AR-301(a) / 12 credits

Teacher: Viganò Paola

Language: English

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Summary

The Studio explores the evolution of Parisian landscapes facing climate change. Through a deep reading of Paris to identify the various issues linked to the socio-ecological transition and its landscape repercussions, students will imagine and design possible futures for the metropolis.

Content

Keywords

Urban and natural Landscape, Climate change, Risks, Health, Life, Adaptation, Atlas, Scenarios

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

  • Elaborate a reading of the territory with strong on field appropriation
  • Assess / Evaluate critically the contemporary urban condition and landscape
  • Develop scenarios to address the issues of climate change regarding the landscapes
  • Develop inter-scalar strategies
  • Elaborate transcalar prototypes
  • Develop inter-scalar strategies
  • Elaborate transcalar prototypes

Teaching methods

The work is organized through a series of design operations:

- design as descriptive tool: fieldwork, deep reading of territorial figures through mapping and other representations;

- design as conceptual tool: socio-spatial prototypes designed as "concrete descriptions of future situations"

Students will also actively participate in seminars with local experts, researchers, stakeholders.

Expected student activities

Projective construction of transcalar images of the future of urban and natural landscape using videos, maps, architectural drawings, and models.

Understanding and interpretation of the proposed bibliography through short presentations.

 

Assessment methods

The materials produced by the student will be the basis of a presentation evaluated taking into account:

- the student's contribution to teamwork and individual

- the quality of the different representations and of the project

- the capacity to place the work in a broader context

- the deepening of the proposed literature

 

Supervision

Assistants Yes

Resources

Moodle Link

In the programs

  • Semester: Fall
  • Exam form: During the semester (winter session)
  • Subject examined: Studio BA5 (Viganò)
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 4 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Semester: Fall
  • Exam form: During the semester (winter session)
  • Subject examined: Studio BA5 (Viganò)
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 4 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Semester: Fall
  • Exam form: During the semester (winter session)
  • Subject examined: Studio BA5 (Viganò)
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 4 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Semester: Fall
  • Exam form: During the semester (winter session)
  • Subject examined: Studio BA5 (Viganò)
  • Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Project: 4 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks

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