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68725-01 - Seminar: Climate Urbanism (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2023 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Vanesa Castan Broto (vanesa.castanbroto@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Climate change demands urgent action. This call is heard most loudly in rapidly growing urban areas. Cities are key to implementing climate policy and planning. By focusing on cities as the most appropriate sites of action and prioritising the protection of infrastructures, climate urbanism is transforming the fabric of everyday life with dramatic consequences for urban inequality. This course examines the history, processes and implications of the rise of climate urbanism as a model for urban development. |
| Lernziele | - Understand climate urbanism and how it differs from other perspectives on urban change and urbanisation. - Generate and test different theories on how climate urbanism is performed and with what consequences for how we plan and govern our cities. - Outline different examples of how different social movements and institutions embrace, promote or contest climate urbanism. - Analyse the impact of climate urbanism transforming the physical and social fabric of urban life, including both socio-ecological transformations but also transformations in the fundamental assumptions of human existence. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Anmeldung: erforderlich; Abmeldung: nicht erforderlich |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | Siehe Einzeltermine | ||
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Montag 26.06.2023 | 10.00-17.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Dienstag 27.06.2023 | 10.00-17.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Mittwoch 28.06.2023 | 10.00-17.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Donnerstag 29.06.2023 | 10.00-17.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Freitag 30.06.2023 | 10.00-17.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Module |
Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften M.A. (Master Studienfach: Politikwissenschaft) Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Kulturtechnische Dimensionen (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken) Modul: Resources and Sustainability (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Outline of lectures Day 1, Monday: Climate urbanism in perspective: will discuss the raising of climate urbanism as a matter of concern in urban theory, grounded on the debates on cities and climate change and further analysis of the re-imagination of the entrepreneurial city. It will include a lecture in the morning. I will also introduce a case study that will be developed during the week, and we will have online interviews to investigate the case. The students will 3 write a briefing on the case in the afternoon as an individual assignment on simply mapping climate urbanism-related challenges in the case study. Day 2, Tuesday: Reimagining climate planning through an intersectional lens and the pitfalls of transformation theory: This session will discuss the challenges of rethinking planning to address the challenges of climate change focusing on radical perspectives on urban resilience and the rise of radical, feminist planning as an alternative. It will also explore how ideas of transformation may actually reinforce inequality in climate urbanism. It will include a planning proposal workshop in the afternoon in which small groups will discuss and map actors with influence and make planning proposals and present them to the group of students. Day 3, Wednesday: Unstable categories: queering and decolonising climate urbanism: This session will focus on challenging the categories of thought used to understand climate urbanism, focusing on decolonising and queer theory and also looking into their interaction. In particular, it will look into how queer theory destabilises notions of futurity in climate urbanism and how decolonisation challenges the utilitarian approaches that pervade much of climate theory. The lecture will be followed by a debate in which students will be asked to prepare alternative views on a problem. In the afternoon, students will apply the knowledge to review how these perspectives challenge the proposals made on day 2. Day 4, Thursday: The problem of knowledge: who knows what in climate urbanism: this lecture will explore two promising directions to advance debates on climate urbanism beyond its current impasse: an engagement with pluriverse design and design justice; and a focus on coproduction and its contradictions. In both cases, the objective is to challenge the processes of knowledge production and call out epistemic injustices that produce the current unequal forms of climate urbanism. In the afternoon, we will explore different responses. Students will be asked to develop short research proposals on climate urbanism that put design justice and local knowledge at their heart. Day 5, Friday: Did you say you wanted to change the world? Praxis perspectives on climate urbanism. The last day will be dedicated to reflecting on realistic ways of intervening in the world. First, we will discuss ideas on ‘praxis’ with a short lecture on critical theory in urban studies. Second, we will reflect on the different ways of intervention and map the pros and cons of working with different institutions. In the afternoon, we will review the corresponding urban chapters in the IPCC reports (urban box in Working Group I, Chapter 6 in Working Group II, Chapter 6 in Working Group III) and discuss gaps, alternatives and ways forward. The students’ evaluation will include a portfolio of assignments, including 1) Short essay on climate urbanism dilemmas in the case study (1000 words), Day 1 2) Refined planning and design proposals (1000 words) Days 2-4 3) Double essay on Critical Perspectives on Climate Urbanism (1000 words) and the Problem of Praxis (1000 words) Any elective seminar paper would have to relate to topic 3) |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |