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FU 18: Workshop 4
FU 18: Workshop 4Details
| ISCED ’97 | 21 - Arts |
| Design Lab | Design Lab 4 - City & Communication |
| Credits | 4 ECTS |
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Description
DESCRIPTION. Communication technologies and travel has allowed people to establish social ties across vast distances. This course explores cultural assimilation, acculturation, reconfiguration, and subversion as practiced by communities and groups who are no longer nation-bound. Students research larger networks of flows that cross urban, regional, and national boundaries. They analyse the circulation of goods, ideas, policies, people and finances as new organisational forms and find points of intervention in order to improve them. Emphasis is placed on creating and managing multiple partnerships, both in terms of communication and work flow. Students also incorporate those affected by a project into the design process. They are expected to identify and contact community members in order to conduct informed interventions into global flows. As this project can take on different shapes (systems, protocols, sites, spaces, maps, services), students must be able to defend the form their project takes. The workshop of the design Lab 4 titled City & Communication faces this keynote.
The role of second-semester students in the workshops differs significantly from that of the first-semester students. Instructors expect more leadership, organisational energy, and facilitation of group collaboration. This means that second-semester students are encouraged to facilitate the integration of the team’s efforts and to support the overall success of the group.
Special emphasis is placed on students’ ability to articulate a well-founded design brief and to assess the most appropriate forms of response. Students also familiarise themselves with the design process for complex projects done by collaborative teams. They examine workflow and process in order to build a sound foundation for creating innovative design.
SYLLABUS. To be filled with 500 words maximum.
TYPE OF ASSESSMENT. To be filled with 500 words maximum.
ASSESSMENT MATERIALS. To be filled with 500 words maximum.
ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. To be filled with 5 books maximum.
