WORKSHOP „RE-IMAGINE URBAN CURRICULA (a needs assessment)

Ljubjana 5-7th of December 2018

• I_What is INTREPID• II_WG 3• III_Urban Curricula• IV_The Workshop

I_INTREPID

COST ACTION TD1408Interdisciplinarity in research programming andfunding cycles (INTREPID)

Mai 2015 to Mai 2019

Final conference „ INTREPID Knowledge“ March 26-29th 2019 in Lisbon

http://www.intrepid-cost.eu

II_WG 3

‘Build an interdisciplinary group of scientists that will promote self-reflection, shared learning, stimulate discussion, with the aim of deepening understanding of the opportunities and obstacles affecting access to funding and research practice’

Objectives of WG3

• Identify HOW to overcome barriers to interdisciplinarities in funding and higher education institutions

• WHAT institutional / Practical implications for interdisciplinarity mainstreaming in a) funding cycle and b) Higher education institutions, c) funders

• Propose innovative urban research programs benefitting from ID approaches• Bridge separate fields of science• Learn from diversity of practices around the world

-> Phase I (2 years) Framework: 1) Edited volume and 2) Toolkit-> Phase II (2 years) Future universities – Re-imagining urban curricula

Aims

What we have done

Overview of steps for the first phase

Publications

FrameworkPhases/Categories

Process Competences Context

Joint knowledgeproduction

Metho-dology

Communi-Cation/Facilitation

Leadership& management

Cultural& social

Structural/Institutional

Funding

Co-designCo-productionDissemination Continuation

TOOLKIT

TRAINING SCHOOLS

Jointly with Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) based in Gothenburg, Sweden we look into establishing a toolkit on transdisciplinary research and co-production.

We tested the first draft of the toolkit in the first INTREPID training school.

Recognizing that many of the identified competences and skills in the framework are not being taught in the urban programs we are involved with the second phase focuses on the future role of academia and re-imagine urban curricula across Europe.

Second phase

III_Urban Curricula

The future of universities “Re-imagining the urban curriculum”

Objectives• to part-recover, part-expand, the overall mission of Universities as a public good that delivers

education (knowledge and capabilities), wellbeing (of those inside and outside its ‘walls’, notably the city: a porous university), and social equality.

• to rethink the practice of transdisciplinarity as a suitable learning experience for students. • to brainstorm on which capabilities, skills and dispositions we would need to teach in an urban

curriculum, so as to equip students with the ability to tackle future challenges linked to sustainability and (in)equality (in relationship to ID/TD but not only);

• to expand the remit of curricula to embrace a broader notion of ‘knowledge’ that includes new ways of thinking, acting and being which can serve some of the following issues: critical thinking, the ethical dimension of applied research (the ‘should’) and the need to co-create values – showing the ‘value of values’, the relevance of active rather than inert knowledge, the need to rediscover the value of ‘generalists’ and their capacity for bridging and synthesis.

• to identify a series of cases (urban-type courses) and possibly course leaders 'open' to rethink an urban curriculum for the future or simply interested in the topic.

The future of universities “Re-imagining the urban curriculum”

In order to obtain these objectives, following suggestions are made• To first conduct a survey on transdisciplinarity in curricula within the spatial disciplines

(architecture, urban planning, architecture and geography). This would deliver the basic argument for the need of a revised curricula and first ideas on how to proceed.

• Second, to develop a ‘manifesto’ that all involve partners sign up to and which will be the framework for testing innovative new ways of dealing with rebalancing our focus between teaching knowledge and building capabilities, skills and dispositions.

• Third, to apply for further funding in order to develop a round of ‘workshops’ with students for transdisciplinary approaches in diverse localities with a rotating host as part of a larger initiative on re-imagine urban curricula. -> Erasmus Application on Capasity Building in HE

IV_THE WORKSHOP

Wednesday 5thth of December

9:30 - 11:00 Introductory Session

• Welcome address by local host institution| Igor Bizjak, director of UIRS, and Matej Nikšič, local host at UIRS

• Presentation of TD1403 and WG3: | Josefine Fokdal

• State of art of Urban Curricula | Giulio Verdini

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 2 : State of art of Urban Curricula - Brainstorming| Josefine and Giulio

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break (Restaurant Julija, Stari trg 9 - location TBC)

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3 – Work in groups; followed by Reporting back from the groups |Sabina Cioboata

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:00 Lecture: Introduction to Day 2 case study - The general overview of the urban development of Ljubljana |Breda Mihelič, UIRS emeritus

Agenda

Thursday 6th of December

9:00 - 10:30 Guided tour: Plečnik and Ljubljana | Katarina Metelko, Museum of architecture and design (MAO); meeting point: in front of City Museum of Ljubljana, Gosposka ulica 15

10:30 - 11:00 Warming-up-coffee at UIRS // Meeting Room: Library, Floor 0 (entrance through Mercator passage parallel to Ljubljanica river)

11:00 – 13:00 Urban Planning Curriculum - Slovenian Perspectives - Opening and moderation by Depart. of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana| Alenka Fikfak

• Presentation of »MEMUD« project (Middle European Joint Master for Urban Design) | Tadej Glažar, Ilka Čerpes and Vid de Gleria, Faculty of Architecture

• Analogical Systems as a Pedagogical Tool in Urban Design | Tatjana Capuder, Vidmar, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Landscape Architecture

• Student workshop as a successful method of project-based learning in higher education study programmes | Alma Zavodnik Lamovsek, Faculty of Civil and GeodeticEngineering

• Brownfileds regeneration - Work between the Urban Planning Institute's interdisciplinary projects and Faculty’s teaching activities | Boštjan Cotič, Urban Planning Institute of RS

• Hands-on experimentation as a teaching approach in enabling participatory urban design | Matej Nikšič and Alenka Fikfak, Urban Planning Institute of RS and Faculty ofArchitecture

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Manna, Eipprova ulica 1 - location TBC)

14:00 – 15:00 Introduction to the Case Study of Vodnikova cesta // Meeting Room: Library, Floor 0 (entrance through Mercator passage parallel to Ljubljanica river)

• Opening and moderation by Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia| Matej Nikšič

• Marko Peterlin, IPoP, Institute for Spatial Policies and initiative Uredimo Vodnikovo

• Klemen Milovanovič, LUZ, Urban Institute of Ljubljana

15:00 – 15:30 Transfer to case study area (public transport, organised by UIRS)

15:30 – 16:30 Guided tour

16:30 – 17:30 Reflection time (Valentin Vodnik Primary School, Adamičeva ulica 16 – location TBC)

Friday 7th of December

9:00 – 9:30: Registration

9:30 - 10: Lessons learned from day 1 and 2 (Hans and Prue)

10-11:30 Further steps (Giulio and Josefine)

• Survey modifications

• Final INTREPID conference

• EU application on capacity builing in HE

11:30-13: Brainstorming on EU Application and establish a first roadmap (Giulio and Josefine)

Erasmus+ Key Action 2 - Capacity building in the field of higher education

„The projects aim to encourage cooperation between the EU and Partner Countries and support eligible Partner Countries in addressing challenges in the management and governance oftheir higher education institutions. This includes improving thequality of higher education, developing new and innovative education programmes, modernising higher education systemsthrough reform policies as well as fostering cooperation acrossdifferent regions of the world through joint initiatives.“

• Duration - between 24 and 36 months• Grants for projects € 500.000 – 1.000.000• Application deadline 07.02.2019, projects start 15.11.2019 or 15.01.2020

Erasmus+ Key Action 2 - Capacity building in the field of higher education

Joint Projects (aimed at organisations to help improve curriculums, governance, and thestrengthening of relations between higher education systems.)The development, testing and adaptation of:

• curricula, courses, learning materials and tools• learning and teaching methodologies and pedagogical approaches,• new forms of practical training schemes and study of real-life cases in business and industry• university-enterprise cooperation and business start-ups• new forms of learning and providing education and training• virtual mobility, open educational resources• guidance, counselling and coaching methods and tools• tools and methods for professionalization and professional development of academic and administrative

staff• quality assurance at programme and institution level• new governance and management systems and structures• modern university services e.g. for financial management, international relations, student counselling

and guidance, academic affairs and researchStrengthening of the internationalisation of HEI and capacity to network effectively in research, scientific and technological innovationUpgrading of facilitiesStaff trainings

National projects involving institutions from only one eligible Partner Country require the participation of:• minimum 1 HEI from at least two of the Programme Countries taking part in

the project• minimum 3 HEIs from the Partner Country taking part in the project• at least as many Partner Country HEIs as Programme Country HEIs

Multi-country projects require the participation of:• minimum 1 HEI from at least two of the Programme Countries taking part in

the project• minimum 2 HEIs from each Partner Country taking part in the project• at least as many Partner Country HEIs as there are Programme Country

HEIs