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ACE550 Community Architecture and Urban Design

lp2 HT24 (15 hp)

Course is offered by the ACE Department, MPDSD Program

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Contact details

Examiner: Marco Adelfio, adelfio@chalmers.se (+46 733032076)

Lecturers/Teachers/Supervisors:

General Information

  • The studio starts on Monday November 4th, 2024, at 9.00!
  • The daily schedule for the course is usually between 8:00-17:00 (check canvas calendar for updated times and events at bottom of this page)
  • The course’s main location is in Hammarkullen
    • The address is Hammarkulletorget 62B (the entrance is in front of you when you exit the tram station, and it’s between the Folkets Hus and the library). For the first day you will have to ring the bell and/or call one of the teachers (numbers available above) in order to enter the building. Then take the elevator (or the stairs) up to the 7th floor . You can get to Hammarkullen with tram 4, 8 or 9 from the city centre and towards Angered, then get off at the station “Hammarkullen".
    • All lectures, workshops, course moments, etc. will take place in the hammarkullen studio unless otherwise noted in the calendar or mentioned by the teachers.
  • CANVAS Page
    • The canvas page consists of 6 modules, they can be found on the HOME page. The first is Course Information, where you will find general course info such as the Course PM, Literature, etc. In the other 5 Modules (Co-Initiation, Co-Analysis, Co-Design, Co-Implementation and Co-evaluation) you will find all the corresponding documents, workshop information, hand-ins etc. associated with each of the course modules. See the below in 'Course Design' diagram for an overview of how these modules correspond to the calendar.

Course purpose

The course aims to create design interventions that engage students with topics of social inclusion, equity, justice and citizen participation in architecture and urban design, through dialogue with local actors in stigmatized suburban contexts of Gothenburg. The course focuses specifically on those areas built in the 1960s and 70s as part of the Swedish Million Homes Program, working with their challenges and opportunities. This course examines social inclusion both as a process and as a goal of design projects by working with real stakeholders, their ongoing initiatives in the aforementioned areas and the existing power dynamics, inequalities and different levels of influence. It highlights the role of communities, social movements, and institutions in favour of, or against, social inclusion.

Course design

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Learning objective

The course prepares students to work as professionals with design, planning and regeneration/reconstruction of suburban areas, focusing on social inclusion. Still, the methodology of the course, and particularly its relationship with context-sensitive design projects and real stakeholders, is useful in general for any architecture practice when dealing with client-relations and design project management. The learning outcomes are achieved in the studio mainly through design projects and individual reflections. See specific Learning Outcomes in the course syllabus on the student portal (link at top of this page).

Examination form

To pass the course and receive a grade, you need:

  1. Presence at scheduled activities is required. For short absences, complementary assignments can be required as compensation.
  2. Active participation at seminars, workshops and in group work;
  3. Course exercises of sufficient quality (i.e. that fulfills the course learning outcomes and presentation requirements);
  4. Delayed submission of hand-ins without any approved motivation will negatively influence the grades;
  5. Electronic course evaluations should be filled in.

Criteria for grading (3, 4 or 5) can be found below:

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See Assessment & Grading sheet here for more details

The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers on educational support due to disability.

Schedule

We do not use TimeEdit in this course. Please always refer to the CANVAS calendar

 

Course summary:

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