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078-0200-00L 2 Credits NDS D-ARCH

Prefigurative Ecologies: Struggles, Commons and the Terrestrial Condition of Justice (EPFL)

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Abstract

This course explores how contemporary socio-ecological struggles are not only sites of resistance to extractivism, but also spaces where alternative ways of inhabiting the Earth are actively prefigured. Moving across urban contexts and forest territories, it examines how commons, mobilisations and everyday practices reconfigure relationships between humans and non-humans.

Objective

The course aims to understand the political and social conditions of urban struggles to explore the levers of action available to professionals to support the critical emergence of renewed urban models. Taking the form of a course-seminar, the proposed teaching aims to show the interest of methodologies from the social sciences of the city to develop critical urban and territorial design.

Content

Seminars, methodological teaching sessions and applied exercises.

General Information

Language
English
Levels
NDS
Frequency
Yearly recurring

Examination

Type
ungraded semester performance
Registration modalities, date and venue of this performance assessment are specified solely by the EPFL.

Registration & Places

Priority: Registration for the course unit is only possible for the primary target group

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
lecture with exercise Prefigurative Ecologies: Struggles, Commons and the Terrestrial Condition of Justice (EPFL)
**Course at EPFL**
No time listed 45 h semesterly

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