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Lecturers

Roman Kirschner
(RK), Vinzenz Leutenegger (VL)

Collaboration

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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In this year's edition of Spatial Interaction, we focus on interactions in public space that build on playful formats for circular exchange and extensions of use. In collaboration with Labör (see 'collaboration' above), we explore the new Zurich development area at the MFO site and search for available and non-privatised resources (material and social). We ask ourselves the question of the valorisation of resources, who can lay claim to them and to what extent, and how their actual use should be negotiated.

In addition to the production facilities at ZHdK, we can use Labör's new building as an on-site base. In groups, we develop ideas and concepts for involvement and participation in this area in transition. We implement the developed approaches in prototypes that expand the existing environment and its current use with new patterns of movement, forms of exchange and encounter, digital layers and technology-supported spatial experiences.

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Ultimately, the outcomes of the module will envision ways ofreconfiguring the potential of available resources, human interrelations and local knowledge at a specific publicly accessible location. We approach the topic with prototypes and design interventions that leverage our technical skills and designerly perspective. The actual format of the end results will be developed through in-class discussions and steering meetings.Objectives:

1. Reflect on AI's Impact: Investigate the current and potential implications of AI on democratic and political processes, considering issues such as privacy, bias, polarisation and social and behavioural manipulation.

2. Explore Spatial Dynamics: Explore how physical public spaces are being reshaped by AI and how the future might be reimagined using AI to foster inclusivity, civic engagement, greater awareness or critical thinking on the topic.

3. Prototype Experimental Futures: Create tangible prototypes and/or interventions that embody new ways of ‍‍‍living with AI in public spaces and in democratic processes. Record your results extensively with photos, video and audio.

Schedule

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Task ? Introduction Beginn wegen Theorie? presentation and Task 2 Introduction RK(Progress Session)Beginn wegen Theorie

Concept Development

10:30 Concept Mentoring (Via Zoom) bis 14:45 - 17:00 Concept Mentoring (Via Zoom)16:00 Check-In (Via Zoom)Beginn wegen Theorie( Painting )( Painting for BA Finals) ( Seminarraum) (Atelier) ab Beginn wegen Theorie00 30

Week 1	Monday, 21.04.	Tuesday, 22.04.	Wednesday, 23.04.	Thursday, 24.0504.
morning9	holiday	09:00 Kick-off & Introduction ZT 4.K15 Seminarraum	09:30 -12:00	Exercise 1 Spatializeat Labör	09:30 -12:00 Task Working Points at Labör
afternoon	→ Labör		Task 1 execution 13:30 Meeting at Labör with Nora Gailer + introduction to the space, its values and its environment	13:30 - 17:00 Leverage Points -Conceptual Speed Dating ZT 4.K15 Seminarraum	13:00 - 17:00 Task Working Points
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	RK(Progress Session)	afternoon	Task 2 Initial Investigation 16:00 Task 2 discussion (4.T06 Seminarraum)	Working Points -presentation ZT 4.K16	09:00 - 12:00 Ideation Exercises Morphological Grid & Brainstorm ZT 5.G02	Concept Development in groups	holiday
afternoon	13:00-14:20 Task Working Points -presentation 14:30 Task AI expert discussion ZT 4.K16	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]	10:30 Task 2 presentation & discussion (Zoom presentations incl. AI chatbots)	Finalize presentation of concepts	09:00 - 12:00	Mentoring ZHdK IAD Projektraum or ZT 5.G02 Concept + Prototype Development	Concept + Prototype Development in groups	[Bits and Atoms	until 12:00]
afternoon	Concept Development	16:00 Public Presentation of Concepts at Labör Presentation Requirements	13:00 - 15:00 Mentoring Concept + Prototype Development	Concept + Prototype Development in groups	Concept + Prototype Development	Cleanup (Open Labör)
Labör optional		12.00 – 13.00 Baustelle Zmittag 13.30 – 17.00 Mit-Bau-Labör		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		13:00 - 15:00 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
afternoon13:00 Technical Support LF (Atelier)	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

Groups

• Noel, Joel, Meagan

• Nadja, Thinle, Leroy

• Nico, Elena, Pablo

• Lola, Tommaso, Guolong

• Anna, Lorena, Iris

Literature

1. Georges Perec: , George (1974) Träume von Räumen (Auszug dt.), Espèces d'espace (extrait fr.). (via email)

2. Meadows, Donella (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a System.

3. Boch, Ralph et al. (2021) Paths towards a circular society: The Potential of Social Design for Social Transformation. Social Design Lab.

4. Suurenbroek, Frank et al. (2019) Responsive public spaces: Exploring the use of interactive technology in the design of public spaces. Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Urban Technology.

5. Wall Kimmerer, Robin (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.

6. Holmgren, David (2002) Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability.

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

8. AsenbaumReider, Hans Rebecca (2020) Spatial Theory of Democracy. Talk given at Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Webinar 5: “Democracy & Space” [min 06:10-18:08].

9. 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].

10. Mendel, Maria (2019) The spatial ways democracy works: On the pedagogy of common places. Why, why now? https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523719839

11. Sprenger, Ramona (2023) Do not feed the google.

12. Morozov, Evgeny (2014) PUBLIC SPACE // Shared Spaces with Evgeny Morozov.

13. Morozov, Evgeny (2014) The rise of data and the death of politics2009) Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities.

14. Nelson, Mark (2018) Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2.

Further Reading

1. O'Kelly, Morton E. (2014) Spatial Interaction.

2. Weaver, Duncan (2020) Spatiality and World Politics. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.562

3. Baccini, et. al.(2012) Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design, MIT Press

4. González de Molina, Manuel, et al. (2014) The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change, Springer

5. Massey, Doreen (2009) Concepts of space and power in theory and in political practice, Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica 55, 15-26

6. 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

7. Asenbaum, Hans (2020) Spatial Theory of Democracy. Talk given at Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Webinar 5: “Democracy & Space” [min 06:10-18:08].

8. 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].

9. Mendel, Maria (2019) The spatial ways democracy works: On the pedagogy of common places. Why, why now? https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523719839

10. Sprenger, Ramona (2023) Do not feed the google.

11. Morozov, Evgeny (2014) PUBLIC SPACE // Shared Spaces with Evgeny Morozov.

12. Morozov, Evgeny (2014) The rise of data and the death of politics.

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.