Hubert Klumpner: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2021 |
| Name | Prof. Hubert Klumpner |
| Field | Architecture and Urban Design |
| Address | Professur Architekt. u. Städtebau ETH Zürich, ONA J 14 Neunbrunnenstr. 50 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 633 90 78 |
| Fax | +41 44 633 11 83 |
| klumpner@arch.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Architecture |
| Relationship | Full Professor |
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| 052-0707-00L | Urban Design III  | 2 credits | 2V | H. Klumpner, M. Fessel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Students are introduced to a narrative of 'Urban Stories' through a series of three tools driven by social, governance, and environmental transformations in today's urbanization processes. Each lecture explores one city's spatial and organizational ingenuity born out of a particular place's realities, allowing students to transfer these inventions into a catalog of conceptual tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | How can students of architecture become active agents of change? What does it take to go beyond a building's scale, making design-relevant decisions to the city rather than a single client? How can we design in cities with a lack of land, tax base, risk, and resilience, understanding that Zurich is the exception and these other cities are the rule? How can we discover, set rather than follow trends and understand existing urban phenomena activating them in a design process? The lecture series produces a growing catalog of operational urban tools across the globe, considering Governance, Social, and Environmental realities. Instead of limited binary comparing of cities, we are building a catalog of change, analyzing what design solutions cities have been developing informally incrementally over time, why, and how. We look at the people, institutions, culture behind the design and make concepts behind these tools visible. Students get first-hand information from cities where the chair as a Team has researched, worked, or constructed projects over the last year, allowing competent, practical insight about the people and topics that make these places unique. Students will be able to use and expand an alternative repertoire of experiences and evidence-based design tools, go to the conceptual core of them, and understand how and to what extent they can be relevant in other places. Urban Stories is the basic practice of architecture and urban design. It introduces a repertoire of urban design instruments to the students to use, test, and start their designs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Urban form cannot be reduced to physical space. Cities result from social construction, under the influence of technologies, ecology, culture, the impact of experts, and accidents. Urban un-concluded processes respond to political interests, economic pressure, cultural inclinations, along with the imagination of architects and urbanists and the informal powers at work in complex adaptive systems. Current urban phenomena are the result of urban evolution. The facts stored in urban environments include contributions from its entire lifecycle, visible in the physical environment, and non-physical aspects. This imaginary city exists along with its potentials and problems and with the conflicts that have evolved. Knowledge and understanding, along with a critical observation of the actions and policies, are necessary to understand the diversity and instability present in the contemporary city and understand how urban form evolved to its current state. How did cities develop into the cities we live in now? Urban plans, instruments, visions, political decisions, economic reasonings, cultural inputs, and social organization have been used to operate in urban settlements in specific moments of change. We have chosen cities that exemplify how these instruments have been implemented and how they have shaped urban environments. We transcribe these instruments into urban operational tools that we have recognized and collected within existing tested cases in contemporary cities across the globe. This lecture series will introduce urban knowledge and the way it has introduced urban models and operational modes within different concrete realities, therefore shaping cities. The lecture series translates urban knowledge into operational tools, extracted from cities where they have been tested and become exemplary samples, most relevant for understanding how the urban landscape has taken shape. The tools are clustered in twelve thematic clusters and three tool scales for better comparability and cross-reflection. The Tool case studies are compiled into a global urbanization toolbox, which we use as typological models to read the city and critically reflect upon it. The presented contents are meant to serve as inspiration for positioning in future professional life and provide instruments for future design decisions. In an interview with a local designer, we measure our insights against the most pressing design topics in cities today, including inclusion, affordable housing, provision of public spaces, and infrastructure for all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | The learning material, available via https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/ is comprised of: - Toolbox 'Reader' with an introduction to the lecture course and tool summaries - Weekly exercise tasks - Infographics with basic information of each city - Quiz question for each tool - Additional reading material - Interviews with experts - Archive of lecture recordings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | - Reading material will be provided throughout the semester. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 052-0725-21L | ACTION! Beautiful Data - The Filmic Art of Numbers  | 2 credits | 2U | H. Klumpner, C. E. Papanicolaou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | In the turf war between quantitative and qualitative methods, we appear as mediators bridging the two sides. How can quantitative and qualitative methods complement each other rather than work in opposition? We will encourage reflections on this by developing new forms of urban literacy integrating ethnographic research methods with quantitative data, filmmaking and other forms of digital media | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Through a combination of practical exercises in video and audio techniques in parallel with the study of seminal observation-driven texts, this course aims to equip students with the basic tools and core principles to create short but complex portraits of urban space. This semester, the focus falls on the green spaces of Zürich, looking at its trees, green corridors, heat islands, and atmospheric conditions. This approach will be applied to experiments in the audio/visualization of quantitative data and the contextualization of qualitative data that in turn inform quantitative outputs. Through various audiovisual experiments, students will collectively speculate on ways to marry the various forms of research methods that traditionally do not intersect, creating mosaics of experimental research forms, manifested through film and audio. Using widely available recording tools and editing software, students will turn their fieldwork into short video or audio works of about 3-5 minutes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The course will compose of lectures, practical crash courses in media use and storytelling, and fieldwork sessions. The course will be a laboratory in the creation of short media works that aim to inform the architectural design process, working between the city and the studio in ONA. Students will be expected to complete all required work within the hours that the elective meets, with few requirements outside of the class hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Seminal texts include: - ‘Cross-Cultural Filmmaking’ (Barbash, Castaing-Taylor) - ‘Acoustic Territories’ (LaBelle) - 'Ethnography: Principles in Practice' (Hammersley, Atkinson) - 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture (Geertz) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-1139-21L | Architectural Design V-IX: Climate Corridors Sarajevo. Shaping Public Water Places Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php). Teaching Languages: English and German Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2.11.21, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. This is the ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio. | 14 credits | 16U | H. Klumpner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | How can we as designers radically reimagine place-making in Sarajevo by connecting the existing natural and built environment with local resources and digital infrastructures as models for sustainable living? The watershed of the Miljacka River has the potential to unlock socio-ecological systems and multifunctional corridors, that address urban fragmentation, and Climate Action. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Climate corridors Sarajevo. Shaping public water places. Students will emerge in our Chair’s “method-design” to step by step develop their individual prototypical design projects. They will address both architectural urban scales and will be guided to collaboratively develop a baseline scenario. Mapping, identifying existing and future challenges and opportunities, students will take the role of stakeholders and translate their demands and resources into different scenarios. They will design urbanistic concepts and translate them into an evidence-based prototypical architectural project- intervention. This prototype is the synthesis of a process in time and space on different scales. The design project will be framed as a narrative that is consequentially visualized and communicated in analogue and digital graphic representations. The project concept will be tested and upscaled through urbanistic design-policy recommendations within overlapping spatial and programmatic systems of CLIMATE -CORRIDORS. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The basic thesis for this Studio Fall Semester 2010 is constructing an urban imaginary creating an interplay of a linear public space system providing identity and orientation in the Miljacka River valley of Sarajevo. Sarajevo´s culture is as diverse as its rich architecture and history of urbanization. Located on the Balkan Route, a crossroads between north and south, east and west, the city confronts us with one of the highest pollution levels of air, soil water, of any capital city in Europe. The watershed of the Miljacka River, wells, fountains, retention infrastructures, and flood plains are our point of departure. They have the potential to unlock socio-ecological systems, multifunctional corridors, and catalytic projects, that can transform fragmented neighborhoods, offering a living system of public water-places to the inhabitants. At the intersection of architecture, landscape, and public art, the studio envisions trans-scalar processes and interventions, addressing the cities social and ecological crisis, in support of the Sarajevo Cantonal Planning Office, applying a systemic design methodology, and responding to the urgent need for concrete projects and Climate Action. Policy recommendations and general advice for upscaling such prototypical concepts are already successful in other cities globally and apply to the Sarajevo-Case. The design challenge includes redesigning and densifying public open space, that combines social and environmental developments into a system of architecture, urban, and landscape design networks. The transformative redevelopment of existing street corridors and the interplay of architecture with landscape design and concrete prototypical and small-scale design interventions is critical for bringing together segregated communities in quality public space along degraded transport corridors. Linear multifunctional corridors can strategically connect to the immediate context and subcenters with feeder routes (considering Zmaja od Bosne), participatory public spaces, markets, playgrounds, production, and creating new eco-systemic connections with increased social and ecological qualities. Atmospheric contamination, fine dust, and CO2 have created during inversion weather one of the highest air contamination levels of any capital city in Europe compromising the health of Sarajevo’s people. Climate change is challenging necessary processes to re-planting the forest and trees of the city. The compliance with the targets and indicators of the SDGs pose considerable additional tasks to solve. In recent years, the bust and boom cycle in Sarajevo has put doubt on opportunistic international urban upgrading models linked with opportunistic investments, gentrification, and short-term gains for private investors. We have developed a toolbox by analyzing internationally recognized developments, sometimes permanent and temporary strategies such as Chengyecheon River Park, Seoul, Isarpark, Schlachthof / Munich, Corredores Verdes / Medellin or Cali, communal target-plan Zurich, Closed Highways in Sao Paulo or Bogota, Etc. These spatial processes have followed a widely known practice of consolidating a sequence of transformations, short-term strategies for long-term value production. Neighborhoods are re-evaluated through investment often initiated by art, popular culture, local participation, and place-branding. Urban- and Landscape Design can create a measurable impact in cities by increasing social justice, health, and wellbeing. The development of robust frameworks adaptable to change enable processes for regeneration with long-term operational, environmental and social benefits in response to global, local, and site-specific challenges. The role of architects is to imagine and model sustainable urban scenarios recognizing urban corridors as new possibilities and lifelines to impact meaningful and multidimensional transformative design strategies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | “Method-design”: Systematically engaging students in the Studio topic, to unlock their potential and skills towards developing prototypical design resolution on an urban and architectural scale. Identifying, understanding and developing local stakeholder networks, so as to translate challenges into opportunities and negotiate diverse interests into strategic ideas for development, geo-references, inter-linked systems, diagrams and maps. Develop design concepts for urban prototypes on different scales, framed by a narrative of a process that is consequentially visualized and communicated in analog as well as digital tools. Investigative Analysis/ Local Perspective: Registering the existing; prioritizing challenges and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative information; mapping on different design scales and periods of time; configuring stakeholder groups; connecting top-down and bottom-up initiatives; idea mapping and concept mapping; designing of citizen scenarios. “Project Design”: Synthesizing between different scenarios and definition of a thesis and program between beneficiaries and stakeholders; projecting process presentation as a narrative embedded in multiple steps; describing an urban and architectural typology and prototypes; defining an urban paradigm. “Domain Shift”: Shifting and translating different domains; testing and evaluating the design in feedback loops; including the project in the Urban Toolbox. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Reading material will be provided throughout the semester, as well as references to case studies. The class material can be downloaded from the student server. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Team: Prof. Hubert Klumpner Anne Graupner Diogo Figueiredo In collaboration with: UNSA | Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo IPDS | Institute for Planning of Development Canton Sarajevo Prof. Adnan Pašić, Assoc. Prof.Dr. Aida Idrizbegović Zgonić, Prof. Dr. Gordana Mimisevič, Prof. Dr. Pavle Krstić UTPS | Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo Dr. Michael Walczak, Bojana Papic, Victoria Soto Magán Skills: Drawing & Representation | Michael Walczak and Melanie Fessel Introduction to Graphic Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Graphic Design | Integral Designers, Ruedi and Vera Baur Elective Course | ‘ACTION! Beautiful Data - The Filmic Art of Numbers’ is offered to complete the skillset of the studio, teaching in 3D modelling, filmmaking, and animating. Organization: Architectural Design V-IX | ECTS Credits - 14 Integrated Discipline Planning | ECTS Credits – 3 Work: Group work during research / Individual project design Language: German, English, Spanish and Portuguese Location: ONA, E25 Participants: max. 18 students All inquiries can be directed to Diogo Figueiredo: figueiredo@arch.ethz.ch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 064-0017-21L | Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies | 2 credits | 2K | G. Vogt, H. Klumpner, F. Persyn, C. Schmid, M. Topalovic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Advanced PhD candidates of urban studies, urban and landscape design and urban sociology report about their experiences and insights in the concrete application of methods utilized for their research and scientific publications. Discussion of ongoing individual work, methodological questions, critical perspectives on urban and landscape design and city's relation to society. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | The seminar seeks to provide participants with a differentiated knowledge of methods in the field of the urbanism. Furthermore, it provides a platform to exchange contemporary urban research experiences across disciplinary boundaries, drawing from different geographies of knowledge production. Possible meta-themes include modes of data assessment in urban studies, ways of progressing from hypothesis to synthesis, and research by design as method. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The format will provide an overarching methodological meta-theme, to be defined prior to the event. One external guest critic will be invited. In this case, each presentation will conclude with a discussion round, providing sufficiently detailed feedback for every doctoral candidate. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The seminar is joint-organized by the chairs of the professors H. Klumpner, Ch. Girot, G. Vogt and M. Angélil (who in HS18 is mainly responsible for the course (one full-day event in the academic semester). Participants in both cases will be expected to submit single-page abstracts of their papers in advance and to make a presentation of app. 20 minutes at the colloquium. The discussion rounds will be moderated by the organizing professor and the invited guests. Enrolment on agreement with the lecturer only. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||