Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Fieldtrip
Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish,
Teaching staff
From Monday to Friday from 10 to 17h
Introduction
This workshop intends to delve into pending issues related to the Master such as informal settlement upgrading, urban reconstruction post-disaster, urban integration of internally displaced people and refugees. We believe the integration and spatial regeneration must start at an urban scale as it is necessary to consider local communities and solutions to all these urban stressors within the overall urban planning of cities. Fostering this goal, the present practical workshop intends to work on specific problems in an international setting, on an existing project along with all the stakeholders involved (local govenment, NGOs, local univiersites) in order to develop and implement a technical methodology which delves into the link between the social and physical aspects of any urban or architectural problem.
Pre-course requirements
Be part of the Master and have attended all courses and modules before the Fieldtrip
Objectives
Our objective is to develop an integrated (from void to urban fabric) and social diagnosis in order to deliver specific regenerative proposals of the site. Through our participation in a real project, we intend to put our expertise and the tools and methods aquired during the masters in practice. The Fieldtrip is always linked to a real need and project, therefore our contribution is part of a longer process with the objetctive of creating knowledge-transfer to the local community and at the same time creating an applied and service learning.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 - That students apply the knowledge acquired and the capacity to solve problems in underpriviledged places in multidisciplinary contexts related to the area of international cooperation.
- 02 - That students may be capble of integrating knowledge and face the complexity of formulating their opinion from information which may be incomplete or limited, and that include reflections on the ethic and social responsibilities related to the area of cooperation and arquitecture in post disaster situations.
- 03 - That students may capable of communicating the conslusions of their research as well as the knowledge and resasons that support it, to a specialized and non-specialized public, with clarity and security.
- 06 - Aquire a specialized knowledge in the management of materials and human resources for each project development
- 07 - Be capable of aplying to a specific project the knowledge acquired.
- 19 - To propose and develop constructive techniques based on local cultures and materials
- 21 - Saber aplicar los conocimientos en técnicas constructivas low-cost, fundamentales y universales, aplicables a todos aquellos países en fase de desarrollo o afectados por catástrofes naturales y humanas.
- 22 - To know how to adapt construction materials in order to develop alternative, sustainable, and low-cost construction techniques
- 26 - To be capable of developing, through a critical analysis, a manual that defines from a systemic point of view the priority of intervention for projects developed by international cooperation agencies.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The outcome of the workshop is to enable students to learn how to:
- perform effectively in a team situation
- develop appropriate written and oral communication skills for addressing community members’ concerns
- work with urban and architectural methodologies/tools to target different needs felt by diverse social groups, and apply practical skills and knowledge learned elsewhere in the curriculum
- Learn to act ethically while maintaining a balance between independent and critical professional work and responsiveness to the partners in the project
- Build the capacity of the community members to carry out small and strategic open space and architectural betterment projects.
- Ensure that all work developed respects and responds to ongoing urban betterment initiatives
- Develop and work on site on a specific betterment action in order to contribute to the urban betterment and integration of the community of the area of study.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
METHODOLOGY
The methodological process will follow three steps:
STEP 1 INITIAL PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT ONSITE: identify what conditions should be reinforced and bettered after reviewing the plans developed by the local and partner institutions, and visit the intervention site.
STEP 2 SOCIAL APPROACHES
Incorporate the results and recommendations already developed by the local institutions and collaborators regarding the community’s perception with respect to housing, open spaces and socioeconomic conditions of the area. Conduct semi-structured interviews, surveys and other qualitative methods with local stakeholders and existing NGO’s as well as locals and refugees of the area to identify their needs and perceptions of the site.
STEP 3 SOCIO-SPATIAL INTEGRATION OF THE DATA COLLECTED AND STRATEGIC PROPOSALS
Assess the information regarding each topic in order to develop specific proposals which bridge the physical and socially based findings. The proposals must explain how they intend to be implemented and developed (stakeholders and actors involved, phases, budgeting ideas, etc.) as well as which are the limitations and reflections.
STEP 4 JOINT SMALL SCALE URBAN ACTION
A small scale open space intervention (to be determined and discussed between all participants) will be developed on site with all the groups in order to contribute with our work to the betterment of the site.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Each student will be evaluated by their work in the following aspects:
PROCESS
- RESULTS AND FINDINGS of the data recollection: graphs, etc
METHODOLOGY AND PROPOSALS
- EVALUATION OF THE PROCESS AND FINDINGS
- STRATEGY AND PROPOSALS
- PHASES OF IMPLEMENTATION AND BUDGET
- CONCLUSIONS AND BETTERMENT
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