Co-creating Urban Futures
Roundtables: There will be a series of four online roundtable discussions in October, November and December. The main goal of the roundtables is to establish a common ground for the course, as this is an interdisciplinary course including architecture, planning, urban studies, political science, and law. All sessions include groupwork and discussions with students. Time: 1700-1900 CET Thursday 20 October: In the first session, the main aims and objectives of the course will be introduced and discussed with the students. Thursday 27 October: In the second session, teaching staff from the participating universities will present their perspectives on “global urban challenges”. Thursday 3 November: The third session is dedicated to the main concepts of “co-creation”, their normative foundations and role within politics. Thursday 17 November: The fourth session aims at establishing the interrelatedness of “power, planning and policy making”. Thursday 8 December: This final seesion offfers a review and summarizes the results of the onsite course and considers way to fill the online repository with content. The module develops comparative and interdisciplinary knowledge of co-creation in local government and examines its potential to address urban challenges in diverse contexts.
Application Deadline
Virtual Part starting date
2022-10-17
Virtual Part closing date
2023-01-13
Total student workload
90
Specific field of studies
No
Pre-requisite for selection
CV
Motivation Letter
Academic pre-requisites for applicants
Bachelor qualification in related field e.g. urban studies, urban design, architecture, geography, sociology, political science.
Physical Part starting date
2022-11-23
Physical Part Description
On-Site Learning in Brussels: Teaching staff and students come together in the city of Brussels to learn together. The five days of intensive learning experiences focus on the transfer of theoretical approaches to co-creation into more practical exercises, applications, and discussions. Teaching staff will give teaching input and lead smaller working groups dedicated to deepen the learning experiences. These include: a) drawing lessons from interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and to problematize them in terms of practicability, b) experimenting with existing tools and techniques for organizing participatory problem solving, c) conducting interviews with participants of co-creation projects to gather insight in their experiences and to identify strengths and shortcomings of such collaborative processes, d) meeting stakeholders from governments, administrations and civil society, and learn about their interests, needs, and recommendations for co-creating urban futures, e) participating in excursions to ‘best’ and ‘worst’ practice examples.
Physical Part closing date
2022-11-27
Language level required
B2
Field of studies related to the course
Social Science and Humanities
Environmental Sciences Urbanism and Geography
Course location
Brussels
Course language
English