Objective is to enable the students to identify the problems and potentials of concrete situations to derive pioneering planning issues and to answer these questions by means of contemporary urbanism. Urban development shall learn the basis of current tasks as a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach. Design challenge including its social, economic, environmental and procedural implications. Adequate analysis, planning and presentation methods are an essential tools.
An essential course content is the confrontation with situations in urban areas, urban peripheries or in rural areas. The design includes a critical analysis of the stock, the discussion of general urban planning guidelines, the design of site-specific development strategies, the development of urban designs, as well as their visualization and presentation. The planning debate of the scales of regional and urban planning on the issues of typologies extends to the urban design detail.
Important: This course in English is only reserved for students who participate in the workshops in China and Korea
Date:
Workshop in Korea: First week in August in Busan, South Korea
Workshop in China: Last two weeks in September in Nanjing, PR China
The last two weeks in September in Nanjing, PR China
Application only with portfolio.
Further details and technical documents follow over the course of the summer term.
Lecturers:
Semsroth, Klaus; Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Dr.h.c.
Jadric, Mladen; Ass.Prof. Arch. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. with
Guest Professors from Partner universities in Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Sydney
Urban Analects - Essays about Chinese Urban TransitionEdited by Klaus Semsroth & Mladen Jadric
Urban Analects
(The Analects (Lun-y) is a collection of moral and ethical principles enunciated by the Chinese thinker Confucius in conversations with his disciples. These principles set standards for individual conduct and the administration of government and community. After Confucius died in 479 BC, his followers compiled his teachings in the form of dialogues between him and his students. The resulting collection highly influenced educational, social, and cultural thought in China and elsewhere.)
Wikipedia, The Analects, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analects (25.09.12)
Urban Analects is a book of essays published to honor the 10th anniversary our Austrian-Chinese university cooperation. During these 10 years we have experienced an extremely eventful period of history, and have witnessed some developments that irreversibly changed the image of our contemporary world. We all may consider ourselves fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to witness the rise of China into an economic and cultural world power, as well as Europe‘s transformation into a unified economic and cultural space. Working with our students on various urban and architectural projects, we have contributed to these processes at least to some degree.
Looking back at these past years, we can say without false modesty that we have left our mark on a great number of young people, particularly students, enabling them to understand and learn from our respective cultures much more than this had been the case before. Also, this cooperation has only strengthened us in our belief that education is the cornerstone of any modern society. We hope that at the end of the book the reader will share our view. In the words of great teacher and philosopher Confucius: If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
