4.303 Dialogues in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism: THIS IS TOMORROW Urban Utopia -Dystopia - Heterotopia (Fall only)
This seminar engages dialogue in architecture and urbanism from the perspective of the artistic field. "This is Tomorrow" - shown 1956 in London's Whitechapel Gallery - was a path breaking transdisciplinary exhibition involving key artists and architects, musicians and designers, which evaluated "habitation" through the human senses. Fifty years later, how do we imagine future co-habitation, alternative communities and societies to come? Reviewing the notion of Urban Utopia, Dystopia and Heterotopia, researching and investigating examples will be the point of departure for direct research and group-based practice. Readings and discussions, a weekly lecture series and a direct collaboration with the FEMA trailer project (course 4.365) will inform the work of student group formations to envision "a tomorrow" in the format of an exhibition.
Fall 2008
Instructors: Ute Meta Bauer, Yvonne P. Doderer
Meets Mon 12:30-3:30P
Room N51-315, N51-348
Mon 7:00-9:00P, Room N51-337
Graduate Level Subject
Prereq: --
Units: 3-3-3
blogs:
http://urbanutopias.mit.edu/
http://www.zonesofemergency.net/
