ACT! Workshop: Hybrid Practice

APRIL 16, 2016. 2–6 PM | GSD Piper Auditorium

*Seats are limited. Register before 5:00PM, Friday, April 8

 

Led by:

Christian Werthmann (Leibniz University Hannover)  

Alejandro Echeverri (URBAM, Center for Urban and Environmental Studies of EAFIT University, Medellín)

 

Workshop facilitators:

Neha Bhatt, Kimberly Driggins, and Brett Moore, Loeb Fellows at Harvard GSD

 

The afternoon workshop uses the experiences from the three urban regions to distill the specific challenges of working with a multiplicity of urban agendas,  disciplinary constraints, and social and political realities. During the workshop students work hand-in-hand with practitioners to develop and model propositions for generating urban narratives that inform, anchor and sustain a collective design process. The workshop will test a variety of representational techniques for expressing and communicating urban narratives, from story-telling to cognitive maps and other forms of narrative visualization.  Together, we will address the following questions:

 

• How can designers build vital links between local communities and urban policy?

• How can urban narratives serve as an inclusive and mobilizing vehicle of design?

• How do we ensure continuity in these local processes despite unpredictable political shifts?

• What kind of education supports this future role of design?