Program Overview
Program Overview
A new urban design revolution is underway that seeks sustainable modes of city living. Eco-urban solutions forged by pioneers at the intersection of technology and urbanism offer radical solutions to our extreme global predicament of global warming, environmental degradation, and exploding populations. During this seminar, we’ll investigate the future of cities: the ways in which they may live and grow or decline and die. Specifically, we’ll explore how Czech and German urban designers and architects—thought leaders and doers—aim to (re)make efficient, healthy, self-sufficient, post-post-industrial cities and meet the challenges of today while modeling a new metropolis.
Program Activities
Program Activities
A combination of lectures, group discussions, workshops, studio visits, and guided urban tours will facilitate participants’ theoretical and practical engagement with the theme of building future cities.
Program Objectives
Program Objectives
During this seminar, participants will:
- Develop an understanding of the practice of sustainable architecture and design within an emerging global context.
- Gain insight into the latest technologies aimed at mitigating the detrimental effects of urban impacts such as recycled energy, efficient lighting, new natural materials, wind and bio-mass harnessing, and eco-political coordination.
- Encounter and engage in discussion with important players and thought leaders in the urban design field.
- Explore relevant urban planning precedents as well as their successes and failures.
- Analyze the realignment of disciplines taking place to address future urban concerns.
- Compare and contrast emerging approaches to “the Mega City,” “the Instant City,” “the Slum City” and “the Disappearing City.”
Seminar Locations
Seminar Locations
Based in Prague, Czech Republic, and Berlin, Germany; participants can either fly into Prague and out of Berlin or purchase roundtrip flights in and out of Prague and return to Prague from Berlin independently by train after completion of the seminar.