A 'critical urban archive'
In this course students engage with several methods of analysis and research. Working with the concept of the 'critical urban archive' students investigate the multitude of issues regarding the arrangement and stratification of knowledge. The archive will provide a ‘library’ of knowledge that would become a core of the course's research culture. The idea is to, initially, emphasize urban formations in London that in the second part of the programme will be discussed, complimented and contrasted with examples investigated in studio trips or individual research projects.
The city in transformation, the urban fragment, the extremes of change, or (r)-evolution and stasis, the ‘foreign’ and the ‘own’, and the effects on the typologies and individualities of urban facts, will serve as a laboratory to understand, promote, resist, develop undermine the emerging architectures of the city in investigation.
