ACTION! On the Real City: Campus on Film: Sensory Ethnography of Educational Spaces
Keine Lehrveranstaltung am 18.3.19 (Seminarwoche), 22.4. (Osterferien, 8.4. (Sechseläuten), 1.5. (Tag der Arbeit) sowie 20. und 27.5.(vor Schlussabgaben).
The course develops new forms of urban literacy in learning from the complex, real-life city. Jumping into the world of creative geography, students will experiment in unconventional audiovisual mapmaking guided by qualitative research methods like sensory ethnography.
Learning objective
The course aims to use diverse qualitative research methods and practical recording tools to interrogate the notions of place-making, map-making, and socio-spatial navigation through a multi-disciplinary lens including urbanism, social research and media use.
Through a combination of practical exercises in video and audio techniques in parallel with the study of seminal observation-driven texts like ‘Cross-Cultural Filmmaking’ (Barbash, Castaing-Taylor) and ‘Acoustic Territories’ (LaBelle), 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 emerging field of creative geography, inviting students to challenge conventional notions of what ‘maps’ are and how they may be read, through experimentation with new audiovisual perspectives on urban cartography.
The students will select an area of study from numerous field sites presented during the course. Using widely available recording tools and editing software, students will turn their "thick" readings of space into short video or audio works of about 3-5 minutes. These outputs will collectively form an almanac of emerging forms of mapmaking and socio-spatial navigational tools.
Content
The course will compose of lectures, practical crash courses in media use, 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.
Performance assessment as a semester course
: Special students and auditors need a special permission from the lecturers