Lecture Series 1: Urban and Landscape Transformation
urban and landscape transformation of Munich:
reflecting theoretical positions on case studies
Content
The topic area Urban and Landscape Transformation investigates complex and networked urban landscapes and systems in times of global transformation. Urban hinterlands are reservoirs or vital resources that have increasingly become exposed to global ecological, economic and social challenges and have become the focus of environmental and sustainability debates. Whilst global transformation processes are difficult to influence let alone control with the classic tools of the designer, architecture, urban design and landscape architecture do offer a repertoire of possibilities to integrate complex spatial, aesthetic, social, cultural, ecological and sustainable qualities into contemporary living environments. The lecture shows examples of projects and approaches from TUM, on how to conceptualise and strengthen such urban and landscape transformation areas.
Learning Targets
After attending the lecture and completing two elaborations (graphic compositions), the students are able to recognize and understand current patterns of transformation of contemporary urban and suburban landscapes including connections between ecological, socio-cultural and economic factors. Based on the presentation of examples, students can reflect and understand basic ideas and approaches for strengthening these and transforming them into sustainable urban landscapes.
Exam
The students are to develop compositions for two of the scheduled sessions (short drafts, graphic analysis, reflective presentation). This will require students to investigate and discuss the presented topics within the particular context of the city of Munich. More information on Moodle.
Teaching Method
Walking tours to places of case-studies with on-site lectures and discussions / or normal lecture in the Vorhoelzer Forum
winter semester 2024/25
Program: Mondays, 11.30 Uhr -13.00 Uhr
21/10/2024 - Introduction: Critical Reconstruction of (urban) Landscape
Prof. Dr. Schöbel-Rutschmann
Landscape Architecture and Regional Open Space
Vorhoelzer Forum
28/10/2024 -Transforming Urban Streets
Prof. Dr. Boucsein
Professorship Urban Design
online
04/11/2024 - Public Transport Accessibility as Urban Generator
Dr. Fabian Wenner
Chair of Urban Development
Vorhoelzer Forum
11/11/2024 - Facing the City: The freedom of the facade
Prof. Stephen Bates
Chair for Urban Design and Housing
Vorhoelzer Forum
18/11/2024 - Let's make the Sustainable City!
Prof. Mark Michaeli
Chair of Sustainable Urbanism
Vorhoelzer Forum
25/11/2024 - Big Forms
Prof. Bruno Krucker
Chair for Urban Design and Housing
Vorhoelzer Forum
02/12/2024 - Piazza Zenetti
Felix Lüdicke
Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Spaces
Excursion Piazza Zenetti (Zenettipl. 3, München)
09/12/2024 - Landscape: a term - a concept - a law?
Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher
Chair of Landscape Architecture and Transformation
online
16/12/2024 - Munich‘s Texture as a City of Collage
Dr. Julian Schäfer
Professorship of Landscape Architecture and Regional Open Space
online