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| Semester | fall semester 2017 |
| Course frequency | Every 2nd fall sem. |
| Lecturers | Kenny R. Cupers (kenny.cupers@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course explores the making of cities, landscapes, and territories in the context of global history since the early modern period. By approaching urbanization as both a material process and an intellectual project, the course critically unpacks the stakes of design and everyday life beyond the binaries of North versus South and urban versus rural. Its goal is to equip students with frameworks and skills for analyzing the role of architecture and design in reshaping humanity and our planet across different scales. While design can encompass any collective and individual intention to shape the physical world, we pay particular attention to the disciplinary development of architecture and the urban professions. From the first global urban networks to the International Congresses of Modern Architecture and from Baroque urbanism to contemporary design responses to climate change, we analyze a broad range of sites, forms, techniques, discourses, and projects. These analyses are enriched by theoretical engagement with concepts such as modernity, capitalism, colonialism, and globalization. Beyond architectural types and urban forms as such, we will examine the infrastructures and territories in which they are embedded. In doing so, this course encourages students to fundamentally question what is at stake in the shape of our physical world. |
| Learning objectives | Course Format and Learning Outcomes Develop an understanding of historical processes of urbanization and the production of the built environment. Active use of fundamental concepts in architecture and urbanism such as form, type, function, and program. Foundational skills in urban history, to comprehend the multifarious conditions in which cities and landscapes are produced, represented, and experienced. |
| Admission requirements | None |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul Culture and Society (Master's degree program: African Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul Fields: Environment and Development (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Module: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Pass/Fail |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Urban Studies |