Hubert Klumpner: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2023 |
| Name | Prof. Hubert Klumpner |
| Field | Architecture and Urban Design |
| Address | Professur Architekt. u. Städtebau ETH Zürich, ONA J 14 Neunbrunnenstr. 50 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 633 90 78 |
| Fax | +41 44 633 11 83 |
| klumpner@arch.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Architecture |
| Relationship | Full Professor |
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| 052-0708-00L | Urban Design IV  | 2 credits | 2V | H. Klumpner, M. Fessel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Students are introduced to a narrative of 'Urban Stories' through a series of three tools driven by social, governance, and environmental transformations in today's urbanization processes. Each lecture explores one city's spatial and organizational ingenuity born out of a particular place's realities, allowing students to transfer these inventions into a catalog of conceptual tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | How can students of architecture become active agents of change? What does it take to go beyond a building's scale, making design-relevant decisions to the city rather than a single client? How can we design in cities with a lack of land, tax base, risk, and resilience, understanding that Zurich is the exception and these other cities are the rule? How can we discover, set rather than follow trends and understand existing urban phenomena activating them in a design process? The lecture series produces a growing catalog of operational urban tools across the globe, considering Governance, Social, and Environmental realities. Instead of limited binary comparing of cities, we are building a catalog of change, analyzing what design solutions cities have been developing informally incrementally over time, why, and how. We look at the people, institutions, culture behind the design and make concepts behind these tools visible. Students get first-hand information from cities where the chair as a Team has researched, worked, or constructed projects over the last year, allowing competent, practical insight about the people and topics that make these places unique. Students will be able to use and expand an alternative repertoire of experiences and evidence-based design tools, go to the conceptual core of them, and understand how and to what extent they can be relevant in other places. Urban Stories is the basic practice of architecture and urban design. It introduces a repertoire of urban design instruments to the students to use, test, and start their designs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Urban form cannot be reduced to physical space. Cities result from social construction, under the influence of technologies, ecology, culture, the impact of experts, and accidents. Urban un-concluded processes respond to political interests, economic pressure, cultural inclinations, along with the imagination of architects and urbanists and the informal powers at work in complex adaptive systems. Current urban phenomena are the result of urban evolution. The facts stored in urban environments include contributions from its entire lifecycle, visible in the physical environment, but also for non-physical aspects. This imaginary city exists along with its potentials and problems and with the conflicts that have evolved. Knowledge and understanding, and critical observation of the actions and policies are necessary to understand the diversity and instability present in the contemporary city and understand how urban form evolved to its current state. How did cities develop into the cities we live in now? Urban plans, instruments, visions, political decisions, economic reasonings, cultural inputs, and social organizations have been used to operate in urban settlements in specific moments of change. We have chosen cities that exemplify how these instruments have been implemented and how they have shaped urban environments. We transcribe these instruments into urban operational tools that we have recognized and collected within existing tested cases in contemporary cities across the globe. This lecture series will introduce urban knowledge and the way it has introduced urban models and operational modes within different concrete realities, therefore shaping cities. The lecture series will translate urban knowledge into operational tools extracted from cities where they have been tested and become exemplary samples, most relevant for understanding how the urban landscape has taken shape. The tools are clustered in twelve thematic clusters and three tool scales for better comparability and cross-reflection. The Tool case studies are compiled into a global urbanization toolbox, which we use as typological models to read the city and critically reflect upon it. The presented contents are meant to serve as inspiration for positioning in future professional life and provide instruments for future design decisions. In an interview with a local designer, we measure our insights against the most pressing design topics in cities today, including inclusion, affordable housing, provision of public spaces, and infrastructure for all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | The learning material, available via https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/ is comprised of: - Toolbox 'Reader' with an introduction to the lecture course and tool summaries - Weekly exercise tasks - Infographics with basic information of each city - Quiz question for each tool - Additional reading material - Interviews with experts - Archive of lecture recordings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | - Reading material will be provided throughout the semester. - Please see ‘Skript’, (a digital reader is available). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | "Semesterkurs" (semester course) students from other departments, students taking this lecture as GESS / Studium Generale course, and exchange students must submit a research paper, which will be subject to the performance assessment: "Bestanden" (pass) or "Nicht bestanden" (failed). The performance assessment type for "Urban Design III: Urban Stories" taken as a semester course is categorized as "unbenotete Semesterleistung" (ungraded semester performance). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 052-0726-23L | ACTION! On the Real City: Parkour: Audiovisual Imaginaries of Urban Play  | 2 credits | 2U | H. Klumpner, C. E. Papanicolaou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Layers of diverse design logics determine the built environment, resulting in a heterogenous field of surfaces, materials, and objects. How do they contribute to a sense of play in the city? Students will respond to this questions through short, experimental films that will aim to articulate how cities today may be reimagined and reappropriated by its inhabitants in new and inventive ways. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Through a combination of practical exercises in video and audio techniques in parallel with the study of seminal observation-driven texts like, this course aims to equip students with the basic tools and core principles to create short but complex portraits of urban space. This approach will be applied to the study of the built environment as a field of potential urban play. Through repeat observation, students will collectively create mosaics of their impressions, manifested through film. Using widely available recording tools and editing software, students will turn their fieldwork into short video or audio works of about 3-5 minutes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The course will compose of lectures, practical crash courses in media use and storytelling, and fieldwork sessions. The course will be a laboratory in the creation of short media works that aim to inform the architectural design process, working between the city and the studio in ONA. Students will be expected to complete all required work within the hours that the elective meets, with few requirements outside of the class hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Seminal texts include: - ‘Cross-Cultural Filmmaking’ (Barbash, Castaing-Taylor) - ‘Acoustic Territories’ (LaBelle) - 'Ethnography: Principles in Practice' (Hammersley, Atkinson) - 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture (Geertz) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Language of Instruction: English For students from all disciplines. Software required: Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0728-23L | 4D-Geodesigning Urban Transformation This course is offered the last time in FS23. | 3 credits | 3G | S. Wälty, H. Klumpner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | The project addresses critical issues of urban planning by using cutting-edge technology for analysis and communication. Students actiely engage with building and zoning regulations ((i) reconstruct, (ii) reformulate and (iii)simulate/virtualise in web-based 4D urban models) as well as maintain an ongoing exchange through (peer) review activities in class. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | - Capture and analyse the past and present; and design, present and discuss future living spaces in 4D. - Read, understand, deconstruct and formulare new zoning and building rules (BNO)s. - Set up an ArcGIS Urban model and integrate current and new urban rules and visualize/simulate dvelopment scenarios/variations of uran designs. - Learn from students from different disciplines through teamwork and by peer-reviewing each other's work. - System thinking through causel loops. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | This course addresses the crucial urban transformation issues of our time at the 10-minute-neighbourhood level. Technology, communicaiton and online learning materials are leveraged and opportunities for online interaction are combined with traditional pllace-based teaching methods. The course can be taught as elective with exercise and as an integrated discipline in design classes. In addition, the online material can be used for self-paced learning. (i) Students actively engage with building and land use regulations by reconstruction them in a 3D model, formulating new 3D regulations based on design and land use criteria, and simulating possible developments based on existing building criteria in4D. As students from different disciplines work in teams and share knowledge through mutual work and peer reviews, they can learn from each other across disciplines. (ii) Urban design lecturers can benefit from being relived of the task of teaching students software as part of the design class. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | A time and workload (in addition to the course) of 70 hours is to be expected. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 052-1140-23L | Architectural Design V-IX: Igre i grad_City Games_ Sarajevo (H.Klumpner) Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php). Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 31.3.23, 24:00 h. This is the ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio! | 14 credits | 16U | H. Klumpner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | How can we as architects re-imagine Sarajevo– 40 years delayed development – as a space of freedom designing a Re-generative Olympic Legacy? How can we engage the city's Olympic Spirit as a transformative force and question existing programs, resources, and imperfections? How can we propose urban models for a sustainable future and co-design citizens' ideas mending top down and bottom up? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Students will be introduced to tools and immerse in our Chair’s “method-design” to step by step develop their individual prototypical design projects by: 1.) Base-Line: We design in a continuum of architectural, urban, and planning scales, and collaboratively develop a basis of how the city is now. 2.) Mapping: By identifying existing and future challenges and opportunities, we take the role of stakeholders and visualize our demands and resources into three different simulation scenarios. 3.) Concept Design: We develop an urbanistic synthesis and translate a concept into an evidence-based prototypical architectural project- intervention. 4.) Prototype Design: We present the synthesis of our process in time and space on different scales. We frame the design projects as a narrative, consequentially developed and communicated in analog and digital graphic representations. 5.) Upscaling: We test our project concepts and upscale prototypes through design-policy recommendations to make them transferable and situated in Sarajevo and other cities. The basic thesis for this Studio is designing urban imaginaries, to open up a free space for the delayed Olympic Legacy and make it happen. We engage with Sarajevo, interlink urban memories with future visions, and re-activate collective action. Starting from the urban -in-between, the studio redefines the Olympics to build the city's future, designing inclusivity, and prototypical interventions, that are scalable, transferable, and playful, as a radical continuation of architectural design redefining the Olympic Games beyond sports. The adaptive re-use and integration of remaining former Olympic infrastructures and symbolic sites can re-activate the Olympic legacy of transforming the existing and adding new structures to regenerate the city. Topics such as district design, heat reduction, green and blue infrastructure, water retention, densification and dedensification are addressed alongside atmospheric contamination. Fine dust, and CO2 have created during inversion weather one of the highest air contamination levels of any capital city in Europe compromising the health of Sarajevo’s people. Climate change is challenging necessary processes to re-planting the forest and trees of the city. The compliance with the targets and indicators of the SDGs pose considerable additional tasks to solve. In recent years, the bust and boom cycle in Sarajevo has put doubt on international urban upgrading models linked with opportunistic investments, gentrification, and short-term gains for private investors. The Studio will be engaging with a multistakeholder team of experts from Sarajevo and Zürich. The Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS) is developed between the Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Laboratory of Energy Conversion, ETH Zurich spin-off SwissAI, University of Sarajevo and Canton Sarajevo Institute of Planning and Development. The overarching key component of the project is the elaboration of the Urban Plan for Sarajevo until the year 2040. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Students will re-imagining the 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games and the conflicts the city endured in the 1990ties urbicide(1). Both events still activate the collective memory and contemporary imaginary in Sarajevo as moments of blood, tears, and sweat*. (2) The spectacle of the games accounted for the concentration of the events happening at a distance of fewer than 25 km around the city, making Sarajevo a total urban experience. Re-imagining the Olympics to build a city's future and the role for placemaking of contemporary architecture, urbanism, and culture. What if after the games is before the next games? The reimagines a new Olympic legacy at the intersection of homegrown turbo architecture*(3). It raises the issue of the resources of the games on different scales and disciplines for the entire city, opening up a discussion on constructing new frontiers of re-activating, re-imagining, and re-constructing what is already there. The fundamental questions of any large-scale event placinga city or an entire country on the world map, from the Olympic Games, Soccer World Cups, or world exhibitions, question to what extent; the event should be seen as temporary, or in what way architecture designs extend to something more permanent. This thinking includes existing, new buildings and infrastructure. Durability becomes a concept that questions circularity, reuse, and resources, metaphorically and practically, enhancing the city profile. How are the costs, benefits, and ownership distributed to the citizens and the urban development, commercialization, and media of events? Site, material, and stakeholder analysis of urban spaces and Olympic infrastructures, are design informants for the architecture and urban design processes, to transform this torn-city and re-wildered landscape into alternate active spaces of engagement in harmony with the environment. The design studio focuses on the transformative redevelopment of the city on three scales and sites: A_ General Urban Plan (GUP) Scale: 1:10.000 Ilidza, New City Center Sarajevo as a whole, mobility systems, energy, urban expansion, water protection, geothermie, Sport Stadion B_Regulatory Plan (RP) Scale: 1:1000 Novi Grad/ Transversale 6, Climate Corridor of the Miljacka River, new cable Cars, and alternative mobility solutions for Hillside settlements, Hum and Zuć mountains C_Architectural Prototype (AP) Scale: 1:500, 1:200 Novo Sarajevo. Public space, University Campus, Culture and Sports real-world project-sites of delayed reconstruction and retrofitting extending and building new infrastructures. We have developed a toolbox in our Urban Stories lecture series allowing internationally recognized development examples. Understanding permanent and temporary strategies such as Olympic sites in Athens, destruction and re-construction in Berlin, Chengyecheon River Park, Seoul, Isarpark, Schlachthof / Munich, Corredores Verdes / Medellin or Cali, communal target-plan Zurich, Closed Highways in Sao Paulo or Bogota, Etc. These spatial processes have followed a widely known practice of consolidating a sequence of transformations, short-term strategies for long-term value production. Neighborhoods are re-evaluated through investment often initiated by art, popular culture, local participation, and place-branding. Urban- and Landscape Design can create a measurable impact in cities by increasing social justice, health, and wellbeing. The development of robust frameworks adaptable to change enable processes for regeneration with long-term operational, environmental and social benefits in response to global, local, and site-specific challenges. The role of architects is to imagine and model sustainable urban scenarios recognizing new possibilities, to create multidimensional transformative design strategies with long-term benefits for people and cities. 1.) Bogdan Bogdanovic 2.) Winston Churchill 3) Sridjan Jovanovic Weiss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | “Method-design”: Systematically engaging students in the Studio topic, to unlock their potential and skills towards developing prototypical design resolution on an urban and architectural scale. Identifying, understanding and developing local stakeholder networks, so as to translate challenges into opportunities and negotiate diverse interests into strategic ideas for development, geo-references, inter-linked systems, diagrams and maps. Develop design concepts for urban prototypes on different scales, framed by a narrative of a process that is consequentially visualized and communicated in analog as well as digital tools. Investigative Analysis/ Local Perspective: Registering the existing; prioritizing challenges and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative information; mapping on different design scales and periods of time; configuring stakeholder groups; connecting top-down and bottom-up initiatives; idea mapping and concept mapping; designing of citizen scenarios. “Project Design”: Synthesizing between different scenarios and definition of a thesis and program between beneficiaries and stakeholders; projecting process presentation as a narrative embedded in multiple steps; describing an urban and architectural typology and prototypes; defining an urban paradigm. “Domain Shift”: Shifting and translating different domains; testing and evaluating the design in feedback loops; including the project in the Urban Toolbox. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Reading, research material and reading references /case studies will be provided throughout the semester. Access to the Chair`s student server will be given upon final registration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Team: Prof. Hubert Klumpner Anne Graupner Diogo Figueiredo UTPS | Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo, Dr. Michael Walczak, Dr. Marco Pagani In collaboration with: IPDCS | Institute for Planning of Development Canton Sarajevo Dr. Nataša Pelja-Tabori, Vedad Viteškić and Edin Jenčiragić UNSA | Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo Prof. Dr. Adnan Pašić, Assoc. Prof.Dr. Aida Idrizbegović Zgonić, Jasmin Sirćo, Dr. Dženis Avdić, Melika Konjičanin, Tarik Delić Istanbul Technical University Prof. Dr. Birgul Çolakoglu Skills: Drawing & Representation | Michael Walczak and Melanie Fessel Introduction to Digital Tools: Enerpol, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Graphic Design | Integral Designers, Ruedi and Vera Baur Elective Course | ‘ACTION! On the Real city - Parkour: Audiovisual Imaginaries of Urban Play’I is offered to complete the skillset of the studio, teaching in 3D modelling, filmmaking, and animating. Organization: Architectural Design V-IX | ECTS Credits - 14 Integrated Discipline Planning | ECTS Credits – 3 Work: Group work during research / Individual project design Language: German, English, Spanish and Portuguese Location: ONA, E25 Introduction: 21.02.2023, 8h15, Zurich HB (Innsbruck study trip) Intermediate crits: 04/05.04.2023 Final crits: 31.05.2023 Participants: max. 24 students All inquiries can be directed to Diogo Figueiredo: figueiredo@arch.ethz.ch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 064-0018-23L | Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene | 3 credits | 2K | F. Persyn, T. Avermaete, T. Galí-Izard, H. Klumpner, C. Schmid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Anthropocene has emerged as a contested yet transdisciplinary term to describe the planetary condition under climate change and environmental catastrophe. While being attendant to its critiques, the Anthropocene discourse provides researchers from critical landscape and urban research to engage with a diversity of fields such as earth sciences, art, environmental humanities, agrarian, literary, and cultural studies. This course addresses the specificity of writing about the urban, landscape, and territory in the Anthropocene. The seminar surveys key writings, ideas, and figures in the Anthropocene debate in conversation with critiques from environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. A number of invited guests working at the forefronts of Anthropocene research will bring seminar participants into their research and writing process. Additionally, the seminar will offer a number of hands-on critical writing and peer-review sessions to help the seminar participants develop and work with the allegories of the Anthropocene. Typically, the seminar sessions will alternate between inputs by invited guests, reading and discussion sessions, tutorials, and peer-review. The invited guests will provide a behind-the-scenes look into their writing process, including how they structure their arguments, organise their sources and materials, and find inspiration in their writing process. During the first half of the tutorial sessions, the seminar participants will discuss and debate a requisite reading followed by a writing tutorial and feedback session based on the texts. The seminar participants can choose to present the work developed during the seminar at the LUS Doctoral Crits organised at the end of the semester. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The seminar would be organised the following sessions and will culminate with LUS Doctoral Crits organised at the end of the semester: 24.02 Introduction – Writing in the Anthropocene - Nitin Bathla 03.03 Botanical City - Sandra Jasper 10.03 Histories of Settlement workshop - Hollyamber Kennedy & Anooradha Siddiqi 17.03 Landscapes in deep time: Nuclear Waste and the Swiss Alps - Rony Emmenegger 31.03 Landscapes of the empire - Hollyamber Kennedy 21.04 Territories of Swiss Colonialism - Denise Bertschi 28.04 A guided walk through the multispecies landscape of Zurich- Flurina Gardin 05.05 Geological Filmmaking - Laura Coppens 12.05 Landscapes of fossil capitalism - Giulia Scotto 19.05 LUS Doctoral Crits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Voie, Christian Hummelsund. "Nature writing in the Anthropocene." In Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication, pp. 199-210. Routledge, 2019. Boes, Tobias, and Kate Marshall. "Writing the AnthropoceneAn Introduction." the minnesota review 2014, no. 83 (2014): 60-72. Gandy, Matthew, and Sandra Jasper, eds. The botanical city. Jovis Berlin, 2020. Kennedy, Hollyamber. "Infrastructures of “legitimate violence”: The Prussian Settlement Commission, internal colonization, and the migrant remainder." Grey Room 76 (2019): 58-97. Emmenegger, Rony. "Deep Time Horizons: Vincent Ialenti’s Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press." Anthropocenes–Human, Inhuman, Posthuman 2, no. 1 (2021). Grommen, Ciel, Denise Bertschi, Tali Serruya, Karim Bel Kacem, Carol Joo Lee, Yeji Lee, and Seyoung Yoon. "Territories of Assembly." In Artsonje Art Centre, Seoul. 2014. Litvintseva, S., 2018. Geological Filmmaking: Seeing Geology Through Film and Film Through Geology. Transformations. Scotto, Giulia. "Between Visible and Invisible: ENI and the Building of the African Petroleumscape." In Oil Spaces, pp. 84-108. Routledge, 2021. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The seminar is jointly organized by the coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies, and the I-LUS faculty. The seminar is open to all researchers working at the urban landscape and territorial scale regardless of where they might be in their research provided they are in the process of developing a work of academic writing such as research plan, an article, or a design manifesto. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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