Worlding Theories and Concepts

Worlding and worlding practices, in their inherent pluriversality, call for a general reinterpretation of built and lived environments and related cultural and spatial practices, architecture included.

With this in mind, this course focuses on architecture as a material-discursive practice and a technique of environmental design that engages in the purposeful transformation of the world.

It familiarizes students with a set of key theoretical concepts from recent discourses in architecture and urban/environmental design, as well as attendant (environmental, social, cultural, philosophical, technological, economic) discursive streams to understand and engage with wording dynamics.

The general aim of the course is to establish a conceptual basis around both, canonical and newly emerging concepts and theories, and foster an intellectual sensibility for their critical and creative (analytical/methodic) use within architectural research and design.

To demonstrate their understanding of different theories and concepts, students will write a series of short entries to a collective Glossary.