Seminar in Urban Culture and Design I

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of Portuguese language and at least one foreign language, preferably English.

Teaching Methods

Two types of teaching methods will be provided:

1. An open master class given by Visiting Professor to be followed the next day by a seminar session. Doctoral students should develop an individual essay for the course (to be delivered at the end of the semester) over a proposed theme. A member of the unit’s staff will monitor work, on a tutorial basis, during the time of its completion

2. Theoretical-practical lectures and seminars with each of the unit’s academic staff. Doctoral students should develop short time research works within the syllabus points of the Seminar.

Learning Outcomes

1. To promote a critical response on the part of doctoral candidates, to a current topic of research in the field of Urban Culture and Design, placed by a Visiting Professor of relevant academic and scientific merit, during a conference open to the public and a seminar session with the students of the PhD program.

2. Moreover, the curricular unit aims to provide doctoral students with an updated and comprehensive overview of the most relevant scientific research, recently developed in Portugal and abroad, in the field of Urban Culture and Design.

Emphasis will be given to the development of the following skills:

- Criteria in collecting information and research materials;

- Ability to develop critique and argumentation;

- Originality;

- Ability to clearly expose ideas;

- Ability to write fluently and objectively in Portuguese or English.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The syllabus of this Unit corresponds to current topics of research in the field of "Urban Culture and Design" placed by a Visiting Professor of relevant academic and scientific merit, during an open public Conference followed by a Think-Tank Seminar with the PhD students. In this sense, the specific contents are not pre-defined.

2. For the definition of the Unit curricula, contents can be summarized by the following research items:

- The city as "cultural palimpsest": through diachronic readings of urban developments, regarding the sedimentation of different political cultures (thinking the Polis) and design cultures (making the Polis);

- The city as "cultural hypertext": through synchronic readings of large "urban architectures" generated at different times also as symbols of the Polis;

- The identification of conceptual, structural and symbolic invariants of that "urban thinking" and "urban making", established by the crossing of those synchronic and diachronic readings.

Head Lecturer(s)

Nuno Alberto Leite Rodrigues Grande

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Evaluation will be two-folded: 1. A written essay on the theme proposed by the Visiting Professor; 2. Short research and systematization works within the thematic guidelines. Emphasis will be given to the: - Criteria in collecting information and research materials; - Ability to develop argumentation; - Originality; - Ability to clearly expose ideas; - Ability to write fluently and objectively.: 100.0%

Bibliography

ASCHER, F. (2004), Los Nuevos Principios del Urbanismo. Madrid

BANDEIRINHA, J. A. (2007), O Processo SAAL e a Arquitectura no 25 de Abril de 1974. Coimbra

BORJA, J., (2003) La ciudad Conquistada. Madrid

CORBOZ, A. (2001), Le Territoire comme palimpseste et autres essais, Besançon

GRANDE, N. (2012) O Ser Urbano. Nos caminhos de Nuno Portas. Guimarães

HALL, P. (2000)Cities in Civilisation, London

KOSTOV, S.(1991-2), The City Shaped / The City Assembled. London

MUMFORD, E. (2000)The CIAM discourse on Urbanism. Cambridge, MA

NOGUEIRA, H.; SANTANA, Pe SANTOS, R.(2006) “Linking perceptions of health to neighbourhood environment in Lisboa Metropolitan Area, Portugal”, in The Sustainable City IV. Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. Southampton Boston

PORTAS, N., DOMINGUES, A. CABRAL, J. (2003), Políticas Urbanas. Tendências, Estratégias, Oportunidades, Lisboa

ROSSI, A. (1982), La Arquitectura de la Ciudad. Barcelona

SOLA-MORALES, M. (1997), Formas del crecimiento urbano. Barcelona