After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the principles, formalized instruments and recent approaches of urban development, the history of planning cultures and the development of social changes in time in the context of the Central to South East European urbanized areas. The aim of the Module is to deepen professional and methodical competences. Students acquire knowledge in the field of urbanism, and in the culture of planning in the context of the middle and south-eastern regions of Europe. They learn about the development of cities and metropolitan regions; historical and contemporary approaches in urban design and planning as well as the instruments of design, planning and regulation. The module comprises introduction into scientific research, working with scientific and non-scientific literature, and design research work.

The area of Central to South-East-Europe is characterized by strong similarities in its processes of current urbanization, by a partly shared history in planning culture, yet also by differences on how urban issues are tackled today. The Module provides knowledge in the contemporary processes of urbanization in this region and prepares designers and urbanists with skills to react to the ever-changing challenges of the built environment.

The module trains the capability to read and understand urban structures, reflection of the processes that drive processes of urbanization and urban reconfiguration by means of a body of critical techniques; interpretation of material, identification of the suitable points of intervention; field recording, mapping and cartography and working with a body of references of general principles for spatial planning. The module consists of core subjects which are complemented by content changing according to the focus of the semesters’ design studio which parallels the Module. Core topics encompass urban infrastructures; urban space, territorial change; housing, cities and politics.

VU 3 ECTS Instruments for Urban Development in Central and South-East-Europe
SE 3 ECTS Seeing Space
VO 2 ECTS Lecture Series
VU 2 ECTS Space and society in time: Planning Culture in Transition

Program

TUE, 4.10., 14h
Konferenzraum der Fakultät
Kick-off, Lecture 1 

WED, 12.10. - THU, 13.10., 9-18h 
AE U1-2
Workshop 1
Benni Eder

WED, 19.10., 10h - 15h
online (Excursion Pristina) 
Lectures 2-4

WED, 9.11. - THU, 10.11., 9-18h
AE U1-2
Workshop 2
Benni Eder

WED, 16.11., 10-15h 
PR 13
Lectures 5-7

WED, 23.11., 10-15h
PR 13
Lectures 8-10

WED, 30.11. - THU, 1.2., 9-18h 
AE U1-1 
Workshop 3
Benni Eder

WED, 14.12., 9-13h
PR 13 
Term paper discussion
Manuel Singer

WED, 11.1., 9-13h
PR 13
Term paper discussion
Manuel Singer

WED, 25.1., 9-18h
PR 13
Final presentation

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The module is also open to spatial planning students and can be used as an elective module.

Registration:
By mail until 29.09.2022
to nela.kadic@tuwien.ac.at

Related to the teaching format (lecture series/seminar etc.), different teaching and learning methods are applied in the module: history and theory-based knowledge is taught in lectures (in English, material provided by e-learning: preparation of research and term paper), seminars involve also document analysis, case studies, and other empirical research methodologies, as well as own research designs. Evaluation methods involve a written theisis as well as applied practical work in written and drawn work, both in groups and individually, which, beyond mere reproduction of learned knowledge particularly focus on the students’ skills for argumentation.