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Lecturers

Dr. Roman Kirschner
, Luke Franzke, Paulina Zybinska

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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.

BA Students

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MA Students:

  • Guan Arobei

  • Sandro Beti

  • Nicola Bischof

  • Eleonora Bonorva

  • Micaela Brazerol

  • Elena De Carlo

  • Dzhuliia Kolodko

  • Bin Martig

  • Johannes Reck

  • Thore Reigber

  • Réjane Schrago

  • Miguel Seabra

  • Janosch Tillich

  • Daniel Treystman

  • Silvan Weber

  • Nadia Westermann

  • Fabrizio Willi

Students MA: 

  • Aurelian Ammon

  • Armin Aschenbrenner

  • Duy Bui

  • Bamna Dadashzadeh Ghasabeh

  • Jolanda Jerg

  • Shafira Nugroho

  • Riva Pinto

  • Plengpai Ratnajarn

Groups: 

  1. Group members: Réjane, Silvan, Aurelian

  2. Group members: Guan, Daniel, Janosch, Shafira

  3. Group members: Micaela, Fabrizio, Armin

  4. Group members: Johannes, Eleonora, Thore, Bamna

  5. Group members: Sandro, Elena, Jolanda

  6. Group members: Nadia, Nicola, Riva

  7. Group members: Miguel, Dzhuliia, Bin, Plengpai

Schedule

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Week 1

Tuesday, 03.05.

Wednesday, 04.05.

Thursday, 05.05.

Friday, 06.05.

morning

9:00 Kick-off & Introduction

10:30 Presentation MA Design Studio 2

Stadium Brache Stadionbrache Visit

Sensor Exercise 1 (LF, PZ)

Grutzi Garten Visit

Sensor Exercise 2 (LF, PZ)

[RK: BA Mentoring]

Visit at Grüezi Garte

https://gruezigarte.ch/

(Allenwinden, IAD Alumni Doris Greenway-Brunschweiler)

Exercise System-Flow-Analysis/Mapping

Leverage Points

[RK: BA Mentoring]

afternoon

Group Icebreaking(?) Exercise

Workshop Toland?Guided Exercise Leverage Points?

Exercise Spatialize, Remote Environment (& Inhabitant)

Sensor Exercise 2 (LF, PZ)

Exercise Vegetalize

14:00 Presentation Exercise Results

Week 2

Tuesday, 10.05. (

without MA students)

Wednesday, 11.05.

Thursday, 12.05.

Friday, 13.05.

morningSpatial experience data exercise

Group work: Concept preparation

Group work: Concept preparation (with MA students!)

[RK+KF PROBLEM: MA Progress Session]

Group work: Concept finalization

Group work:  experimentation

afternoon

Spatial experience data exercise

Steering-Meeting

Group work: Concept preparation

Group work: Concept preparation

15:00 Steering-Meeting (Concept discussions) (incl. Pizza at Stadionbrache?)

Mentoring (RK online,LF, PZ)

Group work:  experimentation

Week 3 

Tuesday, 17.05.
(MA students: with Rasa)

Wednesday, 18.05.(MA students: Rasa)

Thursday, 19.05. (MA students: Rasa)

Friday, 20.05. (MA students: Rasa)

morningIndividual work: Task Phase 2 + concept preparation

Group work:  experimentation

Group work:  prototype 1

Group work: Concept finalization  prototype 1

Group work:  prototype 1

[RK: BA Finals Mentoring]

afternoon

Group work: Concept finalization  prototype 1

Mentoring (RK online,LF, PZ)

Group work: prototype   prototype 1

Milestone presentation
prototype 1 &
Steering-Meeting

Group work: prototype 1

Week 4

Tuesday, 24.05.

Wednesday, 25.05.

Thursday, 26.05.

Friday, 27.05.

morning

Group work: prototype 2

Group work: final prototype prototype 2

[RK: BA Thesis Colloquium]

AUFFAHRT

Group work: final prototypeAUFFAHRT

[RK: BA Finals Mentoring]

afternoon

Mentoring (RK,LF, PZ)

Group work: prototype 2

16:00 Steering-Meeting (spät mit incl. Pizza auf at Stadionbrache?)

RK+KF Mentoring

Group work: final prototype

Week 5

Tuesday, 31.05.

Wednesday, 01.06.

Thursday, 02.06.

Friday, 03.06.

morning

Mentoring (RK online,LF, PZ)

Group 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

14:00 Vernissage/Blamage;

(Video shooting & participants interviews)

Week 6

Tuesday, 07.06.

Wednesday, 08.06.

Thursday, 09.06.

Friday, 10.06.

morning

documentation / reflection

documentation / reflection

9:00-12:00 Masters 00 MA students: Masters Thesis Development 1: Colloquium

documentation

afternoon

documentation / reflection

documentation / reflection

13:00-16:00 BA students : Final internal Presentation (MA giving feedback) + general Feedback

documentation

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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.). (per 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. (per via email)

  8. Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (per 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 Presss  (provided on request)Press

Technical Inputs

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

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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. Exercises (Exercise Results (Spatialize, Remote Environment (& Inhabitant?), Vegetalize, Spatialize, Leverage Points) (everybody6.5.)

    Task Phase 1 (everybody)

    Task Phase 2 (everybody)

    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.)

  2. Final (this really counts!Concept (11.5.)

  3. Milestone presentation prototype 1 (20.5.)

  4. Vernissage (3.6.)

  5. Final internal presentation (9.6.)