Duration
Number of credits
| Master in urban planning and territorial development (120 ECTS) | 7 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The "Terrtorial Deisgn Studio" is a teaching unit which, through the urban planning project, engages students in the reading, understanding, application and criticism of urban planning tools. The project is the place for criticism, in that it allows students to manipulate, test and propose projects for cities and spaces for living together in society.
The project therefore involves the application of most of the urban planning tools of the Brussels Region and/or the Walloon Region. One of the overarching aims of the workshop is to question the relevance, appropriateness or interest of these tools, through a site and a question posed.
Students are asked to develop an operational, critical and creative response to the qualitative transformation of urban or superurban fabrics. Implementing urban strategies therefore requires a territorial vision that cuts across scales, from local to metropolitan.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The territorial design studio has three objectives:
- Collective learning of the programming approach applied to a given area (diagnosis/definition of issues/definition of programme/identification of evaluation criteria);
- To develop the skills of a planner, capable of articulating the different planning processes and approaches (urban and landscape composition, legal structures, institutional and financial set-up) involved in a regional project;
- To examine in greater depth the issue of the tools and techniques of representation and projection in their capacity to provide images of the territorial project and to link the intervention to the receiving environment.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The territorial design studio is a design/project studio. This means that, from the outset, the analysis and the project merge into a single descriptive operation which, although never-ending, builds hypotheses for investigation and avenues for design. The workshop will extend from the strategic to the operational levels of urban planning.
Throughout the process, the questions raised in this workshop will be tackled at a number of different scales: the scales and frameworks given here are indicative and may be adapted as the workshop progresses:
* The macro scale of the regional territory and its periphery (60x60km and 30x30km);
* The municipal and scenario scale (15km x 3km, diagnostic analysis - atlas perimeter);
* And the prototypical intervention scale (approximately 1km x 1km, operational scale).
The proposals are necessarily cross-scale, incorporating global issues into local proposals and vice versa. The work is organised in groups. However, the entire study will be handled interactively and collaboratively, with each group informing the other of its work to stimulate discussion and converge on a common idea.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face, workshop
Recommended or required readings
Continuous assessment