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74176-01 - Kurs: Architecture of the Everyday (3 KP)

Semester Herbstsemester 2024
Angebotsmuster einmalig
Dozierende Francesca Romana Dell'Aglio (francescaromana.dellaglio@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Inhalt Course Description:

This course will look at everyday rituals as emphatic exceptions in urban life, responding to the urgent need to rethink the scale of the city and the direction of traditional historical analysis. We will begin from Georges Perec’s invitation to uncover the visible yet hidden spaces and gestures around us; to unveil the forgotten and the obvious, the mundane and the banal, by embracing the ‘endotic’ as a powerful lens through which we can learn to read, observe, and challenge the status quo of our surroundings. By understanding rituals as spatial practices that are integral to the fabric of everyday life, we will survey the form of the city of Basel as an anthropological expression, as something messy that can exist in the informal pockets of daily life. The aim is to open up new and unexplored perspectives that connect the urban fabric to its daily rituals.

Structure:

The course consists of a series of lectures, seminars, and practical exercises. The lectures will equip students with the theoretical and practical tools necessary for urban observation, as well as an overview of ritual theories and their applications in urban and architectural studies. The seminars provide an opportunity for students to engage closely with a variety of urban observation techniques, including the analysis of films, photographs, drawings, and written texts. These will serve as points of reference for the practical exercises, during which students will learn to identify the various forms of daily ritual activity that occur in urban environments, ranging from more intimate practices to collective actions.

The exercises are of two kinds. The first begins with the banal and familiar components that frame the mundane reality of our normal, day-to-day existence: commuting to work, grocery shopping, house cleaning, etc. The second exercise will identify a local ritual performed by a subject of your choice in and around the city. This may include activities such as maintenance, cleaning, playing, policing, protesting, commuting, building, and so forth. The objective is to gain insight into how other members of society utilise and rethink the urban space around them in ways different from our own.

The methods of observation and documentation adopted in each exercise are open and will be discussed together, but if the first exercise brings our own privacy to the centre of analysis, the second kind of exercises will help us understand what it means to observe and interact with a community outside of our own. Both exercises provide an opportunity to create new layers of micro-urbanism and micro-history through our recordings and observations; together these layers may ultimately contribute to reveal a different image of the city of Basel.

Lernziele Learning outcomes:

• The course aims to develop a methodology that starts from a highly embodied experience of the city, in order to deeply root everyday practices in a concrete and immediate relationship with the urban environment.
• The course provides an opportunity to develop and assess observational skills, enabling students to learn from and subsequently apply these skills to subsequent work.
• The course additionally aims to engender an acknowledgement of the highly complex, fragmented nature of the subjects who actively occupy and reinvent the spaces they inhabit through modes of urban appropriation that resist the city and its politics.

Literatur Selected Bibliography:

Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009
Bradley, Richard. “A Life Less Ordinary: The Ritualization of the Domestic Sphere in Later Prehistoric Europe”. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 13(1), 2003: 5-23
Buber, Martin. [1923] I and Thou. New York: Simon and Schuster 1970
Comaroff, Jean, Comaroff, John L. Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1993
de Certeau, Michel. The practice of everyday life. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles (CA), London 1984
Gehl, Jan. Life between buildings. Using Public Space. Washington: Island Press 2011
Han, Byung-Chul. The disappearance of rituals: a topology of the present. Cambridge: Polity Press 2020
hooks, bell. Belonging. A culture of place. New York-London: Routledge 2009
Ingold, Tim. Life of Lines. London: Routledge 2015
Jacobs, Jane. [1961] The Death and Life of the Great American City. London-New York: Penguin Random House 1992
Jormakka, Kari. Heimlich Manœuvres. Ritual in Architectural Form. Weimar: Verso 1995
Leighton-Chase John., Crawford Margareth, Kalinski John. , Everyday Urbanism. New York: The Monacelli Press 2008
Lynch, Kevin. Good city form. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press 1984
Perec, Georges. An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris. Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press 2010
Simmel, Georg. [1908] “The Stranger”. Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1971: pp.143-50
Teyssot, Georges. A topology of everyday constellations. Cambridge (MA)-London: The MIT Press 2013 Till, Jeremy. Architecture Depends. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press 2009
Turner, Victor. From Ritual to Theatre: the human seriousness of play. New York City: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1982.
Venturi, Robert, Scott-Brown, Denise, Izenour, Steve. [1972] Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press 2017
Ward, Colin. The Child in the City. London: Bedford Press 1978
Wigglesworth, Sarah, Till Jeremy. The Everyday and Architecture. Architectural Design 134. 1998
Bemerkungen This course is open to Master students from other programs with a priority for Critical Urbanisms and Changing Societies Master Students. Max. capacity 35

 

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen Anmelden: Belegen ; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung Anmelden: Belegen ; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Einsatz digitaler Medien kein spezifischer Einsatz

 

Intervall Wochentag Zeit Raum
wöchentlich Donnerstag 10.15-12.00 Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014

Einzeltermine

Datum Zeit Raum
Donnerstag 26.09.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101
Donnerstag 03.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101
Donnerstag 10.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101
Donnerstag 17.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 24.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 31.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 07.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 14.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 21.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 28.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 05.12.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 12.12.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Donnerstag 19.12.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Petersplatz 14/ Hebelstrasse 3, Kleiner Hörsaal E014
Module Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms)
Modul: Ways of Knowing the City (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms)
Prüfung Lehrveranst.-begleitend
Hinweise zur Prüfung Pass/ Fail
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

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