HTOK00001U Urban Culture in Theory and Action (IARU Global Summer Program)

Volume 2014/2015
Education

MA Elective in Global Urban Studies (Kandidattilvalget i Globale Bystudier, 2015-ordningen)

Content

This summer school focuses on cultural entrepreneurship and social innovation in the city by combining urban theory with hands-on practice. Through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and field trips, the student will engage with cultural practitioners and urban theorists from across the world. Bringing academic knowledge of urban life together with empirical know-how generated by practitioners, the program do-it-yourself approach will help students develop their own ideas into project proposals that can inspire entrepreneurship and innovation in their home cities.

The program is tied together with the simultaneous STRØM electronic music festival and embedded within Copenhagen’s alternative spaces, particularly the co-creative community PB43. Using Copenhagen as a laboratory for studying music, art and innovative use or development of urban space, the summer school opens up to cross-cultural and global perspectives through presentations of research from Asia and the Middle East.

Learning Outcome

MA Elective in Global Urban Studies (KA-tilvalg i Globale Bystudier):

Urban Culture in Theory and Action (Bykultur i teori og handling), Fagelementkode (Fagelementkode: HTÆK03361E)

A text corpus will be specified for accepted students by May 1st. It is expected that students read all the required text material before the summer school.

The program consists of lectures and talks by Danish and international scholars of standing; seminars and group tutorials run by the summer school team; and field trips and fieldwork assignments outside the university.
For students at TORS: We highly recommend that you also enroll in ‘Politics and Public Space in Modern Asian Cities (Specialized Urban Topic)’ in E2015 so that the two courses together can form 15 ECTS.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Colloquia
  • 15
  • Exam
  • 1
  • Excursions
  • 25,6
  • Guidance
  • 12
  • Lectures
  • 22
  • Practical exercises
  • 21
  • Preparation
  • 100
  • Project work
  • 10
  • Total
  • 206,6
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Criteria for exam assesment

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