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URB-420 / 10 crédits

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Langue: Français

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Résumé

Atelier interdisciplinare de conception urbaine abordant site et territoire à travers divers systèmes urbains. Allie approches architecturales, infrastructurelles et sociales pour des interventions urbaines critiques et contextuelles.

Contenu

How can urban and territorial system respond to the multiple and complex challenges of the socio-ecological transition? The project-based studio combines theory and design to address the systemic socio-ecological transformation of cities and territories. Students develop multi-scalar, quantified and spatialized strategies in grounded contexts, integrating social, ecological and economic dimensions of design, with particular attention to metabolic processes, mobility, governance and planetary boundaries.

The studio addresses the systemic design of socio-ecological transition in cities and territories.

Main components :

  • Planetary boundaries and territorial implications
  • Urban and territorial metabolism (flows, stocks, entropy)
  • LCA of cities and territorial carbon/resources accounting
  • 2000-Watt society and fossil-free trajectories
  • Renewable energies at large scale
  • Biodiversity, agriculture and living systems
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Mobility systems and intensities of use
  • Soil typologies and land-use transitions
  • Offer / demand / stock reasoning applied to major flows
  • Multi-dimensional urban design (EUT + € + aesthetics + EMC2B logic)
  • Governance, political economy and power relations in territorial change
  • Social dimensions of urban design: socio-spatial justice equity and inclusivity

Pedagogical structure:

  • Combination of lectures, methodological workshops and project-design studio
  • 4–5 real case studies (Switzerland and Europe), with institutional or NGO partners
  • Groups of 3 students
  • Projects differing by context, spatial scale (neighborhood to region) and temporal scale (short-term implementation to long-term transition)
  • Sites accessible from Lausanne within low-carbon mobility constraints

 

Mots-clés

Urban and territorial metabolism; socio-ecological transition; planetary boundaries; LCA of cities; carbon accounting; resource accounting; entropy of cities; renewable energy systems; biodiversity; socio-spatial justice ; climate adaptation; mobility systems; multi-scalar design; systems thinking; governance; territorial strategy; data visualization; Sankey diagrams; prospective urbanism

Compétences requises

Cours prérequis indicatifs

Introductory courses in urban systems, environmental sciences, sustainability, or territorial planning

Concepts importants à maîtriser

  • Basic systems thinking
  • Basic socio-economic understanding
  • Fundamentals of energy and carbon reasoning
  • Quantitative reasoning and orders of magnitude
  • Basic cartographic and spatial representation skills

 

Méthode d'enseignement

  • Theoretical lectures on systemic urban transition
  • Methodological workshops (LCA, carbon accounting, metabolic diagrams, mobility modelling)
  • Studio-based project work in interdisciplinary teams
  • Site visits and meetings with institutional actors (e.g., territorial offices, transport agencies, NGOs)
  • Interim reviews and final jury with external experts
  • Critical seminars and collective debates

The course builds on prior teaching experiences such as "2050, sous le soleil exactement" (EPFL, 2015-2016) and the DPEA Architecture Post-Carbone (ENSA Paris-Est, 2013-2018), extending them within the MUS framework.

 

Travail attendu

  • Attendance to lectures and workshops
  • Data collection and processing
  • Urban and architectural theory and history of planification
  • Quantitative modelling (carbon, energy, mobility, resource flows)
  • Development of multi-scalar spatial scenarios
  • Production of maps, diagrams, Sankey visualizations and project representations
  • Physical and/or digital models
  • Oral presentations and participation in reviews
  • Engagement with academic and professional literature

 

Méthode d'évaluation

  • 60% Group project (quality of systemic analysis, integration of metrics and spatial design, coherence of strategy, representation)
  • 20% Individual contribution within the group (quantitative rigor, specific deliverables, engagement)
  • 20% Oral presentations and reviews (clarity, argumentation, critical positioning)

 

Ressources

Liens Moodle

Dans les plans d'études

  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Projet core
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Projet: 8 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: obligatoire

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