AA Visiting
School Terrain Lab
end summer international workshop
in collaboration with Architectural Association London
7 > 12 September 2023
Venice
programme head:
Elena Longhin
international relations promoter at Iuav:
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registration
deadline: 20 August 2023
programme
Terrain Lab #Trajectory 03 international workshop in collaboration with
Architectural Association London will explore the transitional landscapes of
the Mediterranean Sea from the advantageous location of the island of the
Aegadian Archipelago, Sicily, Italy. Starting from the unique human-sea-shaped
landscape of the island of Favignana, the VS will provide a space for
co-learning, interdisciplinary collaborations, and comparative studies to
generate cross-cultural conversations around the maritime space of the Med as a
space of transition where economic, political, racial, and ecological dynamics
intertwine. After a few days, the VS International Workshop will travel to the
islands of Venice, where, from the Venetian lagoon - a delicate land-water
balance ecosystem since its inception-, we will bring together environmental
humanities scholars, historians, scientists, geologists, artists, architects,
designers, curators and writers, to discuss around strategies of care for water
ecologies. With the aim to foster an improved understanding of collective
agency operating at the intersection of anthroposphere, biosphere, and
geosphere, the VS seeks a pedagogy that understands design as a means to
research, disclose, represent and question the various processes involving
territories in the transition. The VS International Workshop will make use of a
working methodology that bridges architectural studies, landscape urbanism
approach with urban political ecology, and environmental and cultural studies,
developing through the contribution of renewed lectures, experts and
researchers on the topics of environmental preservation, mass tourism, heritage
and climate change. The course will be held at the Università Iuav di Venezia.
prominent
features of the workshop/ skills developed
> Learn a methodology which has the capacity to bridge architectural
studies, landscape urbanism approach with urban political ecology, and
environmental and cultural studies.
> Develop the theoretical, methodological and representational means
to address the social, ecological and geopolitical complexities that
characterize the current condition of planetary urbanization.
> Engage with the concepts of operational landscapes and the notion
of the Capitalocene.
> Learn to combine geospatial knowledge and tools with design
methodologies and representational means.
> Learn how to use GIS software, source data collection and develop
cartographic representations to describe systems and patterns organizing the
territory.
> Understanding urbanization as a no-fixed-scale phenomenon whose
entanglements with nature exceed the boundaries of inhabited spaces and cities.
> Participate in the long-term construction of a dedicated exhibition
and publication. This is an important opportunity for Iuav University students
who are interested in participating to an Architectural Association Event in
Italy. While the week in Venice the Workshop will be held at Iuav only on 7-8
September and 11-12 September and the 4 ECTS (typology D) credits will be given
for this Venetian part in presence.
target students
Aimed at students of the following courses of study:
– corso di laurea magistrale in Architettura
– MA Architecture
– corso di laurea magistrale in Urbanistica e Pianificazione del territorio
– MS in Urban Planning for Transition
university credits
4 cfu type D.