Seminars

The studio is supported by History & Theory Seminars  that take place during Terms 1 and 2.  In addition to mandatory attendance at these events, students are required to make presentations and to undertake 3 visual essays.

Clara Oloriz & Elena Luciano

This lecture and seminar-based unit is concerned with the ways in which the intersections and interactions of landscape and urbanism have been thought, modelled, designed and analysed. This will introduce students to different ways of critically engaging with these matters, enabling them to build an understanding of the potentials and drawbacks of landscape urbanism. This, in turn, supports students’ practice and development, and informs their work in other studios.

Clara Oloriz & Elena Luciano

It focuses on key moments and practices in the historical development of cartography and its use as a representational device. We explore methods of mapping in terms of their uses, implications and potentials, and this enquiry informs the creation of a cartogenetic manifesto by each student, as well as the writing of their final project thesis.

José Alfredo Ramírez, Rob Booth & Elena Luciano

The seminar introduces students to the concepts, methods and techniques of policymaking, drawing on expertise from design and the social sciences to highlight the possibilities of policymaking as a spatial practice. Students will examine how policies design landscapes in lecture-based sessions which are followed by practical workshops. These sessions will begin by showing students how to dissect policy documents, academic publications, reports, manuals and evidence-based data. Subsequent workshops will provide the opportunity for students to design policy memos: official documents that synthesise key information. Students will identify and explain the constituencies, processes and instruments that design a landscape, and will develop a critical position supported by graphic evidence.