During Seminar Week, students will travel to Shenzhen, (China) as an extension of the OPEN VILLAGE design studio. This trip will serve as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, and social exchange in Southern China, with a specific emphasis on high density urban villages. Students will take part in a series of lectures and site tours guided by local experts in architecture, city planning, and history.

The seminar trip aims to enable students an experience of extreme and more exotic conditions of urban concentration. This experience will potentially allow students to develop potent translations of urban villages into mixed-use low-income communities for more familiar environments such as Zurich and central Europe in general. In order to enrich the contextual understanding of the phenomenon of urban villages students will also visit urban locations in Hong Kong and its immediate region.

During Seminar Week, students will travel to Athens as an integral part of the REACTIVATE ATHENS design studio. This trip will be an opportunity to advance research and understand the city and the site; it will be an opportunity to expand analysis, challenge conventional understandings, and test conceptual prototypes. This week will not only serve as a vital step in the conceptual development of the project theses, but also as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, social exchange, and mobility in Athens.

Reactivate Athens Fieldtrip

Teaching

During Seminar Week, students will travel to RIO DE JANEIRO as an integral part of the MOBILIZE BRAZIL design studio. This trip will be an opportunity to advance research and understand the city and the site; it will be an opportunity to expand analysis, challenge conventional understandings, and test conceptual prototypes. This week will not only serve as a vital step in the conceptual development of the project theses, but also as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, social exchange, and mobility in Rio de Janeiro.

During Seminar Week, students will travel to PORT OF SPAIN as an integral part of the EMERGING & SUSTAINABLE CITIES design studio. This trip will be an opportunity to advance research and understand the city and the site; it will be an opportunity to expand analysis, challenge conventional understandings, and test conceptual prototypes. This week will not only serve as a vital step in the conceptual development of the project theses, but also as a critical study of the architecture, urbanism, culture, social exchange, and mobility in Port of Spain.

Kostenrahmen	F
Location	Shenzhen, China
Team	Prof. Alfredo Brillembourg & Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Gianmaria Socci, Arnd Bätzner

Urban Villages