SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY

Drawing from a distorted view of a genre that may be coined speculative documentary the course puts emphasis on developing a sense of reality that resides within and beyound the factual and narrative of how inhabitable space can be seen, described, analyzed and envisioned. 

Based on the movie The Wild Blue Yonder  by Werner Herzog (2005), in 10 chapters we will browse through the history of development of mankind and at the same time project a trajectory of future habitations deep into time, far from now. Special attention is given to reconsidering the role and reasoning of the architectural, planning and spatial disciplines as a driving force to comprehend the past, current and future state of living spaces with an emphasis on the speculative and visionary power to alter our understanding of realty and/or realty itself.

Continuous assessment through frequent and active participation.

Presentation, investigation of a sub-topic.

Seminar-work: documented visual/textual elaboration with negotiable focus, related to individual interest and the subject of the course.

NOTE: Priority is given to students of architecture from their 2nd year on, who did not yet participate in the course. Ranking is made by order of registration and semester-level; Others are very welcome as long as there are places (max 15 participants). 

**** with regard to the current regulations the class will be conducted in distance mode -until further notice. ****

Sessions in the 2nd half of June will be scheduled in accordance to feasibilitywith regard to te IoA schedule.