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| 0881-6005-01 | Utopia as a Planning and Thinking Methodology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course description
The course discusses utopia as a central tool in visioning places and cities in architecture and planning. It discusses the power of the imagined and the utopian as a method that challenges existing reality and generates a new social awareness. The sections of the course includes: 1. Utopian perspectives: Marxists, architectural/planning, feminist, post-structural; 2. Utopia in planning and architecture; 4. Debating utopia: critical perspectives?5. Utopia as a methodology in thinking and visioning practice; 3. Utopian planning in Israel