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Description With over 70% of the world’s population set to be urban by 2050, and with fossil fuels becoming increasingly rare and unaffordable, SWAT takes the position that solutions for a meaningful and healthy life on this planet must be urban and sustainable. By engaging with city stakeholders, real urban conditions and lifestyles, students will go onto develop solutions that are societally impactful at various scales, i.e. from landscape to facade. Creating designs greater than the sum of their technological parts, which offer social value and opportunities for the families who live there. The future role of the designer goes beyond an exclusive knowledge of structure, facade and/or climate. Today’s designer seeks to widen their understanding and appreciation of what communities’ face. They know ‘why’ they design something, and for whom they design. SWAT design proposals vary in scale and theme. All aim for greater community well-being and spatial environmental quality. Examples themes include continuous productive urban landscapes, Food, Energy, Water, blue/green roofs/facades, shared space, community canopies, citizen spaces, urban heat island solutions, ecological green lungs, circular economy high streets, inter-seasonal landmarks, pocket parks, photovoltaic piazzas. SWAT Phases 1. Briefing (Wks 1 - 2). Preliminary urban site investigations, socio-technical readings, energy flow mapping, Pecha-Kucha presentations (Group working). 2. Intervention (Wks 3 - 4). Intensive and onsite workshop in which students develop urban-scaled sustainable designs in response to the urban challenges and potentials (Group working). 3. Elaboration (Wks 5 - 9). Where one design element of the larger group Intervention proposal is individually developed and detailed (Individual working). Are you a student who is interested in: • How technology can solve societal challenges? • Collaborating with people from different disciplines and backgrounds? • Engaging with city stakeholders? • Sharing ideas and knowledge? • Listening, offering feedback and presenting to others? • Making freehand design sketches? • Drawing ideograms / infographics? • Graphically visualising future scenarios on how we live? If so, SWAT is for you! Intervention Locations The ‘Intervention’ is typically located onsite within The Netherlands, with costs kept to a minimum, relating to daily public transport and bike hire expenses. Students are expected to self-fund all excursions and will be notified about the location prior to the start of the programme in order to make the appropriate logistical and financial arrangements. In exceptional cases where the studio travels abroad, expenses are likely to increase to around 500 EUR (Note: Visa requirements are the responsibility of the student). Tutors Dr. Craig Lee Martin (Studio Director) Ir. Eric van den Ham Dr. Alejandro Prieto Hoces Ir. Seibe Broersma Ir. Peter Teeuw Code AR3B015 Credits 15 ECTS Location BK TU Delft Excursion Yes Aims • Connecting communities by meeting their societal challenges. • Promoting healthy, productive, enjoyable and carbon neutral lifestyles. Objectives • To undertake a rigorous study of seminal sustainability readers and ‘place’, i.e. city, community, street, citizen and lifestyle, in order to define a neighbourhoods local and global challenges and potentials. • To develop highly visual and verbal communicative ‘storytelling’ skills that are intregral to the design process and optimise stakeholder understanding. • To design creative and impactful interventional technological landscapes that are capable of becoming a catalyst for family well- being and life opportunity. S.W.A.T. Studio MSc3 ‘Social-sustainability’ Workshop Advancing Technology Fall semester 2020 - 2021 Image: SWAT Amersfoort Intervention Phase
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Description
With over 70% of the world’s population set to be urban by 2050, and with fossil fuels becoming increasingly rare and unaffordable, SWAT takes the position that solutions for a meaningful and healthy life on this planet must be urban and sustainable.
By engaging with city stakeholders, real urban conditions and lifestyles, students will go onto develop solutions that are societally impactful at various scales, i.e. from landscape to facade. Creating designs greater than the sum of their technological parts, which offer social value and opportunities for the families who live there.
The future role of the designer goes beyond an exclusive knowledge of structure, facade and/or climate. Today’s designer seeks to widen their understanding and appreciation of what communities’ face. They know ‘why’ they design something, and for whom they design.
SWAT design proposals vary in scale and theme. All aim for greater community well-being and spatial environmental quality. Examples themes include continuous productive urban landscapes, Food, Energy, Water, blue/green roofs/facades, shared space, community canopies, citizen spaces, urban heat island solutions, ecological green lungs, circular economy high streets, inter-seasonal landmarks, pocket parks, photovoltaic piazzas.
SWAT Phases
1. Briefing (Wks 1 - 2). Preliminary urban site investigations, socio-technical readings, energy flow mapping, Pecha-Kucha presentations (Group working).2. Intervention (Wks 3 - 4). Intensive and onsite workshop in which students develop urban-scaled sustainable designs in response to the urban challenges and potentials (Group working).3. Elaboration (Wks 5 - 9). Where one design element of the larger group Intervention proposal is individually developed and detailed (Individual working).
Are you a student who is interested in:
• How technology can solve societal challenges?
• Collaborating with people from different disciplines and backgrounds?
• Engaging with city stakeholders? • Sharing ideas and knowledge?• Listening, offering feedback and
presenting to others?• Making freehand design sketches? • Drawing ideograms / infographics?• Graphically visualising future scenarios
on how we live?
If so, SWAT is for you!
Intervention LocationsThe ‘Intervention’ is typically located onsite within The Netherlands, with costs kept to a minimum, relating to daily public transport and bike hire expenses. Students are expected to self-fund all excursions and will be notified about the location prior to the start of the programme in order to make the appropriate logistical and financial arrangements. In exceptional cases where the studio travels abroad, expenses are likely to increase to around 500 EUR
(Note: Visa requirements are the responsibility of the student).
Tutors
Dr. Craig Lee Martin (Studio Director)Ir. Eric van den HamDr. Alejandro Prieto HocesIr. Seibe BroersmaIr. Peter Teeuw
Code AR3B015
Credits 15 ECTS
Location BK TU Delft
Excursion Yes
Aims
• Connecting communities by meeting their societal challenges.
• Promoting healthy, productive, enjoyable and carbon neutral lifestyles.
Objectives
• To undertake a rigorous study of seminal sustainability readers and ‘place’, i.e. city, community, street, citizen and lifestyle, in order to define a neighbourhoods local and global challenges and potentials.
• To develop highly visual and verbal communicative ‘storytelling’ skills that are intregral to the design process and optimise stakeholder understanding.
• To design creative and impactful interventional technological landscapes that are capable of becoming a catalyst for family well-being and life opportunity.
S.W.A.T. StudioMSc3 ‘Social-sustainability’ Workshop Advancing Technology
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Image: SWAT Amersfoort Intervention Phase
