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Découvrez le programme enrichissant de notre module Theory Masterclass. Pour vous immerger pleinement et participer à l'ensemble des cours proposés, cliquez sur ce lien pour vous inscrire.
Si vous préférez, il est également possible de s'inscrire à des sessions spécifiques ou de choisir des cours individuels selon vos intérêts et besoins.
1. Introduction : The challenge of the transition project
Introduction
Architecture of anthropocene
Planetary boundaries: what lessons?
Climate issues
Agriculture & Food Systems: Food ecology for would-be food enabling urbanists
Hydrological Transitions for Mountain Metropolises
Living in the era of persistent overshoot : what will gain in value ?
Ecology & the Greater Geneva
Coordination session #1 Sensitive wandering
2. Parameters and dimensions
The basic metrics for decarbonation and resilience in the urban realm
Practical advice for incorporating biodiversity and climate into projects and plans
Global warming mapping
The parameters of natural solutions
Geopolitics in the Age of the Anthropocene
From ecosystem services to sustainable development
Energy systems: from resource to use, challenges and opportunities
From green growth to post-growth, via degrowth: What are we afraid of?
Coordination session #2
3. The human factor
Behavioral perspectives for sustainable action: psychological barriers and levers
An integrated view on the energy transition
Mobility spaces in the ecological transition
Urban mobilities analyses
The geo-resources of the Greater Geneva
The Doughnut of the Grand Genève, a guiding tool for coordinated cross-border political action towards the ecological transition.
UN-Habitat strategies for a sustainable and just urban world
Citizenship in the antropocene
Coordination session #3
4. The building factor
Terra 2 – How to build the total climate city
The ecological transition of the horizontal metropolis. The greater Geneva case
The architectural archeology of the ecological transition
Towards Ecotopia: how urbanism can lead to a carbon positive world
Territories of circular materials
Design in the age of emergency
Reinvention of modernity
The greater Geneva stakeholders of the ecological transition
Coordination session #4
Design Studio
Geneva is a unique international hub for the environmental cause. On the one hand, global governance and expertise (UN, UNEP, UN-Habitat, UNHCR, WMO, etc.) meet there to set policies for sustainable development; on the other hand, cantonal and communal authorities are developing large-scale strategies and innovative projects.
Being the second part of the Transition Workshop, the Design Studio offers you an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen your skills at this fertile intersection of personalities, strategies and tactics.
During two intense weeks, teachers and participants of the Design Studio develop ecological transition scenarios based on case studies located in, and in collaboration with, the Canton of Geneva. Lectures, interviews, site visits, research and team-based design are organized to enrich the process. A pre-jury takes place at the end of the first week, before a final presentation in front of a jury composed of representatives of stakeholders and professionals in the ecological transition of cities. The proposed scenarios come to life in different forms:
- Imaging techniques (manual, technical, CAD),
- Design of demonstrators integrated into the general masterplan,
- Speechwriting and Storytelling,
- Animations and simulations.
The work carried out during the Design Studio is ultimately showcased at the beginning of the following academic year during the Geneva Seminar (the annual public event of the FBA), and in the publication of a Recommendations Handout for stakeholders.
Design Studio 2024 | 1st to 12th July
Ecological Densities II
Today urban areas are facing a double challenge: on the one hand, demographic pressure due to new populations wishing to settle in; on the other hand, an urgent need to anticipate future climatic conditions, in the face of which resilience strategies must be developed.
This double front calls for integrated urban planning and architecture projects, designed and built to:
a. preserve the quality of life,
b. foster the presence of nature,
c. extend collective cohesion.
The case of the municipality of Versoix is offered to the Transition Workshop to study the feasibility of this triptych of solutions. Between lake and mountain, with communal, cantonal and national borders, under the noise of airplanes and adjacent to the main road network, the municipality is seeking to reinvent its roadmap to meet the needs of its inhabitants.
Bioclimatic design, reused/bio-sourced materials and urban metabolism will be at the heart of new urban and architectural projects, in the continuity of a method born within the Transition Workshop, that of ecological densities.
Discover the former Design Studios in which Transition Fellows participated.