Duration
128h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture, professional focus in architecture and urban planning | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Thinking about architecture in relation to the ecological crisis.
The workshop proposes to carry out a variety of surveys, developing graphic narratives that are sensitive, historical, critical and documentary.
The workshop takes note of ecological emergencies and the need to include in architectural training tools for perceiving and reconstructing human and non-human experiences of today's damaged places and territories.
The workshop's activities are organized around a presence in situ, meetings with residents and users, walks through the territory and the places that make it up, and the restitution of these situations through various media: drawing, photography, text and video.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Upon completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
- Collect, classify, and synthesize data gathered during an investigation
- Design a graphic and/or media translation (graphic narrative) that reflects a sensitive, critical, and reflective posture in order to study the existing and propose new alliances with the living.
- Situate one's work in a historical, theoretical, architectural and artistic context.
- Master a contemporary graphic language.
- Use the appropriate theoretical notions to present, discuss and debate.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Course topics are covered in the form of workshops and interactive presentations to the whole group. They are supported by presentations (slideshows, videos, websites), written documents and group discussions around the workshop themes (ecological crisis).
Students will design a project that :
- takes into account what already exists
- uses speculative fiction to create new possibilities and break with dominant narratives;
- develops a critical viewpoint on the ways in which we intervene in territories;
- poses new ways of cohabiting with the non-human;
- doesn't simply seek to formulate answers to a set of specifications, but also asks questions, and challenges design methods.
Workshop teaching encourages :
articulations between research and project; trans-scalar approaches (from local to global and back); involved, engaged and sensitive approaches to the territories surveyed; approaches through situations and contextual and relational experimentation.
Students will produce graphic narratives that can explore all scales, from that of the detail to that of the territory, and be embodied in multiple forms: drawing, collage, photography, texts, installations, models, 1/1 prototypes, installations, in-situ interventions, performances, sound and video productions.
These graphic narratives will be regularly shared and discussed collectively.
At the end of the workshop, students will produce a publication bringing together all their work in a concerted final object.
Field visits and explorations are planned.
Documents - texts, visuals, lectures, etc. - presented and used during the course are available on eCampus.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
In-class learning activities
Further explanations:
Combination of face-to-face and distance learning activities
Further explanations:
The workshop will take place face-to-face and remotely (hybrid).
There will be regular trips to Charleroi (the site chosen for this year's workshop).
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Auger, J. (2013)."Speculative design. Crafting!the!speculation" Digital "creativity, vol.24,!n° 1, pp. 11-35
Badiou, A. Lieu, sujet, vérité, architecture(r). Conférence à UCL. 2019. (captation audio mise à disposition sur ecampus)
Bertrand, G. (2015). La mécanique des temps : jeux de dialogues entre design et politique», co-écrit avec Maxime Favard, in Poïétiques du design 3 - Conception et politique, Paris, L'Harmattan, collection Esthétique, série Ars, 2015, p. 107 à 139.
Bertrand, G. (2016). Le design critique et les nouveaux enjeux de conception : un territoire historico-géopolitique de 1960 à nos jours. Art et histoire de l'art. Université de Strasbourg, 2016. En ligne : HAL archives ouvertes, 02/10/2017, HAL Id: tel-01599267.
Bony, H., Mosconi, L., & Blanc, N. (2023). Paris animal?: histoire et re´cits d'une ville vivante. Pavillon de l'Arsenal.
Chénin, M., & Thévenot, L. (2024). Le commun par l'usage?: construire et habiter en artiste. MetisPresses.
Clément, G. (2013). Manifeste du tiers paysage?: e´dition augmente´e d'un avant-propos (E´dition augmente´e d'un avant-propos). Sens et Tonka.
Clément, G. (1998). Les Portes. 11&24.
Non-Extractive Architecture?: Vol. 1, On Designing without Depletion. (2021). SternbergPress.
Darcis, D. (2023). Penser autrement les ruines : du Tiers paysage rural à la réinvention des communs. Interfaces (Dijon. En Ligne), 49. https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.6460
Denis, J., & Pontille, D. (2022). Le soin des choses?: politiques de la maintenance. La De´couverte.
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013).Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. Cambridge : MIT Press
Export, V. Körperkonfigurationen (Photographie). 1972-76
Gisse, D. (2012). Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments. Princeton Architectural Press
Gras, P., Lussault, M., & Mirza, V. (2023). Imaginer l'après?: vulnérabilité environnementale et décision publique en contexte post-catastrophe. Éditions Deux-Cent-Cinq.
Grossman, V., & Miguel, C. (Eds.). (2021). Everyday matters?: contemporary approaches to architecture. Ruby Press.
Latour, B., & Weibel, P. (Eds.). (2020). Critical zones?: the science and politics of landing on earth. ZKM Center for Art and Media.
Malterre-Barthes, A.-C., Chabani, M., Angélil, M., Siress, C., Newsom, J., Carruthers, T., Architecture Climate Action Network author, & Architecture Climate Action Network author. (2024). On architecture and greenwashing. Hatje Cantz.
Macé, M. (2023). Respire. Verdier.
Menchero, Emilio Lopez (2010). Pasionaria (Intervention urbaine). 2006. et Checkpojnt Charlie (performance). 2010.
Papanek, V. (1974). Design pour un monde réel : écologie humaine et changement social. Mercure de France, Paris.
Rollot, M., Constant, E., & Palacio, M.-F. de. (2018). Les territoires du vivant?: un manifeste biore´gionaliste. Editions Franc¸ois Bourin.
Sample, H. (2016). Maintenance architecture. The MIT Press.
Simay, P. (2024). Bâtir avec ce qui reste?: quelles ressources pour sortir de l'extractivisme?? Éditions Terre Urbaine.
Tsing, A. L., & Pignarre, P. (2017). Le champignon de la fin du monde?: sur la possibilité de vivre dans les ruines du capitalisme. La Découverte.
Tsing, A., & Julien, L. (2021). Vers une théorie de la non-scalabilité. Multitudes (Paris, France), 82(1), 65-71. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.082.0065
Tsing, A. L., Schaffner, M., & Stengers, I. (2022). Proliférations. Wildproject.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Other : jury
Further explanations:
- 20% for active and committed participation in workshop discussions
- 30% for workshop production during the term
- 50% for final production
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Michael Bianchi
mbianchi@uliege.be
Eric Le Coguiec (Professor)
eric.lecoguiec@uliege.be