Urban Transitions Lab. Co-Designing Sustainable Change

What it is about

You work interdisciplinarily on large-scale transformation processes in the urban space. In the module you analyze actor constellations and urban challenges, develop context-sensitive strategies and visual scenarios, and present these to relevant stakeholders; the goal is to develop sustainable design and implementation approaches and reflect on their feasibility.

What you will be able to do

• Enhanced understanding of urban problems and their interrelations
• Application of domain-specific knowledge to real urban situations
• Development of strategies and scenarios for more sustainable urban environments
• Inter- and transdisciplinary project collaboration
• Reflection on one's own Fachkenntnisse in the discourse of social-ecological and urban transformation

What the module consists of

• ProjektarbeitMain component: development of site analyses, sketches, graphical representations and visualizations in a team
• Mündliche PräsentationPresentation of the project results to representatives from science and city administration

Teaching method

• Explorativer Design-SprintEnables the development of several scenarios and design variants based on analytical and theoretical frameworks
• Interdisziplinäre GruppenarbeitPromotes input from different areas of expertise and negotiation between perspectives
• Intensiv-Workshop (dreitägig)Focused work phase for conducting the project and examining complex actor dynamics
• Präsentation und Diskussion mit StakeholdernVerification of feasibility and critical feedback from practitioners and researchers