverage Points" | Individual Work: Task Phase 1 | AUFFAHRT | Individual work: Task Phase 2 |
| afternoon | 15:30-17:00 ZOOM 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 1 | Group work: prototype 1 |
| afternoon | 15:30-17:00 ZOOM Presentation + discussion Task Phase 2 Groups + Concepts | group mentoring ZOOM (round 1 compulsory) | Group work: prototype 1 | Group work: prototype 1 |
| Week 4 | Tuesday, 25.05. | Wednesday, 26.05. | Thursday, 27.05. | Friday, 28.05. |
| morning | Group work: | Group work: final prototype | Group work: final prototype | Group work: final prototype |
| afternoon | 15:30-17:00 ZOOM milestone presentation | group mentoring ZOOM (round 2 compulsory) | final prototype | Group work: final prototype |
| Week 5 | Tuesday, 01.06. | Wednesday, 02.06. | Thursday, 03.06. | Friday, 04.06. |
| morning | Group work: final prototype | Group work: final prototype | Group work: final prototype | Group work: final prototype |
| afternoon | Group work: free mentoring | Group work: free mentoring | Group work: free mentoring | Group work: free mentoring |
| Week 6 | Tuesday, 08.06. | Wednesday, 09.06. | Thursday, 10.06. | Friday, 11.06. |
| morning | Group work: final prototype | Group work: final prototype | 9:00-12:00 final presentation | documentation |
| afternoon | Group work: free mentoring | Group work: free mentoring | 14:00 feedback session | documentation |
Literature
- Donella Meadows: Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System.
- Meredith Sattler, Carolina Rodriguez. Translating Ecological Systems Models into Generative, Real-Time, Form-Based Visualizations.
- Georges Perec: Träume von Räumen (Auszug dt.), Espèces d'espace (extrait fr.). (per email)
- Natasha Myers: A Kria for Cultivating your Inner Plant.
- Bourdieu, Pierre (1989) Sozialer Raum, symbolischer Raum. In: Dünne J., Raumtheorie - Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, Suhrkamp 2006, 354-368. (per email)
- Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (per email)
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