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USC MASTER PROGRAMME URBANISM & SOCIETAL CHANGE 20/21
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Urbanism & Societal Change The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation 2020 / 21
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Urbanism & Societal Change is based upon the following ambitions: 1. to embed the architectural & urban project within the dynamic conditions of contemporary society 2. to couple research and design within the project process 3. to train future architects as leading actors in the material production of society.
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Profound societal transformations, ranging from political and economic to demographic shifts, and altered resource availability to climatic change indicate that we can no longer expect the future conditions of the discipline to be an extrapolation of the past. These emerging conditions challenge conventional understandings of urban spatial organization and the role of the architect and planner. In this context, the capacity of architects to identify, understand and respond to these new conditions affecting the discipline becomes increasingly crucial.
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Year Statement
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Programme Information
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Teachers & Collaborators
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Autumn Semester 2020 Climatic Urbanism in a Nordic Context
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Spring Semester 2021
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Reading List Texts & Lexicon
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Studio Culture
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Previous Semester Catalogue
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Climatic Urbanism in a Hostile Context
Thematics & Student Work
Donald Trump & Greta Thunberg, UN Climate Summit - 2019
Year Statement 2020/21 Approaching Climatic & Ecological Crisis “I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” (Thunberg, G. 2019)
”[There is a] 93 per cent chance that temperatures will exceed 4 degrees Celsius of warming with 'business at usual’.” (Brown, P. and K. Caldeira 2017)
”At 4 degrees Celsius of global warming, for example, the losses in income to the global economy are over US$23 trillion per year, or the equivalent in economic damage of three or four 2008 Global Financial Crises each year.” (Kompas, T. et al. 2018)
”[…] to consider in any serious way the scale of the [climatic] crisis we face – is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism. To fail to be alarmed is to fail to think about the problem, and to fail to think about the problem is to relinquish all hope of its solution.” (O’Connell, M. 2019)
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This academic year, the masters program Urbanism & Societal Change will explore spatial responses to the current climatic and ecological crisis in the context of the anthropocene. While the anthropocene has been largely framed as a temporal condition, this semester will engage the position of theorists arguing that it can also be conceived of as a spatial condition. In the autumn semester we will explore responses to the Nordic context, in Copenhagen and Denmark, where climate and environmental responses, firstly at a municipal level, and more recently at a national level, have seen ambitious climate targets set, but a range of structural conditions hindering the meeting of those goals. In the spring, the studio will shift its focus to Budapest, and Hungary, to address a contrasting case of a 14
climate-action-hostile environment – one characterized by nationalism, popularism and climate denialism – to explore what alternate tactics and strategies of spatial climate action could be possible in such a setting. Following Naomi Klein’s proposition that the climatic and ecological crisis 'changes everything’, the studio will experiment with methods of analyzing and visualizing to unfold spatial aspects of how the built environment impacts climate change/ecology and vice versa. This work will expand to include the exploration of architecture, urban design and urban planning’s range of possible roles in producing future scenarios for climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and biodiversity/ ecology regeneration.
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Climate Protests Copenhagen - 2020
Central to these efforts will be a continued hope and optimism in the potential for our disciplines and our perspectives to contribute positively, meaningfully and significantly to responding to the crisis.
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In the local Danish context, there has been increasing political agency addressing climatic and environmental action, including ambitious targets applied nationally toward 2030 (70% CO2 reduction from 1990 levels) and 2050 (100% CO2 reduction from 1990 levels.) The methodological and disciplinary framework which these targets are being addressed by The Danish Council on Climate Change (Klimarådet) is typical of approaches in other contexts – characterized by a tendency toward sectorallyfragmented, humancentric, quantitative and abstract thinking. Integral to this approach is the expectation for future responses to the crisis taking the form of technological solutions or behavioral change; along with otherwise “unknown solutions.” While
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These current approaches emphasize a cultural deficit of alternate progressive images of the future. These have become increasingly limited in the last decades – tending toward a largely denialistic continuation of an (only marginally ‘greener’) neo-liberal status quo on the one hand – and an alarmist apocalyptic framing of total planetary catastrophe and mass extinction on the other. While the former has been largely predicated on ambitions of technologically-driven ‘green growth’, including notions such as ‘hedonistic sustainability’, the latter has been linked to calls for degrowth, etc. More recently, however, particularly in the context of a pandemic-triggered pause in forms of production, consumption and environmental degradation, along with a parallel global economic 20
recession, and renewed receptivity toward a neo-Keynsian public sector – there has been increasing momentum behind the Global Green New Deal (GGND). In its earlier version, introduced by the UNEP in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, called on governments “to allocate a significant share of stimulus funding to green sectors and sets out three objectives: (i) economic recovery; (ii) poverty eradication; and (iii) reduced carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation; and proposed a framework for green stimulus programs as well as supportive domestic and international policies.� While this general approach is increasingly embraced in this current moment, as a direction forward, 21
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the concrete spatial and material characteristics of this future are still unclear. We believe that the capacities of our disciplines to synthesise complexity, to imagine and shape possible futures has an important role to play in suggesting ways forward.
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This work will be challenging. The current climatic and ecological crisis in the context of the anthropocene confronts a series of orthodoxies, and assumptions concerning the built environment, and raises a series of questions and challenges.
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Alarmism vs Realism Resignation vs Hope As O’Donnell suggests, the current crisis points to a necessary collapse in the distinction between alarmism and realism. How will we overcome the tendency toward mental fatigue, negativity and potential resignation associated with the devastating implications, scale and complexity of the crisis? How will we instead engage tools and methods to offer a meaningful format of engagement, and ultimately, hope for the future?
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Human vs Nature City vs Countryside The anthropocene fundamentally reframes concepts of nature, and human-nature relations. In that context, what forms of relations between humans, between species, and between human and non-human actors might be productive? In similar terms, the intensified condition of planetary urbanism reframes a more complex relation between what we formerly understood as the city, and the countryside. How might this emerging awareness guide architecture and planning?
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Local vs Global State vs Market vs Civil Society While growing global urgency and cooperation is emerging in reaction to the climatic and ecological crisis - the relations between the global and the local are being problematized as a result of significant tendencies toward nationalism, popularism and exceptionalism – as well as climate denialism – in certain territories. This produces growing challenges for supranational bodies and international treaties and accords – the US withdrawal from the Paris Accord and Hungary’s recent veto of block-wide EU climate goals are just two examples of this. How can local climate action addressing a global challenge have meaning in the context a deficit of global solidarity and responsibility? 27
The nature of the current crises is further underlining the inability of the market to solve these problems. How might this point to further renewed roles for both the state and civil society?
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Climate Crisis vs Ecological Crisis vs Health Crisis vs Economic Crisis vs Inequality Crisis The collision of several crises has provided a complex context of competing concerns and narratives. In some cases one crisis has been played off against another. How might aspects of responses to a certain crisis contribute toward addressing aspects of another? And when might the conception of ‘crisis’ become more or less productive in achieving systemic change?
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USC Studio, Bejing Semester - 2019
Programme Information Profound societal transformations, ranging from shifts in economic and demographic conditions, to altered resource availability, to the massive spatial implications of climatic change indicate that we can no longer expect the future conditions of the discipline to be an extrapolation of the past. These emerging conditions challenge conventional understandings of spatial organization and the role of the architect and planner. In this context, the capacity of architects to identify and understand these evolving conditions affecting the discipline, and to provide new visions for our collective future, becomes increasingly crucial. As a result, much of the program involves research-based teaching in 31
Studio Models, 2019
which the student is herself/himself generating proposals and knowledge related to specific thematics, conditions, contexts, and programs that represent key societal changes and challenges. In addition to foundational knowledge in architectural and urban theory, history, representational techniques, design methods, form-making, strategic-development, systemic thinking, etc.; students at USC can expect to learn research methods, and rhetorical formats, and spatial visions formulation as a basis to contribute novel spatial responses to the evolving conditions of our time.
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A key characteristic of the program is that each semester’s project work is framed less according to conventional scalar categories, and more based on thematic approaches to critical societal changes. The themes offer a range of entry points to design and planning proposals that might range in scale from that of the building, to that of urban space or the territory. Past thematics have included: the urban implications of population aging; climate change focusing on spatial adaptation to predicted sealevel rise; vulnerable housing areas and associated challenges of sociospatial segregation. The structure of the two-year, foursemester program can be unfolded as follows: Semester one is focused on developing broad knowledge and competencies in the methods and
approaches that the program employs. Project work is based in a Copenhagen context, exploiting local knowledge and a local network of collaborators including local academics, practitioners, and the Municipality of Copenhagen. First and second year students work together in this semester, typically working in groups of two or three students. The second semester focuses on a foreign context undergoing dynamic transformation, to which the studio conducts an in-depth study tour. These settings are intended both as unknown environments to challenge the students, and to allow them to reflect on conditions in their own ‘home’ contexts. Previous second semester sites have included Riga/ Tallinn, and Beijing – and have involved exchanges and on-site exhibitions. In this semester, first year students work 35
separately from second year students. (It is also possible for students to take an internship during this semester.) The focus of semester three returns to the local Copenhagen context with the studio mixed between first and third semester students. Third semester students are encouraged to work on projects individually. The program for third semester students is a split semester between the studio project set in the Copenhagen context, and an independent research project. The research project addresses a societal change and a specific context of the student’s choice and forms the basis for the student’s thesis/ diploma program. After the first three semesters of the program, students will have had experience working across scales and modes of production: from 36
architectural design interventions, to urban space or neighbourhood designs, to local plan documents, and spatial strategic plans. The fourth and final semester is dedicated to developing the thesis/ diploma project on a societal change, context and program of the student’s selection. Students are expected to deliver a mature, thoroughly iterated and provocative research, program and spatial proposition at the end of their studies. USC is an important part of the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism & Landscape. The programs at the Institute share a geographical frame in the fall-semester, and also a common meta-theme throughout the study-year. Through these 37
IBBL's Katrine Lotz introduces 'Atlas of The Copenhagens' launch - 2018
commitments, students are able to exploit and investigate different sets of professional positions, methods and knowledge-bases at IBBL, and the types of problematics that they entail. The institute aims at training graduates who can take on leadership in all of the complex processes of urban development. Therefore, there is a focus on developing knowledge of what this implies, both at the bachelor level and on the candidate programs.
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USC Field Trip, Athens - 2019
Teachers & Collaborators Studio Tutors & Course Leaders
Deane Simpson (Wellington, 1971) is an architect, urbanist, professor and co-leader of Urbanism and Societal Change at KADK. Formerly professor at BAS, unit master at AA London, faculty member at ETH Zürich, and architect with Diller + Scofidio NY. He received his masters from Columbia University NY, and his Phd from ETH Zürich; and is author/editor of publications such as The Ciliary Function (2007), Young-Old (2015), The City Between Freedom and Security (2017), and Atlas of the Copenhagens (2018). Charles Bessard (Paris, 1970) architect, partner and co-founder Bessards’Studio and the Powerhouse Company. Charles Bessard has realized several awardwinning projects and won the Nycredit Motivation prize. He received his masters from the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, his postgraduate masters from the Berlage, Rotterdam, and is currently completing a Phd at KADK. Co-author of Shifts: Architecture after the 20th Century (2012), and Ouvertures (2011). Christine Bjerke (Aarhus, 1987) is an architect, co-founder of the urban think-tank In-Between Economies and editor of www.thefxbeauties.club. She studied at KADK, and at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she received her Diploma of Architecture with Distinction. In addition to teaching at USC, she runs her own company, and is a frequent writer on architecture and design.
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Morten Kjer Jeppesen (Copenhagen, 1981) architect, urban planner and founder of Arkitekt | Morten Kjer. He has studied at the ETH in Zürich and KADK in Copenhagen. His work is focused on urban regeneration strategies, and planning of our suburbs and postindustrial areas. He currently works at Tegnestuen Vandkunsten where he is in charge of several large scale urban planning projects across Scandinavia and Germany. Tamara Kalantajevska (Riga, 1988) is an architect, working on large scale master plans and visions at Gehl in Copenhagen. Tamara studied at KADK (Urbanism and Societal Change), Riga Technical University and HafenCity University (Urban Design). In addition to teaching at USC Tamara runs an architectural collective Dinner Group, focused on small scale artistic and architectural projects. Cameron Clarke (Scotland, 1989) is an architect who trained at the Sheffield School of Architecture (UK) and at KADK. His graduating thesis from USC was awarded the 2019 KADK UN scholarship, a nomination for the 2020 EU YTAA Mies van der Rohe Award and publication in Dezeen. He is currently an architect with Morris + Company in Copenhagen. He has previously worked for Sangberg Architcts in Copenhagen, O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects in London and Dublin on projects for the V&A Museum and Sadlers Wells Theatre, and Mikhail Riches Architects where he worked on their 2019 Stirling Prize winning social housing scheme. Simon Sjökvist (Malmö, 1981) is an architect working as project manager at Cobe Architects in the fields of urban planning, landscape and building architecture. He is currently in charge of the new Science Museum in Lund. Simon studied at KADK, and has worked for various
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European architectural practices. Simon also teaches urban planning at Lund University. Next to his work he is conducting a small research project on social housing. Jonna Majgaard Krarup is an architect with specialisation in landscape architecture, and associate professor at KADK. Jonna has a number of years of practice experience and is formerly head of the Institute of Urban Planning at KADK, head of the Centre of Urban Space Research at KADK, and a visiting associate professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture. She holds a Phd and candidate degree from the Aarhus School of Architecture. Jonna’s ongoing research addresses issues of landscape urbanism and climate change adaptation, with an interest in broader questions of urban ecology. She plays a central role in the Phd school at KADK, and leads the third semester 10 ECTS course for USC students. Joost Grootens is architect, graphic designer and founder of Studio Joost Grootens (SJG) – an Amsterdam-based design firm focusing on book design. SJG has received a number of awards including the Rotterdam Design Prize, the World’s Most Beautiful Book Gold Medal, etc. He received his masters in architecture from the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He is the author of I swear I use no art at all (2010). He is currently the head of the Information Design Masters at the Design Academy, Eindhoven, and is a regular workshop/course teacher and collaborator with USC.
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Teachers & Collaborators Programme Collaborators
Marco Steinberg
Nicolay Boyadjiev
Chrisopher Roth
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Landskab 100 ĂĽr, Jonas Sangberg & Cameron Clarke - 2019
Autumn Semester 2020 Climatic Urbanism in a Nordic Context
Responding to the largely fragmented, siloed and de-spatialised responses to the global climate crisis, this semester will explore possible comprehensive spatial responses to the climate crisis within the area of Copenhagen’s regional urban system. This site is suggested based on the interpretation that the spaces of the regional urban systems are those where the largest climatic gains might be made – compared to the urban cores where already ambitious plans and policies have been unfolded. Exploring a range of spatial registers of climate mitigation and climate adaptation, students will develop concrete spatial propositions between the scale of the regional plan, and that 47
Flash Flooding - Copenhagen - 2016
of the architectural typology. The work will be conducted in dialogue with relevant public and private sector actors. This semester, all the programs at IBBL work in relation to Copenhagen, as part of our strategic collaboration with the administration. This will give you access to knowledge of strategies and contemporary developments, and to embed your projects in relevant situations and to eventually work as a ‘think-tank’ in relation to the challenges of Copenhagen.
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USC Field Trip Copenhagen - 2018
Semester Courses Transformative Architecture & Urbanism: An introduction to histories and theories of the transformational city, and their contemporary dynamics at the intersection of architecture and urbanism; Poly-Optical Urbanism: Local study tour introducing complexity of architectural & urban production in relation to transformational city discourses through narration by contrasting actors and agendas; Additional Workshops: Communication and Visualization. 51
Spatial Planning 1: Introduction to the history, theory and contemporary challenges to urban and landscape planning. The course is a combination of readings in groups each afternoon preparing questions for the 3 lectures the following morning and the debate among students and lecturers mid-day. The course is introductory, laying the foundation for insight into and understanding of the history, most important theories and current challenges within urban planning and landscape architecture, including the specific contributions to the field from architecture through aesthetically based methods and through the production of futures. Lectures introduces to background and conditions for planning, amo the 52
formation of DK-landscape, history of garden art, the historic development of cities and contemporary challenges, aestical discourses in architectural planning as well as the role that produced futures hold in architecture and planning; utopias, visions, scenarios, plans etc. GIS Part 1: An introduction to research, analysis, and visualisation of urban conditions and dynamics through geographical information systems (GIS)
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Climate Protest - Budapest 2019
Spring Semester 2021
Climatic Urbanism in a Hostile Context
Responding to the largely fragmented, siloed and de-spatialised responses to the global climate crisis, this semester will explore possible spatial responses to the climate crisis within the context of Budapest, Hungary’s capital. This site is suggested based on its position as a politically hostile national context to climate action. Exploring a range of spatial registers of climate mitigation and climate adaptation, students will develop concrete spatial propositions between the scales of the urban plan, and that of the architectural typology. The work will be conducted in dialogue with relevant public and private sector actors. 55
Historic Flooding of the Danube - Budapest 2013
The general pedagogical approach is centred upon a feedback loop between research and design supported by a combination of courses and studios. Design assignments, are carried out at registers and scales spanning from the architectural intervention, and urban design, to the strategic urban plan. Emphasis will be placed on practices of engaging societal challenges through precisely framed research polemics and articulate and artistically developed designs. In addition to the main research-design studio component of the semester, supporting course elements involve a range of lectures, readings, discussions, assignments etc
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Energy, Powergrid, Atlas of The Copenhagens - 2019
Semester Courses Spatial Planning II: Case-based analysis of contemporary examples of urban and landscape planning and their prerequisites. The course is a combination of lectures, field research and group work focusing on gaining a deeper understanding of planning in practice through analysis of contemporary cases. Special attention is given to the complex interplay between different stakeholders, paving the way for a critical discussion of central questions of decision making and formal and actual power in urban and landscape planning. While focusing on real-life cases, the course looks at the different roles of the architect in the realm of urban, regional and national urban and 59
landscape planning, whether it is as an officer in municipal or national government, as consultant, adviser or critical researcher. To conclude the course, the students will present a case-based analysis of a contemporary example of urban &/or landscape planning in Denmark. GIS 2, Advanced: Advanced research, analysis, and visualisation of urban conditions and dynamics through geographical information systems (GIS)
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Reading List Texts & Lexicon Climate Change (Architecture/Urbanism) Key Texts: Graham, J. et. al. (eds.) (2016) Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, Columbia Books on Architecture Bratischenko, L. & Zardini, M. (eds.) (2016) It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment CCA Müller, L. et. al. (eds.) (2012) For Climate's Sake! A Visual Reader of Climate Change, Lars Müller Publishers Further reading: Orff, K. (2016) Toward an Urban Ecology Monacelli Press Ghosn, R, El Hadi, J. (2020) Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment, Actar Rahm, P. (2017) Form Follows Climate First Edition
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Rahm, P. (2014) Constructed Atmospheres Postmedia Books SMAQ, Müller, S., Quednau, A (2016) Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria: Urban Design by Narration Ruby Press AMO/Rem Koolhaas (2020) Countryside: A Report Taschen Simpson, D., Gimmel, K., Lonka, A., Jay, M., & Grootens, J. (2018) Atlas of the Copenhagens Ruby Press Wilson, E.W. (2017) Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life Liveright
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Climate Change (General) Key Texts: IPCC. (2019) Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty United Nations Environment Programme (2019) Emissions Gap Report 2019. UNEP http://www.unenvironment.org/resources/emissionsgap-report-2019 Klimarådet. (2020) Kendte veje og nye spor til 70 procents reduktion Retning og tiltag for de næste ti års klimaindsats i Danmark. https://www.klimaraadet.dk/da/nyheder/klimaraadetny-rapport-om-vejen-til-70-procentsmaalet-i-2030 City of Copenhagen, TMF, (2012) CPH 2025 Climate Plan: A Green, Smart and Carbon Neutral City Kompas, T & Ha, P. & Che, N. (2018). The Effects of Climate Change on GDP by Country and the Global Economic Gains From Complying With the Paris Climate Accord. Earth's Future. 10.1029/2018EF000922.
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Latour, B. (2018) Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime Polity Latour, B. (2017) Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime Polity Wallace-Wells, D, (2018) The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future Penguin Klein, N. (2014) This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Simon & Schuster Chomsky, N. et al (2020) Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet Verso [Forthcoming] Further reading: Guggenheim, D., Gore, A. et al (2006) An Inconvenient Truth [film] Lawrence Bender Productions / Paramount Classics Chakrabarty, D. (2009) The Climate of History: Four Theses. Critical Inquiry, 35(2), 197-222
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Biodiversity / Multispecies Perspectives Key Texts: Kolbert, E. (2014) The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Picador IPBES. (2019) Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services https://ipbes.net/global-assessment Haraway, D. (2016) Staying with the Trouble (Experimental Futures) Duke University Press Petersen, A. H., Strange, N., Anthon, S., Bjørner, T. B., & Rahbek, C. (2016). Conserving what, where and how? Cost-efficient measures to conserve biodiversity in Denmark. Journal for Nature Conservation, 29, 33–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2015.10.004 Strange, N., Rahbek, C., Jepsen, J. K., & Lund, M. P. (2006) Using farmland prices to evaluate cost-efficiency of national versus regional reserve selection in Denmark. Biological Conservation, 128(4), 455–466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2005.10.009
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Anthropocene Theory Key Texts: Tsing, A. L., Bubandt, N., Gan, E., & Swanson, H. A. (Eds.). (2017). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (3rd ed. edition) Univ Of Minnesota Press. Tsing, A. L. (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Edition Unstated edition). Princeton University Press. Latour, B. (2020) Critical Zones MIT Press Latour, B. (2019) Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime MIT Press Lewis, S. (2018) The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene Pelican Books Bubandt, N., & Tsing, A. (2018) An Ethnoecology for the Anthropocene: How A Former Brown-Coal Mine in Denmark Shows Us the Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin. Journal of Ethnobiology, 38(1), Online supplement, page 1-13
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Bubandt, N., Mathews, A., & Tsing, A. (2019) Patchy Anthropocene. The Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications. Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 20 Bubandt, N., Andersen, A. O., & Cypher, R. A. (Eds.). (2021). Multispecies Methods for the Anthropocene. Curiosity, Collaboration and Critical Observation in Multispecies Fieldwork. Minnesota University Press Moore, J. W. (2016) Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Oakland: PM Press. Tsing, A., & Bubandt, N. (2018) Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin. Special Section. Journal of Ethnobiology, 38(1), 1-104. Wark, M. (2016) Molecular Red. Theory for the Anthropocene. London: Verso. Arènes, A., Latour, B., & Gaillardet, J. (2018) Giving depth to the surface: An exercise in the Gaiagraphy of critical zones. The Anthropocene Review, 5(2), 120–135. https://doi. org/10.1177/2053019618782257
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Mapping Theory Key Texts: Paez. R. (2019) Operative Mapping: Maps as Design Tools Actar Kurgan, L. & Brawley, D. (Eds.) (2019) Ways of Knowing Cities. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Yaneva, A. (2012) Mapping Controversies in Architecture Routledge Kitchin, R., Gleeson, J. and Dodge, M. (2012) ‘Unfolding Mapping Practices: A New Epistemology for Cartography’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38: 480-496 Abrahams, J.; Hall, P., P. (2006). Else/where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. University of Minnesota Design Institute
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Further Reading: Kurgan, L. (2013) Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, Politics, Zone Books Crampton J W (2003). The political mapping of cyberspace Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh Grootens, J. (2013) I Swear I Use No Art At All 10 Years, 100 Books, 18,788 Pages of Book Design. NAI010 Publishers. Philipsen, L., & KjĂŚrgaard, R. S. (Eds.). (2018) The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures. New York: Routledge.
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Mapping Precedents Key Texts: Abercrombie, P. (1944). Greater London Plan 1944. University of London Press Weizman, E. (2017) Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability Zone Books Tsing, A., Deeger, J., Keleman, A., & Zhou, F. (2020) Feral Atlas. The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Stanford: Stanford University Press Deutinger, T. (2019) Ultimate Atlas: Logbook of Spaceship Earth Lars MĂźller Publishers van Susteren, A. (2005) Metropolitan World Atlas, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers Simpson, D. (2015) Young Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society. Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers Simpson, D., Jensen, V., & Rubing, A. (Eds.) (2017) The City Between Freedom and Security: Contested Public Space in the 21st Century. Basel: Birkhauser
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Scenario Theory Popper, R. (2008) “Foresight Methodology� [In:] The Handbook of Technology Foresight. Concepts and Practice, edited by L. Georghiou, J.C. Harper, M. Keenan, I. Miles, R. Popper, PRIME Series on Research and Innovation Policy, 44-88 Andersen, P. D., & Rasmussen, B. (2012). Fremsyn: Metoder, praksis og erfaringer. Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation. Scenario Precedents
Salewski, C. (2012). Dutch New Worlds: Scenarios in Physical Planning and Design in the Netherlands, 1970-2000. 010 Publishers. AMO (2010). Roadmap 2050. http://www.roadmap2050.eu/project/roadmap-2050 SMAQ (2012) Charter of Dubai - A Manifesto of Critical Urban Transformation Jovis Buck, H. J. (2019) After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
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Model making at the desk - 2019
Studio Culture The studio space (physical and virtual) of the program is the core educational environment in which an intensive culture of collective learning is fostered. Students of the program are expected to work in the space, with regular structured studio teaching days, along with lecture/ workshop/reading seminar inputs on specific days.
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USC Studio after mid-term critique - 2019
Studio Culture Physical & Virtual
Virtual Resilience, adapting to the Covid-19 Pandemic - 2020
Beijing 2019
Riga 2016 Helsinki 2019 Athens 2019 Denmark 2020
New York 2017
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Studio Culture Study Trips
Athens Town Hall Debate- Greece 2019
Visit to the Akropolis- Greece 2019
Lecture with local expert - Greece 2019
Ferry Ride - Helsinki 2019
Group tour - Helsinki 2019
USC Exhibition Preparation at Beijing Design Week - China 2018
USC Exhibition Opening at Beijing Design Week - China 2018
Students presenting at SPACE:10 - Copenhagen 2019
Studio Culture Events & Engagement
USC Student organised Zoom lecture from Turner Prize Winners ASSEMBLE - Copenhagen / London -2020
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Studio Culture Sharing & Celebrating
Danish Design Awards Finalists UCS Graduates Jana Possehn & Meggan Collins - 2020
YTAA Mies van der Rohe award nominee UCS Graduate Cameron Clarke - 2020
End of Semester Gathering in the sunshine - 2019
Studio Culture Sharing & Celebrating
Thesis Exhibition Preparation - 2019
West Coast Futures - Mikkel Larsen & Ninna KjĂŚr Ravn - USC 2020
Previous Semesters Diploma 2020
Fifth Mode of Transportation - Anton Ling - USC 2020
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West Coast Futures - Mikkel Larsen & Ninna KjĂŚr Ravn - USC 2020
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Magic of the real - Lauge Floris - USC 2020
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People of the CTA - Alejandra Edery - USC 2020
Rare Standards - Eva Pavlic - USC 2020
Rare Standards - Eva Pavlic - USC 2020
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Tokyo Suburbia, Again - Serina Kitazono - USC 2020
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Hong Kong Frangment - Desmond Choi - USC 2020
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Hong Kong Frangment - Desmond Choi - USC 2020
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Outdoor Intimate Harbour - Linda Tran - USC 2020
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Previous Semesters
Candidate 2020 - Horizontal Urban Futures
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Collective Producation Ryomgaard Axo - Elise Schultz & Daniel Kragskov
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Energyscape - Gabriella Arrland
Post Preserved Landscapes - Anna Wahlen & Inga Skjulhaug
Make Shopping Great Again - Anders Vikse & Daiki Chiba
Where Water Settles - Cassandra Hammerstad & Julie Marie Madsen
The State of Common Diversities - Cecilie H. Nielsen & Sara Emilsson
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Previous Semesters Subunbia - CAFx Takeover
Subunbia Press Release - e-flux Architecture 2020
Subunbia UCS Student films- CAFx 'Polite Hack' 2020
Subunbia UCS Student films- CAFx 'Polite Hack' 2020
Valby Fallow, Linnea Freij & Simen Sorthe
Previous Semesters
Candidate 2019 Previsioning Post-Crisis Urbanisms
Valby Fallow, Linnea Freij & Simen Sorthe
Ly & Favn - Daniel Kragskov
The Community Hub, Anna Jo Banke & Gabriella Arrland
The Community Hub, Anna Jo Banke & Gabriella Arrland
Theres Always A Lawn Mower In Suburbia, Cassandra Hammerstad & Sara Emilsson
Theres Always A Lawn Mower In Suburbia, Cassandra Hammerstad & Sara Emilsson
Valby Co-social, Anna Wahlen & Elise Schultz
Producing City, Daiki Chiba & Season Ho
Tourism Suburbia, Serina Kitazono & Kristin Laz
Previous Semesters Candidate & Diploma
Choreography of Logistics, Jana Possehn & Meggan Collins Diploma 2019
No Home is an Island, Archie Cantwell, Diploma 2019
Close to Home, Cameron Clarke, Diploma 2019
Municiple Retail Supplement , Archie Cantwell & Tamara Kalantajevska
Municiple Retail Supplement , Archie Cantwell & Tamara Kalantajevska
Nextminster, Alice Haugh - 2017
Nextminster, Alice Haugh - 2017
Between the Lines, Fran Ă lvarez, Diploma 2018
Between the Lines, Fran Ă lvarez, Diploma 2018
The Right to Dwell - Marcus Vesterager - 2017
Tamara Kalantajevska - Diploma 2018
Study Model Workshop - USC 2017
Urban Ex-change, Copenhagen and Beijing in Parallax, USC 2018
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