As part of the activities of the CiD Circular Design Innovation Alliance, students are invited to join for innovative academic formats in 2024-25.
Part 1: SEMINAR WINTER 24/25
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Circular Design research seminar (Oct 2024–Jan 2025, M.Sc/B.Sc Seminar 5 CP)
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Circular Design workshop in Barcelona (Feb 2025, Workshop 5 CP, Projekt Kurz 5 CP), with pre- and postproduction, linked to the research seminar
Part 2: PROJEKT LANG SOMMER 25
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Circular Design urban design project (Apr-Jul 2025, M.Sc Projekt Lang 12 CP)
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Circular Design exhibition (Jul 2025, M.Sc Stegreif 2 CP), linked to the Projekt Lang
Part 3: SEPTEMBER 25
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Circular Design accelerator in Tallinn (Sep 2025, M.Sc Prozessgestaltung und Kommunikation 5 CP), the accelerator and the excursion to Tallinn in September 2025 is for selected groups from the Projekt Lang
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Circular Design excursion Tallinn (Sep 2025, MSc 3 CP), linked to the accelerator
What is the idea for the courses?
The aim of the courses is to bring circularity thinking into city-making. It develops a design research approach to connect dynamics between space and society. The focus is on urban change and the role of the urban/territorial scale in the overall innovatory triangle of the European Innovation Alliance Circular Design (CiD): to re-think design for circular economy, shift design toward climate-neutrality of cities, and foster bio-innovation for the built environment. With its overall creative approach, the Lab aims at linkages between structural change in the urban fabric and processes of change, the activation and engagement of stakeholders with the manifest change of public, community, and private space, their experience and cultural expression.
All courses are part of the CiD Urban Design Research Lab, in order to form a community and platform for urban change. Master students will be involved to extend methodologies of design research as performative approach: with open experimentation, evolvement of focus, questions and innovatory processes, discussion, feedback-loops, and open models. The Lab aims at linkages between urban design, planning, governance, and urban research, as well as to connect them in a new way to architecture, product and service design, and to territorial innovation—and interdisciplinarily to material sciences, social and economic sciences, and engineering. This wide interdisciplinary setup is supported by the 11 partners of the Innovation Alliance, for example IAAC Barcelona, the Creative Incubators Tallinn, or Materiom Ltd. London, and by Europe-wide and local Observatories with experts experts from enterprises, public bodies and NGOs active in city-making.
How does it work?
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three parts: 1. seminar plus workshop Barcelona, 2. Projekt Lang plus exhibiton, 3. then selected groups form the Projekt Lang are inivited for the accelerator and excursion to Tallinn
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you can enter independently into the parts 1 and 2
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still, we invite to join both parts 1 and 2: a certain share of places in the second part is for those who continue from the first
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however, also new students will be admitted for the second part
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the second part (Projekt Lang etc) is for masters, the first part (seminar) is for masters but also advanced bachelors may join
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you can use the research seminar or/and the Projekt Lang for a thesis, we would welcome that
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both the travels to the workshop in Barcelona and the Accelerator in Tallinn are funded
CiD Circular Design Innovation Alliance is co-funded by the European Union.
www.cid-innovationalliance.eu
