quotidian, as well as how we seek to respond, we need to embark on the difficult but rewarding task of estranging and grasping the multiple realities of contemporary urban living. On this course, you will gain access to some useful critical intellectual tools for understanding mediated urban life, and as citizens, as well as graduate students, you will develop an informed and critical understanding of what it means to live in the contemporary city. You will be expected to investigate mediated urban living creatively and critically, through a range of cross-disciplinary association, combined and unconventional methodology (paying attention to historical links and materiality of communication) as well as developing your own interest in the more specific issues and phenomena. Course enrolment Excellent command of academic English. Willingness to engage in an interdisciplinary study of requirements and entry unfamiliar phenomena and commitment to weekly readings, regular attendance and fieldwork. competences: By the end of the course students will: become familiar with key perspectives from many relevant perspectives on the relevance • of and communications in the development of the modern (industrial) city and the post-modern (service-based) metropolis; Learning outcomes be able to engage informed and critical exploration of an empirical case of • (at the level of the course): mediated urban living; demonstrate a sound understanding of how urban communication informs the ongoing • transformation of both cities and people’s daily lives; think inter-disciplinarily about matters of space, technology, identity and community; • work individually and in groups, and make use of a diverse range of academic and • resources (e.g. the arts, libraries, electronic sources, public sites, archives, etc.). Session 1 Media and the city: a fateful connection? – Session 2 A critical survey of mediated urbanism and experience (from the modern industrial city – to the post-modern metropolis): introducing spatial analysis Session 3 The Cinematic City – Session 4 - Exploring Screens and Media Architectures: from the Window to the Façade, with Course content urban semiotics (weekly schedule): Session 5 Outdoor Advertising: Images and Impulses of Urban Consumption – Session 6 Urban branding and regeneration: privatisation of public space as motor of – urbanism? Session 7 Visions and pitfalls of virtual urbanity: governance and protests – Session 8 Understanding (post)modern urban sensibilities from below: Urban Walks –
quotidian, as well as how we seek to respond, we need to embark on the difficult but rewarding task of estranging and grasping the multiple realities of contemporary urban living. On this course, you will gain access to some useful critical intellectual tools for understanding mediated urban life, and as citizens, as well as graduate students, you will develop an informed and critical understanding of what it means to live in the contemporary city. You will be expected to investigate mediated urban living creatively and critically, through a range of cross-disciplinary association, combined and unconventional methodology (paying attention to historical links and materiality of communication) as well as developing your own interest in the more specific issues and phenomena. Course enrolment requirements and entry competences: Excellent command of academic English. Willingness to engage in an interdisciplinary study of unfamiliar phenomena and commitment to weekly readings, regular attendance and fieldwork. Learning outcomes (at the level of the course): By the end of the course students will: • become familiar with key perspectives from many relevant perspectives on the relevance of and communications in the development of the modern (industrial) city and the post-modern (service-based) metropolis; • be able to engage informed and critical exploration of an empirical case of mediated urban living; • demonstrate a sound understanding of how urban communication informs the ongoing transformation of both cities and people’s daily lives; • think inter-disciplinarily about matters of space, technology, identity and community; • work individually and in groups, and make use of a diverse range of academic and resources (e.g. the arts, libraries, electronic sources, public sites, archives, etc.). Course content (weekly schedule): Session 1 – Media and the city: a fateful connection? Session 2 – A critical survey of mediated urbanism and experience (from the modern industrial city to the post-modern metropolis): introducing spatial analysis Session 3 – The Cinematic City Session 4 - Exploring Screens and Media Architectures: from the Window to the Façade, with urban semiotics Session 5 – Outdoor Advertising: Images and Impulses of Urban Consumption Session 6 – Urban branding and regeneration: privatisation of public space as motor of urbanism? Session 7 – Visions and pitfalls of virtual urbanity: governance and protests Session 8 – Understanding (post)modern urban sensibilities from below: Urban Walks
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