2. Introductory Lecture
6-6:10
Purpose of this course
Where are we? Introductory images
6:10-6:30
Course Structure
Syllabus
- Readings, Assignments, Tumblr Blog
6:30-7PM
- Why are we dealing with space?
- What is the multi-national city? What is the global city?
- Visual Research - Map making, Diagrams, Data Viz
7-7:15
Explain homework and readings
- Will review homework in detail in small group meetings on Friday
3. Where are we?
“They speak of Beirut as if it were an abstraction of the human
experience: it is not. Beirut was a city like any other and its people
were a people like any other. What happened here could happen
anywhere.”
- Makdial, 1990 from Divided Cities
“Especially between 1890 and 1940 a new culture (the Machine Age?) selected
Manhattan as a laboratory: a mythical island where the invention and testing of a
metropolitan lifestyle and its attendant architecture could be pursued as a collective
experiment in which the entire city became a factory of man-made experience, where
the real and the natural ceased to exist.”
“Manhattan is an accumulation of disasters that never happen.”
- Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978
11. “The MNC is haunted by old memories and by visionary hallucinations.”
- Baxi and Martin
12. What are we to do?
1. Learn to read space
urban design theory + frameworks
2. Conduct visual research
mapping, photo, video, site analysis
3. Collaborate across disciplines
architecture, urban planners, international developers, technologist
4. Practice
field work, testing, prototyping
5. Share
social media, open source platforms
13. How will we learn?
Course Structure
Syllabus
Readings
Assignments
Tumblr Blog
20. Homework Map a node of a local foodshed:
1. Locate a site where food is consumed, produced, sold and
visit it.
2. Identify the flows shaping your site (e.g. cultural, economical,
spatial, social). Find ways to visually document them and write
about them.
3. Take photos that document the specific site condition. Add
them to your map.
(You can do this in Google MyMaps or in other open-source
mapping platform)
Image: Liz Kueneke, Barcelona