Merge pull request #33 from fablabbcn/ChiaraDallOlio-2nd-year-syllabi

Updates 2nd year syllabi

docs/2024-25/year-2/elective-courses/applied-research-seminars/recitying/index.md

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+## Syllabus
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+[ReCITYing](https://recitying.org/) is an EU-funded project that seeks to leverage temporary reuse as a key strategy for urban and rural regeneration by creating a platform for knowledge exchange on how these practices can transform underutilized or neglected spaces into cultural hubs. By uniting young creatives, designers, policymakers, and social enterprises, ReCITYing aims to foster co-creation and participatory design processes, encouraging community engagement in transforming vacant spaces into artistic laboratories and cultural incubators.
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+This course, part of the ReCITYing project, explores the intersection of architecture, design, agronomy, and art to reimagine underused rural spaces through creative recycling and collaborative action. The focus will be on one of the four pilot cases of the project, the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat, an agricultural landscape near Barcelona.
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+In this context, the course seeks to address not only the physical underuse of the land but also the social underuse of the space. It will introduce students to the potential of agricultural processes to generate sustainable products made entirely from plants, by-products, and agricultural production waste. Students will explore how to create holistic processes that support a circular economy and reinforce the values of sustainability. 
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+The course will consist of three main phases, each focusing on a different aspect of creative recycling, land art, and collaborative architectural design.
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+The *first phase*, taking place in October, will involve an immersive creative workshop where students will work together to explore how agricultural by-products, plants, and other materials from the Parc Agrari can be transformed into a sustainable product that leads to an artistic architectural installation.
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+In January, the *second phase* will see students refining the workshop outcomes, developing one proposal into a practical design that is both buildable and sustainable.
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+The *final phase*, occurring in May, will involve the students in the full-scale construction of the installation within the Parc Agrari.
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+See full course details [here](https://blog.iaac.net/course/maa02-mact02-mrac02-24-25-recitying-workshop/).

docs/2024-25/year-2/elective-courses/applied-theory-workshops/co-creating-public-spaces/index.md

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+## Syllabus
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+This design seminar on data-driven analysis-design process to understand and address local needs on different dimensions: social, physical/urban, environmental. In order to facilitate this process, the seminar will be developed in 2 separate, but complimentary parts:
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+- First (21st-25th of October), working on social and physical vulnerability, exploring the collaborative dimension of design, and focusing on open spaces.
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+- Second (25th-29th of November), working on environmental vulnerability, exploring the ecological dimension of design, and focusing on ecological connectivity.
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+The students will focus on the development of these principles, working in groups, and in a close-by location (Santa Coloma de Gramenet), combining on-the-field observation with data analysis and design.
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+See full course details [here](https://blog.iaac.net/course/mact01-24-25-cocreating-public-space/).

docs/2024-25/year-2/elective-courses/applied-theory-workshops/designing-for-more-than-humans/index.md

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+## Syllabus
 
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+Centres to human life, cities represent the main threat to fine ecological balances, but are also responsible at multiple levels for the health of citizens. Metropolitan areas are therefore key in addressing such issues to maintain the wellbeing of all living things. To this end, concepts like renaturing and rewilding offer an unprecedented challenge for designers: to approach urban landscape under a dynamic, collective, multidisciplinary and multiscalar perspective. These approaches are often developed in order to counteract the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on the ecology, rather than empowering ecology to actively adapt within today’s highly urbanised world, becoming an active partner within the definition of this transition. This is highlighted by the fact that the great majority of today’s legal systems only protect the rights of humans, often considering nature as one of the resources to be exploited “for the exclusive benefit of our own species.” (Thackara, 2015). These frameworks have the potential to empower designers to engage with nature as an active partner, questioning the status quo approach to considering and planning nature as a resource – for humans to exploit.
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+We aim to reconsider the polarisation between environmental forces and anthropocentric ones, providing an opportunity to consciously design for, and within, climate change adaptation, shifting inclusive design from a human-centric vision, to one that is also nature-centric. Students will delve into an exploration of how data driven methodologies can allow us to understand and plan for the needs of nature, collaborating actively with ecosystem engineers, with the goal of not only maintaining habitats, but also regenerating them, detecting and amplifying potential and beneficial ecological connections within urban and non-urban areas, in order to potentiate the ecological performance of the system as a whole, towards the development of strategies for life centred and resilient cities.
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+See full course details [here](https://blog.iaac.net/course/mact01-24-25-designing-for-more-than-humans/).

docs/2024-25/year-2/elective-courses/applied-theory-workshops/ecological-interactions/index.md

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 Over the centuries, the agricultural industrial sector has grown to become a force for ecological and climate change. Methods of landscape development for the production of food and material resources is now one of the most contested debates of our time. The ecological interactions seminar line, although mainly practical also examines what emerging techniques and infrastructure can be designed to be appropriate for climate resilient societies, productive enough for global markets whilst being ecologically regenerative rather than reductive. The Valldaura landscape and gardens offer a unique opportunity for innovation where tacit knowledge of plant and ecosystem development combined with new computational and digital tools to enhance knowledge and practice towards an ecological optimum for agricultural systems. The objective is for students and researchers to gain practical, hands-on experience of farm life. Part of the Valldaura living lab.
 
-**The classes will be held at the Valldaura Labs campus.**
+**The classes will be held in Benifallet, Tarragona.**
 
-See full course details [here](https://blog.iaac.net/course/maebb01-23-24-ecological-interactions-agriculture-zero/).
+See full course details [here](https://blog.iaac.net/course/maebb01-23-24-ecological-interactions-agriculture-zero/).