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|||| Course overview

READING OF THE URBAN SPACE

PLACE + SPACE 2

Lecturer: Beatriz C. Maturana

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2nd Semester

PLACE AND SPACE

2005

BCM Lecturer: Beatriz C. Maturana

6/07/05

|||| The urban spaces we have created tell about our society - as our societal values change with time, so these spaces change to adapt to new functions, peoples, technology and ideas. Being able to read the space is complex and it is a critical aspect to investigate for anyone involved with any form of urban intervention. This course explores the relationship between the spaces we have created and what these spaces tell about ourselves. The course will focus on interpreting and understanding our relationship with the spaces we have created “urban spaces”. The relationship is based on the degree of our interventions, the reasons for them, our own interpretations and their functions in their current form.

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Course overview

By being able to interpret these spaces we will be better positioned to make proposals that respond to the reality of the place, whether the response is defiant or accommodating.

2. Understanding the elements that compose the space and place Structural elements: buildings, roads, traffic, architecture Perception: colour, scale, light, sound, textures, style, time Function: activities (commercial, transport, educational, entertainment…), degrees of spontaneity v/s organised activities, the relationship to the larger urban fabric 3. Space intervention: site analysis and proposed location for the intervention

Goals of the course: This course is intended to improve students’: Theoretical understanding of place and space Knowledge and engagement with the main fields having an impact in shaping the urban space

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1. Theoretical reading and discussions: the intangible forces that shape the urban space This section will deal with current social, political and economic forces determining the shape and use of the urban space This section will the way that economic process and globalisation are changing the interaction among cities and citizens Social elements: history, socio-economic make-up (age, income)

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The course is organised in three main components:

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|||| Learning objectives: Students will be assessed on their ability to:

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Familiarity with the terms and elements that conform space and place Ability to analyse the urban space and to articulate a response in a verbal and written form Technical tools to read and articulate space in their design proposals Graphic expression of their analysis and proposals

Understand modern theory of place and space Understand the fundamentals that conform space and place Analyse the urban space and articulate a response Discuss and present well developed and critically explored responses to the tasks Graphically articulate their ideas

1.

Theoretical discussions and class participation

15%

2.

Students will present a one page critical analysis dealing with the weekly readings and discussions questions arising from the readings can be incorporated for discussion. Each student will elaborate from a piece of current news and discuss it in relation to one or more theoretical points of view. The news will be relevant to the city by artwork, urban, planing or architecture.

15%

3.

An artwork project brief dealing with some of theories discussed in class: “imagining Sile”

15%

4.

A 1500 words written paper on a relevant topic

25%

5.

Site analysis utilising the theoretical tools acquired

30%

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Assessments will be used to indicate the degree of achievement of the course objectives and to indicate the individual level of progress relative to the class. It is required that students will incorporate to their folio:

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Assessment:

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Introduction to the course Lecture: “Environmentally sustainable practices”, presented by Su Mellersh-Lucas. Su is a PhD candidate at Deakin University and her vocation is in raising community participation in the arts and architecture.

2.

13-July-2005

Last semester work exhibit Lecture: Understanding the Principles of Urban Space

3.

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20-July-2005

Site analysis I: workshop 1: Visit and site analysis. Location to be decided on the day

1972, Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino. English edition translated by William Weaver 1974 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 2. Rogers, Richard (2001). Beauty is not a dirty word. A building without beauty is not architecture; it is a construction. Resurgence issue 207, July / August 2001

4.

27-July-2005

Site analysis I: workshop 2: Utilising the same site as for workshop 1 or the actual site for your proposed artwork, combine sketches, photos and maps to produce a site analysis.

Objectives: identify elements (activities/ social) that characterise this particular site. Destinations, activities (recreational, educational, commercial…), social fabric. Materials: pens, pencils, highlighter, scale ruler, compass, tracing/butter paper. Any other material that could assist your personal approach to the graphic expression of a site analysis.

Readings-Discussion 1. Dovey, Kim (2002). The New Heart of Melbourne. The Age, October 25 2003 2. Federation Square Management. Melbourne Gets Square. SMH, October 19 2002 3. Maturana, Beatriz (2003). Federation Square and the public realm: is this the new heart of Melbourne? Planning News Victoria, October 2003

5.

03-August-2005

Project Brief: discussion Readings-Discussion (1 hour) Schama, Simon (1995). Landscape and Memory: Introduction. HarperCollins 1. Publishers, Great Britain. pp 3-19

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Readings-Discussion 1. Calvino, Italo (1972). Invisible Cities. Italian edition (original title: Le città invisibili)

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Objectives: identify elements (physical) that characterise this particular site (nodes, landmarks, edges, grain, access, vistas, transport. Familiarise with plans, scale, texture in the built environment, context. Materials: paper, pens, pencils for sketching. Any other material that could assist your personal approach to a graphic expression of a site analysis.

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|||| Mumford, Lewis (1961). The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1961. 486, 509-512.

6.

10-August-2005

Project Brief: discussion Readings-Discussion 1. Davis, Mike (1998). Ecology of Fear: Beyond Blade Runner. Random House. pp.357411

7.

17-August-2005

Group assessment: site analysis and project brief (submission 2) • • • •



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2.

The submission is assessed on: Well founded project proposal Graphic presentation Good use of scale/dimensions Sound site analysis

Readings-Discussion

24-August-2005

Imagining Sile: artwork proposal (site analysis and project brief)

Readings-Discussion 1. 2.

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Bhabha, Homi (1994). The Location of Culture. Border Lives: the Art of the Present. Routledge. Sennett, Richard, 2000. Fighting the flexible firm. Interview in Red Pepper, 75, September 2000, http://www.redpepper.org.uk/

31-August-2005

Imagining Sile: artwork proposal (site analysis and project brief)

Readings-Discussion 1.

Cowan, Gregory (2004). Street Protest Architecture - Dissent Space in Australia. Bad Subjects Issue #65, January 2004

10. 07-September-2005 Imagining Sile: workshop presentation (submission 3) Readings-Discussion (1 hour) 1.

Dovey, Kim (1998). Safety and Danger in Urban Design. Paper presented at the conference Safer Communities: Strategic Directions in Urban Planning convened jointly by the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Victorian Community Council Against Violence, held in Melbourne, 10-11 September 1998

14-September-2005

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Ralston Saul, John (1999). Democracy and Globalisation. ABC Site © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Available on the Internet at: http://www.abc.net.au/specials/saul/fulltext.htm. Last accessed: 16/03/2004

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|||| 21-September-2005 Student’s vacation

28-September-2005 Student’s vacation

11. 05-October-2005 Site analysis II: workshop 1: your own artwork project site

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Student’s vacation

Objectives: identify elements (physical) that characterise this particular site (nodes, landmarks, edges, grain, access, vistas, transport. Familiarise with plans, scale, texture in the built environment, context. Materials: paper, pens, pencils for sketching. Any other material that could assist your personal approach to a graphic expression of a site analysis.

Readings-Discussion 1.

Siegel, Katy (2004), Eccles, T. (ed). Plop: Recent Projects of Public Art Fund: Puppy Love. Merrell Publishers Limited, London, New York. pp 29-37

12. 12-October-2005

1. 2.

Koolhaas, Rem (no published date). Junkspace. This paper is available from: http://www.btgjapan.org/catalysts/rem.html Grönlund, Bo (1997). Rem Koolhaas’s Generic City – and a modernist dilemma of ‘urbanisation’ vs.‘urbanity’ in avant-garde architecture. The Informational City and Street as Urban Form

13. 19-October-2005 Site analysis II: workshop 2: your own artwork project site Objectives: identify elements (physical) that characterise this particular site (nodes, landmarks, edges, grain, access, vistas, transport. Familiarise with plans, scale, texture in the built environment, context. Materials: paper, pens, pencils for sketching. Any other material that could assist your personal approach to a graphic expression of a site analysis.

Readings-Discussion 1.

Said, Edward (2003). Preface to Orientalism. Al-Ahram Weekly Online: 7 - 13 August 2003 (Issue No. 650). Located at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/650/op11.htm

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Readings-Discussion

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Lecture: to be advised

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|||| (submission 4) Readings-Discussion 1.

Sassen, Saskia (1999). The Spatiality and Temporality of Globalization. GaWC Annual Lecture 1999. Available on the Internet at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/al1.html

15. 2-November-2005 Site analysis II: workshop 3: your own artwork project site

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14. 26-October-2005

Readings-Discussion 1.

Sassen, Saskia (2002). Locating Cities on Global Circuits. “New Global History and the City” St. Petersburg January 9-12, 2003 Conference materials.

16. 9-November-2005 Site analysis II: workshop 4: your own artwork project site Readings-Discussion 1.

Castells, Manuel (1999). Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society. Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

(Final submission 5) Readings-Discussion Mitchell, William J (1995). City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. MIT Press, 1995

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17. 16-November-2005

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|||| Berman, Marshall (1982). All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, New York. Davis, Mike (1998). Ecology of Fear. Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Vintage Books. New York Paz. Octavio, translated by Kemp, L. (1985). The Labyrinth of Solitude: Modern Development as a dinner party and The Other Mexico. Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Gehl, Jan (1987). Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York Greenbie, Barrie (1981). Spaces: Dimensions of the Human Landscape. New Haven and London Yale university Press 1. Street Space: To Go Through or To Go To 2. Part II Public Spaces 3. Urban Space: The Marketplace of Goods and Symbols

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RECOMMENDED READINGS

Lynch, Kevin (1981). Good City Form. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London 1. From values in urban history 2. What is the form of the city and how is it made? Rogers, Richard. and Gumuchdjian, Philip. (1997). Cities for a small planet. Faber and Faber, London

Sennet, Richard (1997), Ellin, N. (ed). Architecture of Fear, “The Search for a Place in the World” (p. 61 to 69). Princeton Architectural press, New York Sennet, Richard (2001), M Echeñique and A Saint. (ed). Cities for The New Millenium. Spon Press, London 1. Capitalism and the City p. 15 to 21 Dovey, Kim (2002). De-placing Difference, Dialectics of Place: Authenticity, Identity, Difference. Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide INTERNET RESOURCES: Jan Gehl. LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS.Using Public Space. http://www.rudi.net/bookshelf/classics/lifebetweenbuildings/index.shtml Octavio Paz. Labyrinth of Solitude. http://fox.rollins.edu/~jsiry/Labyrint.html Guy Debord. The Society of the Spectacle. http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4

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Ross, Kristin (1988). The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune. (Theory and History of Literature Series). University of Minnesota Press, Macmillan Press, UK 1. Introduction 2. Chapter 1: The transformation of Social Space

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Koolhaas, Rem. O.M.A. and Mau, Bruce (1994). S,M,L,XL, What Ever Happened to Urbanism? The Monacelli Press, New York, USA.

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