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This AURORA seminar is a co-taught blended learning enterprise.
The urban planning master program at the University of Paris-Est (UPEC) and University Gustave Eiffel (UGA), directed by Prof. Dr. Marcus Zepf, brings its PROMU course (programmation urbaine), co-directed by Hélène Dang Vu (UGA) to this learning enterprise. The PROMU course trains students for careers in urban project management and project management assistance in the public and private sectors of urban development. The courses reflect current trends in urban transitions and the diversification of stakeholders and practices, as well as developments in public urban policy, project structuring and the economics of urban development. It also incorporates new ecological and societal considerations: climate change, land use efficiency, eco-conditional financing, adaptation of development practices, and changes in lifestyles and urban practices.
The UDE Cultural and American Studies program, directed by Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau, invites students from a selection of research-driven cultural studies modules to participate. These courses train students for careers as teachers of English in secondary education and as project managers and professionals in the creative economy. A sound understanding of the power of texts, images, sounds and media to shape the perceptions and attitudes of their recipients is the most important envisioned learning outcome in these courses. A critical cultural literacy which allows for a differentiated assessment of pragmatic texts such as planning documents and the self-descriptions of urban institutions is the second envisioned learning outcome.
Jointly, we will use the transdisciplinary challenge of working across the disciplinary borders of urban planning and literary studies and working with stakeholders such as the deputy mayor of Essen and leaders of urban renewal initiatives from the Ruhr region to engage in hands-on, self-directed learning for societal impact, most specifically a learning that can help us to contribute meaningfully to SDG 11 – the global goal to "make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable."
This on-site 5-day class will use a variety of formats for the development of an evidence-rich grounded theory of the city and its competing scripts – including excursions in the Ruhr region, (guest) lectures from partners in the AURORA University Alliance, directed student research, and field work – to examine past and contemporary visions and examples of sustainable cities.
This class will allow students to improve their Information Literacy, Analysis, Written Communication, and Intercultural Knowledge competences.
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