This course explores how theoretical frameworks from other disciplines – addressing issues of race, feminism, cyberspace, and public fear – entered architectural discourse in the 1990s and challenged architects to critically reassess the foundations, premises, and character of architecture.

This course examines how pressing societal challenges – including segregation, migration, gender inequality, extraction, waste, food systems, and digitalisation – are redefining urban discourse. It invites students to question their preconceptions about cities and urban design and to critically reflect on their role as socially engaged city-makers.

This course foregrounds non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in the history and theory of urban design. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

This course foregrounds non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in the history and theory of urban design. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.