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SPRING 2012 LECTURE SERIES 18:00-20:00 aud de molen 18.00-20.00 17.00-20.00 AUD A, 00.54 11.00-13.00 BOKU 03.0010 18.00-20.00 AUD A 00.54 Ivan Llach TAAB6, Spain ‘Shifting Scales/ Matching Methods’ Jef van den Broeck Marc Twydr-Jones Francisco Lamiquiz Andy Pike ‘Pedestrian mobility and built environment’ Meng Yan Yanliu Lin Georges Heintz ‘Urban potential: urban life as a catalyst for change’ Anuradha Mathur School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, USA BOOK/ MAGAZINE LAUNCH 00.0024 KA10 aud B 7 21 00.0024 KA10 aud B aud Kasteel aud de Molen 18:00-20:00 aud de Molen 18.00-20.00 18.00-20.00 aud de Molen 16:00-18:00 aud de molen 18:00-20:00 23 28 may 26 march 13 february Jan Benthem ‘Central Station’ Eduardo Leira ‘ Large Urban Projects: Projects as Plans’ Helle Juul 22 march may 18.00-20.00 march march Urbanus, China ‘Urbanus: Recent projects’ OSA, KU Leuven ‘Village in the City: Guanghzou case’ ENSAS/ Heintz-Kehr France ‘Free Figures’ RECONSIDERING THE VILLAGE IN THE (expanding) CITY - TAIHU, BEIJING Kelly Shannon, Viviana d’Auria How can landscape be (re)considered as a spatial and productive asset in the dynamic transformation of China’s rapidly expanding capital city? How can the explicit inclusion of existing villages and their landscapes (with densification and new productivity) on the urban/ rural fringe become a planned counter model to the bull-dozing and tabula rasa city building modus? Can modes of resistance in the “normalization” and engulfing of villages in urban fabrics become new figures of “village in the city”, a specific and spectacular form of urbanization process in contemporary China? These large questions will be addressed through a design research investigation on a site in Beijing. The Taihu and Yizhuang Districts are 30 kilometers away from the capital city and southeast of the city’s 6th ring road. The low-lying agricultural area is between two large new densified towns, Tongzhou and Yizhuang. The areas presently has a population of 83,000, clustered in 46 villages and its popultaion it set to triple in 10 years. Within the Beijing master-planning ideal, the territory was envisioned as one of the so-called ‘green wedges’ between the first and second green rings of the city, however, unstoppable urban growth has thwarted such plans and the site will inevitably become an extension of Beijing itself—clearly reinforced by the introduction of the high-speed train that bisects the area (connecting Beijing-Tianjin). 19 27 march 3 27 may aud de molen 18:00-20:00 20 february KAST.00.0029 14.00-16.00 200A 00.225 18.00-21.00 12 june april Europe Kombilösung Project Karlsruhe _ Philip Banschbach Glattalbahn Urban Dev. Markus Knauss, Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz Strategic projects Munich _ Fritz Auweck, H. Brenner, C. Jens Infrastructure projects Basel _ name tbc Tramway project Strasbourg _ name tbc Prof. Zhang Tianxin Peking University Prof. Dihua Li Peking University Prof. Kongjian Yu Peking University Turenscape Prof. Wu Honglin Peking University Prof. Han XiLi Peking University Si Minjie Peking University UAO Creations Qui Baoxing Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development march ‘The maturity and diversity of spatial planning’ ‘Urbanism and SSP in strategic projects’ ‘Governing uneven development?’ P&D, KU Leuven Belgium Bartlett School of Planning, University College London UK Polytechnic University Madrid Spain CURDS, University of Newcastle, UK Rob Atkinson ‘The future for EU urban policy’ University of the West of England, UK 10 may I3 Consultores, Spain Benthem Crouwel Architects, The Netherlands JUUL / FROST Arkitekter , Denmark LECTURE SERIES MaHS/MaUSP/EMU: STUDY TRIP LECTURES: Master of Human Settlements - Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning - European Masters in Urbanism KULeuven Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning a: Kasteelpark Arenberg 1 - 3001 Heverlee (Leuven, Belgium) t: +32.16.32.13.91 w: www.asro.kuleuven.be/mahs www.asro.kuleuven.be/mausp aud Kasteel = Kasteelpark Arenberg 1 aud de Molen = Kasteelpark Arenberg 50 SPRING 2012 DESIGN STUDIOS: Urban Design Strategies Strategic Spatial Planning ‘Terrains of Water’ Wu Jun 13 february Huazhong University, Wuhan, China ‘Chinese R-urbanization: City in the Village & Village in the City’ BOKU 03.0010 10.30-12.30 Pierre Bélanger GSD, Harvard University, USA ‘Estuarine Urbanisms’ SPRING 2012 WORKSHOPS/ SYMPOSIA: URBANISMS OF INCLUSION (in cooperation with Atlantis programme) Miguel Robles-Duran, Quilian Riano, Maarten Van Acker (Parsons The New School), Bruno De Meulder The changing of geo-political boundaries across continents, the unprecedented shifting of socio-cultural demographics produced by the ongoing explosion of urbanization across the world and the current environmental - economic crisis generate new conditions that call into question traditional methods of intervention in the city. The complexity of these social, political and economic forces continues to simultane- ously generate local zones exclusion as well zones of conflict, where the drama of these collisions is magnified, transforming the territory, the city and the neighborhood as sites of contestation where different conditions of power are inscribed, at odds with one another. The partici- pants in New York will work on Sunset Park in Brooklyn until May and then join their colleagues in Belgium who are working on sites in Brussels and the former industrial belt of the Sambre (Charleroi) and the Haine (La Louvière, Le Centre, Mons and Le Borinage) in Belgium. While comparing these three sites and contexts and while traveling between scales and continents, the studio will address inclusion as a social and cultural phenomenon, which is also a fundamental objective and aim of the discipline of urbanism. CARTOGRAPHIES OF HYDROLOGY Kelly Shannon Cartographies of Hydrology explores the means of representing cross- scalar systems and logics, from large-scale regions and territories (watersheds) to the natural and man-made systems of waterways, dikes, sluices, pump stations, embankments, etc. Ultimately, the aim of such mappings and cartographies is to distil intrinsic logics and latent potentials and create new synergies between interdependent systems that (re)balance ecology, economy and socio-cultural values. Interpre- tative cartographies will trace the layered narratives of the landscape, its contested territories, mapped realities and eventually ‘what if’ scenarios that offer resilience in the face of contemporary challenges. Participants will be investigating the Le Centre and the Campine regions in Belgium, the qanats of Isfahan (Iran) and the Bogatá River in Bogatá (Colombia). STUDIO URBAN NATURE Kelly Shannon, Stefan D. Boris, Thomas J.Clemmensen f The project will focus on the regeneration of a drained lake called Kolindsund and its connected waterways in relation to the East Jutland City Region. The research will investigate ‘new natures’ and infrastruc- ture for the territory. The long sides of the former lake are distinctly different in character: the northern side with rolling hills is forested while the southern side is flat farmland. There are a handful of smaller settlements as well as the larger city of Grenå on the easternmost point. The studio will work in collaboration with the Aarhus School of Architecture. 25february - 11march 3-11march [landscape urbanism studio] [final thesis studios studios] Michiel Hulshof 14 february Director Go West project ‘China’s New Megacities’ BOKU 03.0010 16.00-18.00 18.00-20.00 aud Kasteel Bianca M. Rinaldi 23 april University of Camerino, Italy ‘The Chinese Garden Now’ ARCHITECTURE FOR LEISURE IN POSTWAR EUROPE, 1945-1989 Leuven, 16-18 February Janina Gosseye and Hilde Heynen (chairs) Between 1945 and 1989 a multitude of new collective spaces, such as cultural centres, swimming pools, sports halls, community centres, vacation villages, holiday resorts, leisure parks, etc… were constructed across (Western) Europe - many of them built with public funds. The European welfare state thus gave rise to an elaborate leisure infrastructure, which complemented the massive efforts on the housing front. Several publications in architectural history, social history and cultural studies have focused on interesting aspects of this development. Few studies, however, have sought to link the socio-historical understanding of the development of welfare policies aimed at the elaboration of leisure infrastructure in Europe with the spatial impact of these building programmes on different scale levels: from the architectural to the urban. The sixteen papers which will be presented during this international seminar, contribute to bridge this gap by focusing on the development of leisure infrastructure in different European contexts, combining architectural theory with socio-political history and cultural- and media studies, in order to develop novel insights and to broaden knowledge about the post-war welfare state. On Thursday-evening, February 16th, Christoph Grafe (T.U.Delft) and Janina Gosseye will give an opening lecture on ‘Cultural Centres in Europe’, chaired by Hilde Heynen. On Friday and Saturday, seventeen international speakers will present their work in four different sessions: ‘The Performance of Leisure’, ‘The Ideology of Leisure’, ‘The Discipline of Leisure’ and ‘Leisure as Travel’. Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne) and Tom Avermaete (T.U.Delft) will give key-note lectures. DESCRIPTIVE URBANISMS Bruno De Meulder The studio will focus on the analysis of issues and patterns. It aims to map what is “off the map”: the unconventional. Main focus of this thesis studio is the deep description and insightful mapping of and underesti- mated social and cultural components of the urban territory. Cases, such as the presence of European communities in Brussels, the structuring of the territory by civil society and that of secondary urban quarters, conventionally “off the map”, will be up for (re)consideration and (re)interpretation. While putting unconventional topics on the map, the studio simultaneously ambitions to renew, through a learning- by- doing approach, the methods of descriptiveion representation that urbanism employsuses, combining “‘thick”’ descriptions and telling cartographies. RE-CYCLING CITY EMU INTENSIVE WORKSHOP Venice, 29 June - 09 July Paola Viganó (coordinator) The design research workshop will investigate the notion of “100% recycling”. The hypothesis assumes that the transformation of territory should be tackled through processes of endogenous growth of the city, due to the reinvention and re-signification of already available urban materials. The reasons which support the “100% recycle” hypothesis are manifold and lie on what can be seen to be very different planes: that of limiting the consumption of non- renewable materials, reducing the energy consumption, and the economic and energetic rationality of a judicious use of the existing buildings and infrastructures. Beijing, China DEBATE The New Chinese Garden Bianca M. Rinaldi, University of Camerino, Italy . Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Norway Karsten Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Large Scale Housing Estates: Grands Ensembles in France Bernadette Blanchon-Caillot, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, France To Design Landscape: Art, Nature and Utility Catherine Dee, University of Sheffield, UK JoLA. Journal of Landscape Architecture Oliver Kleinschmidt, Büro Kleinschmidt, Germany The Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning offers 2 post-graduate programs in human settlements and urbanism: The Master of Human Settlements (MaHS) is a 2-semester degree which addresses rapid urbanization in the developing world and contemporary urban transformation within the scope of sustainable development. The internationally oriented Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning (MaUSP) is a 4-semester degree which addresses the critical understanding of contemporary conditions of cities and urban regions. The MaUSP programme is part of the European Masters in Urbanism (EMU) which is a high-quality, design oriented collaborative program with partner universities UPC Barcelona TU Delft and IUAV Venice. The core of all of the programs is the design studio complemented by compulsory and elective courses. aud A 00.54 = Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 BOKU 03.0010 = Kasteelpark Arenberg 40 aud 200A 00.225 = Celestijnenlaan 200a
