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| ARLL0531-1 | Urban planning and landscape
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| Duration : | 10h Th, 74h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Abdelkader Boutemadja, Marc Goossens, Rita Occhiuto |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | This course, as a continuation of the cultural vision and the interpretative subject of the urban project in the previous year, finalises this initial approach to a discipline which can lead to several training post-graduate training possibilities.
More specifically, it offers the opportunity to address problems concerning vast regions.
Students are faced with themes relating to landscape, the environment, and the re-use of disadvantaged sites in demand for development.
These themes constitute not only subjects of professional interest for the coming years, but are particularly adapted to the current needs of the Walloon region. Through this course, complementary approaches to town planning and the region will have the chance to develop. The "sustainable" aspect of the project, which is implicit in any town planning project, becomes a key philosophy due to the fact that it confronts students with exercises which demand solutions responding to the needs of the region.
The course prepares students for critical reading and establishment of innovative communication tools, providing a stock-take which could reverse conventional cultural views: shooting a film evoking the qualities and atmosphere uncovered by a town planner's observations.
The course prepares students to widen their visual field, leading to the design of complex projects which attempt to make unified and undivided readings of the region. |
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| Course objective : | This course gives students the chance to understand that a project is not simply the result of a gesture or a formal choice, but also involves the ability to establish dialogue, to get closer to the realities on the ground, to integrate the concept of time into one's work, to face up to constraints, to negotiate, to make citizen's choices, to face up to different cultures, and to open up the job of an architect to more collective and participative dimensions.
Students should: acquire the tools for better understanding the context of projects; learn how to move between scales; learn how to build analysis which can feed the imagination of a project; learn to express and communicate project options through generic diagrams, considering intentions before translating them into formal solutions; learn to re-question the request and the project; develop new project strategies. |
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| Prerequisites : | Knowledge of the history of town planning and an initial project experience. |
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| Organization : | The main format of the course is individual or group corrections and discussion, in the workshop. Meetings and discussions with different stakeholders and partners interested in the evolution of the study territory provide the opportunity to make the subject interactive, and will allow students to publicly present their project and test the procedure of "back and forth" (plan - criticism - reformulation) which, in the case of regional projects, are required.
Visits and the development of other means of communication are planned to try to make this discipline dynamic and to infuse it with the close nature of sites and habitats, while taking into account contemporary socio-economic needs. |
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| Written notes : | Course notes and a bibliography on urban project methods and graphic communication of an urban project. |
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| Assessment : | The assessment will cover the development of a project and its presentation to a jury. The criteria for evaluation will cover the clarity of the project, the ability to develop an outline and the coherence of the project proposition as well as the ability to make an oral presentation and supporting arguments. |
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