Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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What if? Reimagining education & the campus of the future
6.0 ECTS
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What if? Reimagining education & the campus of the future
"(LO1) Critically reflect on the challenges of education in the future, questioning existing paradigms and exploring new pedagogical approaches;
(LO2) Investigate how radical and utopian imagination can reshape spatial, social, and educational models, promoting innovative and sustainable solutions;
(LO3) Integrate knowledge from different fields, such as Literature, Arts & Media, Architecture, Landscape, Photography, and Visual Arts, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration;
(LO4) Apply practical methodologies to develop experimental and creative proposals, encouraging a speculative and provocative approach;
(LO5) Explore the University Campus as an experimental laboratory to test and propose new models of community interaction;
(LO6) Address emerging challenges in architecture and urbanism, promoting adaptable and innovative solutions."
"Online Session – Pre-Workshop Activities
Opening and team introduction
Collaborative learning and Q&A session
On-Site Activities (BIP)
1st Masterclass: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
Lecture 1: Commons
Lecture 2: Transdisciplinarity
Workshop 1 – ROLEPLAYING
Roundtable 1 & Work Lab 1
2nd Masterclass: Radical and Utopian Imagination
Lecture 3: Education
Lecture 4: Literature
Lecture 5: Arts & Media
Workshop 2 – STORYTELLING
Roundtable 2 & Work Lab 2
3rd Masterclass: The Campus as an Ecosystem
Lecture 6: Architecture
Lecture 7: Landscape
Lecture 8: Photography
Workshop 3 – IMAGE(NING)
Field Visit
Laboratory: Creating an Intervention
Lecture 10: Creativity
Lecture 11: Visual Arts & Comic Strip
Workshop 4 – (PRO)TESTING
Laboratory: Intervening in the Field
Work Lab – Collective Installation
Final Presentation
Online Session – Post-Workshop Activities
Critical reflection on the results"
"(PA1) Given the highly practical nature of this unit, assessment is conducted exclusively through a continuous evaluation system throughout the semester. This requires a minimum attendance of 70% in classes, periodic discussions of the exercises, and a final presentation to a panel of lecturers. The final grade is determined as follows: 70% for the exercise, 10% for class participation, and 20% for the final presentation (mandatory);
(PA2) The unit does not include a final exam in its assessment system."
"Coleman, N. (2005). Utopias and architecture. Routledge Colomina, B., Galán, I. G., Kotsioris, E., & Meister, A.-M. (Eds.). (2022). Radical pedagogies. The MIT Press Fitz, A. & Krasny, E., (Eds.). (2019). Critical care: Architecture and urbanism for a broken planet. MIT Press Harriss, H., & Froud, D. (Eds.). (2015). Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and the British Tradition. RIBA Publishing Culek, J. (2020). ""Utopia as a Critical Method."" Archined Gadanho, P. (2015). ""Back to Life, Back to Reality: The 'New Normal.'"" Shrapnel Contemporary Jedenov, K., & Afonso, F. (2017). ""Crisis as the New Normal: Preparing Architecture Students for Uncertainty in Social, Economic and Ecological Dynamics."" Charrette, 4(1), 40-57 Kasperzyk, D. (1991).""Pragmatic Utopias: Planning With Nature."" Living Together. Sustainable Community Development, 29, 44 Waterman, T. (2016).""Utopian Method for Minds, Bodies, and Media in Architectural Design"". Open Library of Humanities, 2(2), 1–29"