All Things Urban

Urban Resilience relying to the robustness and preparedness of our built environment and society to its vulnerability is often hard to catch when it comes about its integration and realisation in the day to day realities. Disciplines related to spatial development are more and more asked to respond to these requirements to adapt to unexpected occurrences of natural hazards (earth quakes, floods) and to become reactive in the built space. Next to the building related knowledge about vulnerability and preventive or adaptive measures among architects and engineers the process and acceptance of it is dependant from cultural values as well. The overarching topic of urban resilience therefore can be treated with a transcultural perspective, as a cultural landscape understood as an environment that is created by humans in relation to their natural surroundings with today’s expectations to construct resilient structures and communities. The process of change that forms the cultural landscapes for urban resilience requires an interdisciplinary approach that is taking into account diverse aspects for building schemes and planning processes. Participants will learn about several aspects of urban resilience from an environmental and cultural perspective through different tools, scientific methods and analysis, including gis-techniques. The course will introduce more general approaches for integrated urban development and urban sustainability to the specific analysis of urban heat islands as well as the analysis of different construction typologies in relation to risks of earthquake damage. For case study we will refer to two different settlements forms: informal and formal, trying to weigh in how far both forms can contribute to resilient settlement patterns and which additional measures should be taken into consideration. The course will systematically approach an understanding of urban resilience that both connects man-made as well as natural conditions in the urban context, including scales from the urban to the building level. - Setting parameters for urban resilience - The complexity of Integrated Urban Development Concepts and the realities - Analytical approaches to urban heat islands (neighbourhood level and larger) - Assessment of Earthquake risks (building level) - Societal ideals and the impact of urban green for the urban environment - Drawing out a comparative study between informal and formal settlements - Learn how affected areas can be connected to user-oriented systems - Consequences from the case studies for integrative planning schemes Next to planning in an interdisciplinary and transnational context, the workshop offers different options to learn about different approaches and urban typologies and to assess them in a broader perspective for finally being able to shape and design in different geographical and cultural systems.

- Curriculum vitae: max. two pages - English language certificate: at least level B1 or equivalent - Letter of motivation: Why do you want to take this course? - Max. 500 words - Portfolio: Introduce at least three of your projects. Use photos, sketches or texts!

3 ECTS

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is an international research university that is committed to the idea of Bauhaus and therefore has a traditionally international orientation. Its aspiration is to combine arts with sciences and technics which leads us to run a path that is unique in Germany.

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