4.303
The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue: This is Tomorrow: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia
Instructor: Ute Meta Bauer
Office: N51-334
Phone: 617-452-2764
umb@mit.edu
Section 2 Instructur: TBA
Units: 3-3-3
Level: G
Prerequisites:
Meets: Seminar M 12.30 – 3.30p, Room N51-315, N51-348
Lecture Series: M 7 – 9p, Joan Jonas Performance Hall N51-337
This seminar engages dialogue in architecture and urbanism from the perspective of the artistic field. “This is tomorrow” – shown 1956 in London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery – was a path breaking transdisciplinary exhibition involving key artists and architects, musicians and designers, which evaluated “habitation” through the human senses. Fifty years later, how do we imagine future co-habitation, alternative communities and societies to come? Reviewing the notion of Urban Utopia, Heterotopia and Dystopia, researching and investigating examples will be the point of departure for directed research and studio-based practice. Readings and discussions, a weekly lecture series and a direct collaboration with the FEMA trailer project (course 4.365) will inform the work of student group formations to envision “a tomorrow” in the format of an exhibition.
