Urban Planning and Design II introduces innovative approaches to city space and its formation. The course invites students to make an experiential analysis as well as spatial and artistic experiments. During the course, the student learns different tools to understand urban space from individual, communal, and societal perspectives. Through embodied and situated learning, critical readings, and discussions, and creative artistic tasks, the course delves into the social dimensions of the built environment and the production of (social) space to illustrate how urban space is a contested (political) arena: at once a space of power and of possibilities!
Throughout the course, students engage with issues of socio-spatial and environmental (in)justice, democracy, and (un)sustainability through which they learn to scrutinize current modes of urbanization and urban planning and envisage emancipatory and just forms of spatial production.
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