Duration
Number of credits
| Master in urban planning and territorial development, professional focus in post-industrial and rurban territories | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Course description
The "Describing the territory" course is a theoretical complement that accompanies and is linked to the territory project workshop (ARCH0095). The course approaches the discipline of urban planning and its tools as a descriptive action of the territory. Between reading and writing, the tools of the urban planning project question the existing situations of the territories and their possible transformations.
The aim of the course is to explore a series of paradigmatic descriptive figures or tools within the discipline of urban planning, their origins, definitions and graphic, literary and scientific applications. These tools carry with them complex theoretical and applied concepts that will be discussed. The aim is to reflect on the way in which a representation is produced, and its conceptual, critical and political significance. This teaching unit is therefore not a practical drawing course but a reflection on the tools of description (graphic and literary) of our environment and our territories.
Course structure
The "Describing the Territory"course is structured around lectures and seminars that deal with the following tools and figures of urbanism (this is an illustrative list; the figures proposed may change)
- the palimpsest
- the transect
- the archipelago
- the network
- the walk
- the microhistory/microstory
- ...
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the activity, students will be able to :
- describe and analyse simple and complex description operations (graphic and literary) of the territory, its built and unbuilt morphologies, its functioning and its agencies issues.
- read and understand a text describing an area and a project, highlight themain arguments, criticise them and put them into perspective with the state of the art, or in dialogue with a concrete situation or a specific project.
- be familiar with a number of major theoretical references and develop a critical approach to them.
- write a short text in the form of a scientific article/essay on territorial description operations based on the state of the art and project situations.
- become aware of the political role of the description in a project, the responsibility it entails, and the ethics involved in taking an architectural and urban planning stance on the issues facing society and the environment.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course content is presented in a series of lectures. At the same time, seminars are held with the students based on compulsory readings related to the figures mentioned. The students raise observations, questions and critical positions in relation to their reading of the texts, and relate them to issues of description and representation of the territory.
The course takes place in placewise and timewise in the continuity of the 'territorial project' studio. Interactions and timetable adjustments may be made between these two teaching units.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Other site(s) used for course materials
- bibliothèque universitaire (https://explore.lib.uliege.be/)
Further information:
Selection of recommended references
Ait-Touati, F., Arènes, A., Grégoire, A. 2019. Terra Forma. Manuel de cartographies potentielles. Montreuil, Editions B42.
Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S. & Silverstein, M. 1977) A Pattern Language, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Aureli, P. V. 2010. Rome the centre(s)elswhere, Skira
Banham, R. 1971. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, New York, Harper&Row Publishers
Barcelloni Corte, M., & Viganò (Eds.). 2022. The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Cavalieri, C., Viganò, P. (eds) 2019. The Horizontal Metropolis, a radical project, Zurich, Park Books
Corboz, A. 1993. Atlas du territoire genevois permanences et modifications cadastrales aux XIXe et XXe siècles., Chêne-Bourg, Genève, Georg
Corboz, A. 2001, parution originale 1983. Le Territoire comme palimpseste et autres essais, Besançon, Les Éditions de l'Imprimeur
Corner, J. 1999. "The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention", in: Cosgrove D. (ed) Mappings, London, Reaktion Books, p.213
Desvigne, M. 2009. Natures Intermédiaires, Bâle, Birkhauser
Grosjean, B. 2010. Urbanisation sans urbanisme : une histoire de la ville diffuse, Wavre, Mardaga
Haraway, D. J. 2020. Vivre avec le trouble, Vaulx-en-Velin, Les Éditions des Mondes à faire
Koolhaas, R., Mau, B. 1995. S,M,L,XL, Rotterdam, Nai010 publishers
Lynch, K. 1960. The image of the city, Cambridge Massachusetts, The MIT Press
McHargh, I. 1969. Design with Nature, New York, Wiley and Sons
Muratori, S., (ed.) 1963. Studi per una operante storia urbana di Roma, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche
Rossi, A. 1978. L'architettura della città, Milano, Il saggiatore [editioin française : 2006. L'architecture de la ville, Gollion, édition InFolio]
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Secchi, B., Viganò, P. 2011. La ville poreuse: un projet pour le Grand Paris et la métropole de l'après-Kyoto, Geneve, Metis Presses
Sijmons, D. 2014. Landscape and Energy, Designing Transition, Rotterdam, Nai010
Smets, M. 1977b. L'avènement de la cité-jardin en Belgique, histoire de l'habitat social en Belgique 1830-1930. Bruxelles-Liège : Mardaga.
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Smets, M. 1986. La Belgique ou la banlieue radieuse. In: Fondation pour l'architecture (ed.) Paysages d'architectures (catalogue d'exposition). Bruxelles.
Smets, M. 2002. Raster, Hu¨lse, Lichtung und Montage / Grid, casco, clearing and montage. Texte zur Landschaft / About Landscape. Munich/Basel: Edition Topos, Callwey/ Birkhauser.
Smets, M. 2016. De Stad Ontwerpen. Een leven tussen theorie en praktijk van stedenbouw (Designing the City. A life between theory and practice of urbanism) Dutch original. Leuven : Lipsius Publisher.
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Van Acker, M. 2014. From Flux to Frame. Designing Infrastructure and Shaping Urbanization in Belgium. Leuven : Leuven University Press
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Vanneste, G. 2022. Urbanisation et parcellaire. Formation et transformations de la ville-territoire autour des grandes propriétés du Brabant wallon au 19e et au 20e siècle, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain
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Viganò, P. 1999. La città elementare, Torino, Einaudi
Viganò, P. 1999. La città elementare, Torino, Einaudi
Viganò P., Secchi, B. 2009. Antwerp, territory of a new modernity, Sun Publishers
Viganò, P. 2010. Les territoires de l'urbanisme. Le projet comme producteur de connaissance, Geneva, MetisPresses
Viganò, P., Secchi, B., Fabian, L. 2016. Water and asphalt, The Project of Isotropy, Zurich, Park books
Viganò, P., Cavalieri, C., & Barcelloni Corte, M. (Eds.). 2018. The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization. Springer.
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Zitouni, B. 2010 Agglomérer ! Une anatomie de l'extension bruxelloise (1828-1915). Bruxelles: VUBPRESS Brussels University Press.
Zitouni, B., Tellier, C. 2013. Comment les corps techniques construisent la ville. Brussels Studies
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Further information:
The assessment of students' achievements consists of a piece of work started during the four-month term and completed during the term. The work is a written and illustrated report, which takes the form of a scientific essay/article, and which presents a critical and sensitive reading of one or more freely chosen representations from the "territorial project" studio (ARCH0095) based on the concepts and tools presented during the course and discussed in the seminar sessions. Coaching sessions are planned during the four-month term to guide the structure of the student's work. The work is submitted on ecampus during the term, there is no oral defence.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
For logistical questions relating to the master's degree and the faculty, please contact the appropriate people.
For the content of the teaching unit :
guillaume.vanneste@uliege.be
Priority is given to answering questions in class. E-mails are dealt with as quickly as possible, but there may be a delay.