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 Urban Detectives organizes a workshop in Tijuana-San Diego from September 6-22. We kindly invite master and advanced bachelor students to join us for the upcoming summer school Cities without Borders Tijuana - San Diego. If you are interested to deepen your understanding in global forces that shape our built environment, to see the complex interaction of planning frameworks and architectural visions at work, or just want to gain experience in a multicultural environment then send us a short email to request more information.
Cities without Borders 2010
Tijuana – San Diego September 6-22
Facts:
- 2,5 week event
- Several universities involved, Tu/e, TUD (NL), EPFL, IHEID, ETH (CH), UCL (UK)
- Simultaneous parallel workshop with two host universities: Ibero, UCSD
- Balanced program: lectures, seminars, excursions, on-site research
- Public final presentation and workshop certificate
The Cities without Borders workshops delve into the complexities of 21st century megacities. Urban Agglomerations of our times can generate dominant shares of national productions with economic and spatial impressive growth rates. Such resource concentrations translate in the unequal landscapes we know particularly from less regulated cities in the developing world. Urban Planning but also architecture possesses a social responsibility to attempt to close the gap between the world of haves and havenots. We have chosen extreme case studies for further investigations to investigate the possibilities of visionary architectural projects or new planning systems that erode the rigidness of national borders. The Cities without borders are going to take place in Tijuana - San Diego (2010), Hong Kong - Shenzhen (2011), and Brazzaville - Kinshasa (2012).
The first edition of Cities without Borders workshop line is held in September 2010 as joint effort of two host universities, the Universidad Iberoamericano Tijuana and San Diego State University. During 2,5 weeks on-site a group of up to 50 students will work in two parallel workshop teams both sides of the border to relate top down inputs (lectures from various agents, seminars, discussion moments) to bottom-up experiences (site excursions, contact with local representatives, grassroots and NGOs). An elaborate selection of case study locations will allow a thorough investigation of each city but also put one into the context of the other reality beyond the border. With such an approach we hope to generate final products that reflect the workshop ideology as to say being flexible in scale and discipline. Results will be displayed in Tijuana, San Diego, Eindhoven and Lausanne.
Key Figures:
- Application Deadline: on first come first serve basis until 31st July
- Workshop takes place from September 6 – 22
- More than 2 weeks full program (ask for the draft schedule)
- 5-6 Research Clusters
- Invited Speakers and Teachers:
e.g. Teddy Cruy
Lawrence Herzog
Tito Alegria
- Two host universities:
San Diego State University (SDSU)
Universidad Iberoamericano Tijuana (UIA)
- Participants from several universities:
San Diego State University
Universidad Iberoamericano Tijuana
University Kings College London (UCL)
Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e)
Technical University of Delft (TUD)
Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)
- Concluding Public Presentation and Workshop Certificate to all participants
- Costs: Flights, Accommodation and Workshop estimates: 1.250 Euros
- External funding estimates: 350- 500 Euros
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