Lecturers
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This year’s edition of Spatial Interaction takes place in collaboration with the organization of Labör. Labör is an experimental meeting space in a former coppersmith's workshop near Oerlikon station. It is located on the MFO site, a former machine factory whose conversion and further development is currently being promoted by the city of Zurich. In this development Labör puts an emphasis on circularity.
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Week 1 | Monday, 21.04. | Tuesday, 22.04. | Wednesday, 23.04. | Thursday, 24.04. |
morning | holiday | 09:00 Kick-off & Introduction | 09:00 - 12:00 Exercise 1: Conceptual Speed Dating | 09:00 -12:00 Task Leverage Points - Recherche |
afternoon | 13:30 Meeting at Labör with Nora Gailer | 13:30 - 17:00 Task Leverage Points | 13:00 - 17:00 Task Leverage Points - Mapping & Speculation | |
Week 2 | Monday, 28.04. | Tuesday, 29.04. | Wednesday, 30.04. | Thursday, 01.05. |
morning | [start 10:40 after theory] 11:00-12:00 Task Leverage Points -presentation | 09:00 - 12:00 Ideation Exercises Morphological Grid & Brainstorm | Concept Development in groups | holiday |
afternoon | 13:00-14:20 Task Leverage Point -presentation 14:30 Task AI expert discussion | Define Groups, Q&A Concept Development | Concept Development in groups | |
Week 3 | Monday, 05.05. | Tuesday, 06.05. | Wednesday, 07.05. | Thursday, 08.05. |
morning | [start 10:40 after theory] Finalize presentation of Conceptsconcepts | 09:00 - 12:00 Mentoring ZHdK ZT 5.G02 or Labör (Baustelle)? Concept + Prototype Development | Concept + Prototype Development in groups | [Bits and Atoms until 12:00] |
afternoon | 16:00 Public Presentation of Coincepts Concepts at Labör | 13:00 - 14:45 Mentoring Concept + Prototype Development | Concept + Prototype Development in groups | Concept + Prototype Development Cleanup (Open Labör) |
Labör optional | 12.00 – 13.00 Baustelle Zmittag | 16.00-19.00 Open Labör | ||
Week 4 | Monday, 12.05. | Tuesday, 13.05. | Wednesday, 14.05. | Thursday, 15.05. |
morning | [start 10:40 after theory] | [09-12:00 painting for BA Finals] Concept + Prototype Development | 09:00 - 12:00 Mentoring at ZHdK or Labör (Baustelle)? Group work/Production | Group work/Production |
afternoon | Concept + Prototype Development | 14:00 Prototype Presentation & Steering Meeting (ZT 5.F01 Seminarraum) | 13:00 - 14:45 Mentoring Group work/Production | [Bits and Atoms at 14:15] |
Week 5 | Monday, 19.05. | Tuesday, 20.05. | Wednesday, 21.05. | Thursday, 22.05. |
morning | [start 10:40 after theory] | Group work/ Production | Group work/ Production | documentation/reflection |
afternoon | Group work/ Production | 12:30 Mentoring (Atelier) | Public Final Presentation 12:00 - 13:30 place and mode to be defined by class Feedback 15:30 - 17:00 | documentation/reflection |
Phase 0: Kick-off, Inputs
Phase 1: Research, Idea Finding, First-tests, Group Building
Phase 2: Prototyping, Construction, Real-World-Application/Interventions, Iterations for Improvement
Phase 3: Preparation of the final presentation/Exhibition
Phase 4: Feedback, Analysis, Documentation
Literature
Georges Perec: , George (1974) Träume von Räumen (Auszug dt.), Espèces d'espace (extrait fr.). (via email)
Meadows, Donella (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a System.
Holmgren, David (2002) Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1989) Sozialer Raum, symbolischer Raum. In: Dünne J., Raumtheorie - Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, Suhrkamp 2006, 354-368. (via email)
Asenbaum, Hans (2020) Spatial Theory of Democracy. Talk given at Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Webinar 5: “Democracy & Space” [min 06:10-18:08].
Voss, Jan Peter (2020) The McDonaldization of Democracy: Translocal Space-making by innovating “deliberative mini-publics”. Talk given at Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Webinar 5: “Democracy & Space” [min 18:45-35:33].
Mendel, Maria (2019) The spatial ways democracy works: On the pedagogy of common places. Why, why now? https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523719839
Sprenger, Ramona (2023) Do not feed the google.
Morozov, Evgeny (2014) PUBLIC SPACE // Shared Spaces with Evgeny Morozov.
Morozov, Evgeny (2014) The rise of data and the death of politics.
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