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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Barbara Maçaes e Costa (barbara.macaesecosta@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Maps are visual tools for thinking about the world at many scales. They shape scientific hypotheses, organize political and military power, limit the boundaries of private property, and reflect cultural ideas about nature and the landscape. To the extent that our worldviews inform our perceptions and positions, maps have the power to actually make the territories they represent and construct the subjects that gaze upon them. Throughout Western modernity, cartographic reason has mediated this epistemology preponderantly. Cartesian perspectives lineated the world with respect to a fixed anthropocentric subject position, and ‘God’s eye views’ surveyed the world from an abstract elevated ‘nowhere’. Cartography became the enterprise concerned with the analysis and measurement of the res extensa, the ‘mirror of nature’ out-there and separate from ourselves. In today’s context of ecological crisis and post-colonial critique, cartographic reason and its underlying Cartesian gaze have been blamed for reinforcing our imperial perception of nature as a domination-ready resource. Amidst wider struggles for environmental justice, we need to promote ‘ways of seeing’ the land that convey a political ecology based on the decentering of human sovereignty, in line with many long-standing non-Western views of nature as a pluriverse of agents. Mapping Infrastructure and Urbanization has the goal of using cartography critically and self-consciously in the act of tracing large-scale territorial infrastructures and understanding their hierarchical and ideological functioning as frame for urban growth and land occupation. |
| Lernziele | The goal of this course is to teach students to identify large-scale territorial structures, to understand their hierarchical and ideological functioning, and to acquire a visual language that can convey these findings clearly in a map. Special focus will be given to the role played by infrastructure as frame and support for urban growth and land occupation. The course will follow a mapping method of system layering evoked by André Corboz’s seminal text “The Land as Palimpsest”, which we will read and often refer to in class. CAD, Adobe Illustrator and hand drawing skills will also be taught and explored in class. |
| Literatur | Course Literature: André Corboz, 1983. “The Land as Palimpsest” in: Diogenes, Vol 31, 121: pp. 12–34. |
| Bemerkungen | This exercise (Übung) will be taught by Bárbara Maçães Costa MA Doctoral assistant to Prof. Harry Gugger |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | The course is only open for students of the MSG Critical Urbanisms |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Pass / Fail |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |