Brief description of the course:

The course will run over 18 weeks in the laboratory setting. Every two weeks a particular aspect of technological fabrication, such as digital manufacturing, electronics or programming, will be explained and practiced. The course will include networking with other international fabrication laboratories, and some of the projects will be developed in collaboration with international groups and team leaders in a remote mode. As a result of the course, students will be able to integrate multiple technologies and information sources in their projects during the Master program.

Goals:

The course implies students’ active involvement in creating new technologies using laboratory equipment. The goal of the course is to teach students how to make technological elements using digital manufacturing, electronics and programming. By acquiring relevant skills students will learn to produce a variety of mechanisms, sensors, microcomputers, information platforms and other elements that can be used at the city scale. The course consists of exercises that help familiarise with these technologies and encourage students to produce more complex objects throughout the Master program.

Brief description of the course:

The course will last for 18 weeks during which students will be fully immersed in the laboratory work. Every two weeks a particular aspect of the city metabolism will be studied, including presentations of state-of-the art technology and its impact on city infrastructure. Subsequently, every student will develop a technological project covering one of the city layers (information, water, energy, recycled resources, mobility or environment) and reflecting on how information systems can help develop new formats of urban functioning. Every two weeks students will present the progress of their technological project.

Goals:

This course involves students’ immersion in the laboratory work. The key objective of the course is to provide students with deep knowledge of tecnical, economic and social aspects of the city infrastrucrure and its functioning. These include information, water, energy, recycled resources, food, mobility and environment and their integration in the process of city development. The course will provide a general introduction to each sysem to form a holistic approach to urban projects. The course will teach students how to treat resources in their projects and in the management of the city.

Brief description of the course:

Every two weeks a particular aspect of urban public spaces will be discussed with a focus on the analysis of technology and its impact on city development. Subsequently, every student will develop a technological project for public spaces that integrates information systems in order to develop new formats of public spaces. Every two weeks students will present the progress of their technological project. The result of the students’ technological projects will be integrated into their City projects.

Goals:

This course involves students’ full immersion in the laboratory work. The course aims to research technical, economic and social aspects of the city layers related to the public space as well as the potential of public spaces to impact urban networks. The course will be focused on urban mobility, natural networks and social intereactions. During the course students will be developing technologies that can be integrated into public spaces and can act as connectors of people and spaces. Students will use the acquired knowledge in order to create the networks and urban systems capable of amplifying social communication and strengthening neighbourhoods.