Elective at semester(s) 6, 8, ECTS: 3
Taught in: Greek, Available to ERASMUS students in English and Spanish.
The course focuses on design as a productive process that help us to formulate the land, materials (raw and processed), crafts, techniques and culturally defined uses. Architectural forms and objects are both artefacts that can inform us about complex and fascinating social processes; they are outcomes of different types of knowledge that defines the transformation of materials; they are outcomes of social exchange in space, of reproduction and transformation of human practices in the ‘longue durée’.
In the present course, design meets research and theory. Students are assigned to design a space and to materialize an object parallel to doing field research and reading relevant texts on the typology of the studied spaces and objects, on materials and techniques of material production. Students are asked as well to narrate the stories and histories of the past, present and potential future in the making of the objects and spaces they study.
Bibliography in English and Spanish
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Braudel, F. (1996), The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip, vol.1, Berkley: University of California Press.
Escobar, A. (2012), Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ingold, T. (1993), "The Temporality of the Landscape", World Archaeology, 25(2): pp. 152-174.
Lefebvre, H. (2014), Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Morris, W. (2008), Useful Work and Useless Toil, London: Penguin Books.
Polanyi, Κ. (2001), The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Boston: Beacon Press.
Raíces, Crítica, análisis & debate en torno a la destrucción del territorio, n.7 Manoseando el pensamiento, Invierno-Primavera 2017.
Rudofsky, B. (1980) Now I lay me Down to Eat: notes and footnotes on the lost art of living, New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday.
Said, E.W. (1996), Κουλτούρα και Ιμπεριαλισμός, μτφ. Λάππα, Β. Α., Αθήνα: Νεφέλη.
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2014), Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide, NY: Routledge.
Sennet, R. (2009), The Craftsman, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Tello R. (ed.) (2016) Jean-Pierre Garnier, un sociólogo urbano a contracorriente, Barcelona: Icaria.