Examples for enlarging the professional scope of the discipline are being developed all around the world in the current millennium. In reinventing itself, urban design will have to move more radically beyond substantive relations and into procedural relations. This evolution also has the potential to turn the educational activity related to the profession into a more rewarding one for students and teachers alike. The authors hope that the ‘Home Grown: Housing Alliances on the Rise’ studio can contribute to this reinvention in the sense that it explores new procedural territory. Student participants of UD Studio WS 2015/16 include (listed project-wise): Big Box+: Bengt Kröner, Sebastian Kunz, Yisha Zhang, Yue Zhang Big M-F - Suitable Housing for Everyone: Samuel Barben, Louise Biehl, Lisa Brunner, Sabrina Hövener, José Velez Boxymoron: Hisar Ersöz, Anne Gunia, Mateusz Rej, Frederik Springer, Piroska Szabó
Jasper Lippert, Hannes Mundt, Phil von Lueder, Saba Khanghahi, Xianling Zhang Jam Session: Svenja Binz, Julia Brennauer, Li Ao, Jim Reifferscheid PanCo- Grow Together: Luisa Appenrodt, Minji Kim, Luisa Multer, Andrea Protschky, Selina Schöller-Mann Slices for Community: Christin Bernartz, Laurène Cendrey, Nadine Krell, Kerstin Parschat, Lisa Wagner Terrace Pankow!: Yushan Chen, Rico Samuel Diedering, Finya Eichhorst, Hilde Rosenboom, Farina Runge The Master Program Urban Design at the TU Berlin is a consecutive four-semester course for graduates with a bachelor degree in architecture, urban- and regional planning, landscape architecture or similar courses. The two-year program is offered as a multi- and transdisciplinary program in cooperation with the Institute of Architecture, the Institute of Urban- and Regional Planning, the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and the Institute of Sociology. The Urban Design Studio profiled in this article is a compulsory course for all first year students
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About the Authors Monika Katharina Hagg graduated in architecture and urban design from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Her main interest is described by the question: “Who is Urban Design?” referring to the various factors and actors that shape the city. Before moving to Berlin, Katharina Hagg worked as urban designer, project manager and head of urbanism at offices in the Netherlands, among others at KCAP architects & planners in Rotterdam. Here she specialized in urban master planning and sustainable transformation processes. In addition to office work, she taught at diverse international universities, academies and summer schools. She is currently a researcher at the Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization (CUD) at TU Berlin. To connect with Katharina, visit http://www.cud.tu-berlin.de/chair/ Oliver Schetter has been a researcher at the Habitat Unit at TU Berlin since June 2014. Oliver studied architecture at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and he holds a Master in International Development from Cornell University. His research circles around the design and user adaption of planned cities and spontaneous settlements, the dynamics of vernacular architecture, affordable housing, and the relation between imagined, planned, and social spaces of diverse cultural backgrounds. To connect with Oliver, visit http://habitat-unit.de/en/team/oliver-schetter/
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