Brief description of the course:

The course will be based on the interaction between a critical vision of the social reality of our environment and the capacity of the audio-visual media to show the urban reality and tell a story. The course will cover both theory (introduction to media theory, photography, visual culture, project thinking) and practice (different exercises to produce audio and visual projects that will be either exhibited or published). For example, first project would be focused on the relationship between the housing and the citizens’ mode of living. The second one will be analysis of a place in the city and the way people use that space. The exercecises will end up with discussions, shared presentations between all students and exibitions. The course will develop skills to use a variety of audiovisual techniques and related software.

Goals:

This founding course will provide students with socio-oriented method of observing urban reality. It will enable students to recognize that the city is at the service of people that inhabit it and that the inhabitants are those who build the city. Through the various audiovisual techniques which will be represented in the course, the students will be able to recognize the behavior of people in the city and the patterns of the relationships between people and the city. The course will provide students with intense analytical vision of human behavior and sociological phenomena that often go unnoticed but which define the character of the cities.

Brief description of the course:

The theoretical part of the course will be dedicated to the introduction of various sources of information related to the functioning of cities. Students will also learn how urban big data can be represented. The practical part of the course will be dedicated to the students’ experiments with urban data obtainable from open sources and social media including data interpretation and visualisation. Students will also be asked to explain how their findings could impact city management and be used in urban development programs.

Goals:

This practical course will provide students with methods and instruments of extracting, analyzing and representing urban big data. The course will help students to understand how such analysis can improve city planning and management.

Brief description of the course:

The course will focus on studying urban economic data from public portals and mastering the instruments of data analysis. Using these instruments and crossing economic data with other types of city data students will be able to create maps and conduct complex urban analysis. The focus on studying externalities will help to better understand the urban economy. The results of student research will be presented on public platforms.

Goals:

The goal of this course is to demonstrate to the students how the use of economic information enriched with spatial dimension, and its transformation into maps can improve our understanding of cities and transform our approach to city management. The students will learn how to find, analyse and map the economic data available on public information portals. The course will be focusing on externalities in the urban economy, i.e. the indirect effects of consumption or production activities in the city which influence various urban systems. Based on the mapping analysis, conclusions will be made which will be later presented publicly through texts and animations.