PLSD
2017
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Spring 2012
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Faculty:
Matthew Bissen
Who makes space? Does space consist only of designed artifacts? What role does collective imagination play in the way we perceive spaces? How can you as a user, activist, artist or designer participate in the shaping of spaces that matter: the design of your local library, the revitalization of public spaces, the planning of a refugee camp? This class will ask such questions emphasizing the intertwined notions of production, consumption, appropriation and imagination in local and global spatial politics. Addressing multiple spatial scales from those of interior and architecture to urban and wider geographical spaces, the course will scrutinize the role of various stakeholders in processes of spatial production and use: politicians, planners, architects, designers, residents, tourists, marketers, journalists and activists. The course will emphasize spatial issues that emerge in the process of globalization, particularly as they are shaped by conditions of intense demographic mobility, global media, environmental degradation, and weakening of the nation-state on one hand, but also a rise in trans-national and activist initiatives that aim at counterbalancing the effect of top-down strategies and acts. Pathway: Spatial Design Studies
