Lecturers
Dr. Roman Kirschner , Luke Franzke, Paulina Zybinska
Guest
Timeframe
The module takes place over 6 weeks, from 32. May to 109. June 2022 2023 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.
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Groups:
Réjane, Silvan, Micaela, Aurelian (TVOC’s environmental combo, PM2.5 particle sensor )
Guan, Daniel, Janosch, Shafira (Infrared Matrix, Spectroscopy Sensor)
Johannes, Eleonora, Thore, Bamna (IR image)
Sandro, Fabrizio, Elena, Jolanda (PH sensor)
Nadia, Bin, Riva, Armin (Environmental combo, IMU)
Miguel, Dzhuliia, Nicola, Plengpai (Environmental combo)
Vernissage preferences:
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Réjane, Silvan, Micaela, Aurelian
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stadionbrache
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Works in Bad Weather
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2. Guan, Daniel, Janosch, Shafira
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3. Johannes, Eleonora, Thore, Bamna
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Or somewhere outside undercover.
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4. Sandro, Fabrizio, Elena, Jolanda
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Undercover inside or outside.
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5. Nadia, Bin, Riva, Armin
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Rather reschedule
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6. Miguel, Dzhuliia, Nicola, Plengpai
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Works in Bad Weather
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Schedule
Old dates that are unconfirmed at in teal.
New dates for 2023 in black.
Week 1 | Tuesday, 0302.05. 4.T06 | Wednesday, 0403.05. 4.T06 | Thursday, 0504.05. | Friday, 0605.05. 4.T06 |
morning | 9:00 Kick-off & Introduction 10:30 Presentation MA Design Studio 2 | 9:00 Sensor Exercise 1 (LF, PZ) 10:30 Stadionbrache Visit | 10:00 - 16:00 Visit at Grüezi Garte (see “Excursion” above) | Exercise System-Flow-Analysis/Mapping Leverage Points |
afternoon | 14:00 Lecture/ Workshop Toland | 15:00 Susanne Gruber of Verein Stadionbrache Exercise Spatialize | Sensor Exercise 2 (LF, PZ) Exercise Vegetalize | 14:00 Presentation Exercise Results |
Week 2 | Tuesday, 109.05. 4.K16 | Wednesday, 1110.05. 4.K16 (without MA students) | Thursday, 1211.05. 4.K16 | Friday, 1312.05. 4. K16 |
morning | Group work: (without MA students) Concept preparation | Group work: Concept preparation (with MA students!) | Group work: Concept finalization | Group work: experimentation |
afternoon | Group work: (with MA students) Concept preparation | Group work: Concept preparation 14:00 Susanne Gruber of Verein Stadionbrache 15:00 Mentoring BA(Concept discussions) | Group work: Concept finalization | 13:00 Steering MA + BA (RK online,LF, PZ) |
Week 3 | Tuesday, 1716.05. | Wednesday, 1817.05.(MA students: Rasa) 4.K16 | Thursday, 1918.05. (MA students: Rasa) 4.K16 | Friday, 2019.05. (MA students: Rasa) 4.K16 |
morning | Group work: experimentation | Group work: prototype 1 | Group work: prototype 1 | Group work: prototype 1 |
afternoon | Group work: prototype 1 | 13:00 Mentoring (RK online,LF, PZ) | Group work: prototype 1 | 13:00 Milestone presentation |
Week 4 | Tuesday, 2423.05. 5. K01 | Wednesday, 2524.05. 4.T06 | Thursday, 2625.05. | Friday, 2726.05. |
morning | Group work: prototype 2 | Group work: prototype 2 | AUFFAHRT | Group work: final prototype |
afternoon | 13:00 Mentoring (RK,LF, PZ) Group work: prototype 2 | 16:00 Steering-Meeting | Group work: final prototype | |
Week 5 | Tuesday, 3130.05. 4. T06 | Wednesday, 0131.06. | Thursday, 0201.06. 4.T06 | Friday, 0302.06. 4.T06 |
morning | 9:00 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 (Video shooting & participants interviews) |
Week 6 | Tuesday, 0706.06. | Wednesday, 0807.06. 4.T06 | Thursday, 0908.06. 5.T04 | Friday, 1009.06. 4. T06 |
morning | documentation / reflection | documentation / reflection | 9:00-12:00 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 |
Literature
Donella Meadows: Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System.
Debra Solomon and Caroline Nevejan: Soil in the city - The Socio-Environmental Substrate.
María Puig de la Bellacasa: Soil Times - The Pace of Ecological Care.
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.). (via 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. (via email)
Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (via email)
Further Reading
Morton E. O'Kelly: Spatial Interaction.
Baccini, et. al.(2012) Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design, MIT Press
González de Molina, Manuel, et al. (2014) The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change, Springer
Gillian Barker et al.: Entangled Life. Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences. (2014)
Jakob von Uexüll: Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen. Ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten. (1956)
Massey, Doreen (2009) Concepts of space and power in theory and in political practice, Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica 55, 15-26
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
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
Exercise Results (Spatialize, Vegetalize, Leverage Points) (6.5.)
Concept (11.5.)
Milestone presentation prototype 1 (20.5.)
Vernissage (3.6.)
Final internal presentation (9.6.)