This Summer School develops an analytical and applied perspective on the urban environment as a set of infrastructures to generate, maintain and spread knowledge about the human and natural worlds. It is in this way that the school responds to the ‘infrastructural turn’ in urbanism, by investigating the development of the digital layer in addition to already existing materialities of public and private lives in cities. This new factor of the digital layer has provoked an important broad reflection regarding how cities’ hardware is negotiated economically and socially among its developers and users on how its implementation is dependent on political cultures, and on how technological innovations encounter institutional traditions.
Learning outcomes:
- Refined conceptual and design work in real life institutional, cultural and material situations;
- The development of a concept for the Visaginas town museum in cooperation with local government and other urban development institutions;
- A block of lectures on Soviet ‘nuclear’ towns as a particular mode of urbanization;
- A block of lectures on the memory politics and memory infrastructures in urban development and planning.
NB! To apply, please fill in the application form before May 31.
- 800 euros for DAAD stipend holders (8 DAAD scholarships are available for Bachelor and Master students of German Universities);
- 450 euros for all the rest;
- In case of a lockdown, the Summer School will take place online (on August 17 – 28, with course materials distributed in late July). The online participation fee would be 300 euros.
The language of the workshop is English.
In case you have any questions about the Summer School, please contact us via the e-mail urbanism@ehu.lt. All detailed information about the Summer School is available on its webpage.
The school is organized in cooperation with Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture.