Course content
This subject focuses on urban observation and representation, methods of urban design control and concept development and approaches to inquiry by design and into design. Assuming basic design skills, it seeks to provide a conceptual and personal framework for enhancing these abilities, and make them more sensitive and relevant to urban settings and public environments. The course provides a good foundation in observation, analytic, communication graphic, and investigative skills, an appreciation of the importance of these skills and approaches to foster, develop and advance them over time. It will seek to convey personal experience and methodical expertise in nine dimensions of urban quality, while providing participants with a good understanding of the key literature. 

The course aims at providing a good foundation in observation, analytic, communication graphic, and investigative skills, an appreciation of the importance of these skills and on approaches to foster, develop and advance them over time. Specifically it will seek to convey personal experience and expertise in these nine dimensions of quality management:

• Telling: how to express knowledge, beliefs and memory
• Sensing: how to feel, anticipate and innately understand
• Noting : how to observe, notice, map and remember
• Inquiring : how to postulate, test, discover and reflect
• Researching : how to conduct design investigations
• Imagining : how to exercise your imaginary powers
• de/briefing : how to communicate in the urban design process
• conceiving : how to conecptualise and invent creative solutions
• guiding : how to positively influence complex processes and their outcomes

Approach and format
This hands-on course consist of instruction, in-class projects and challenges, assignments, discussions and presentations. Graphic tools will be required, from manual to photographic and computer-based. Besides the weekly tasks, there will be reading assigned to assist in skills development and comprehension.

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