(Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture Q2

Designing is imagining the future. In a time of climate change and multiple transitions, a "designerly" attitude is needed more than ever. At the same time, understanding past practices and sociocultural conditions is an essential basis for new interventions.

In this minor, the phenomenon of port cities is studied from cultural, social and historical perspectives. Research studies of the city's past and present are conducted to learn about the city. And interventions are designed, ideas conceived and tested to make the city future-proof. To learn to think like a designer, the basic skills of the design process are made explicit as much as possible.

The focus in this quarter (BK 7941) is on the city as a whole and in a larger - historical, socio-cultural, economic - context.

It is a continuation of the first quarter (BK 7940), where the focus was on understanding space in the port city, and more specifically people in the city, at the waterfront.

The assessment is based on the result of the research and design studies. The results are presented with text and visualizations, such as images, photographs, diagrams, sketches and models.

Essential in assessment are significance, coherence, correctness and elaboration of the project.

Repair

The design project is awarded a grade that is a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0. Students pass the course with a 6.0 or higher. With a grade below 6.0: students who presented assessable work during the course are allowed to do a repair to change the grade into a ‘pass’. The repair is unsupervised and needs to be completed within 2 weeks after the end of the course. When the repair is unsuccessful, the student needs to follow the entire course again.