AALTO ARTS SUMMER SCHOOL 2023 "LIVING WITH WOODS"
(Seminars, Webinar, Exhibitions, Frontal teaching, Workshop, Trips and excursions)
- Language: ENGLISH
- Campus: SPAZIO ESTERNO AL POLIMI, AULA VIRTUALE
- Enrollment: 24-03-2023to hour 12:00 on
07-04-2023 - Subject area: Soft skill, personal and career development|Tools|Tech and society
- Teacher in charge
- POSTELL JAMES CHRISTOPHER
- Credits
- 6
- Hours to attend
- 60
- Prerequisites
To be enrolled in the MSc in Integrated Product Design, MSc Interior and Spatial Design, MSc in Digital and Interaction Design, MSc in Product Service System Design and MSc in Design & Engineering.
- Max. number of students
- 5
- Selection Criteria
- Letter of Motivation, CV, Portfolio (All submitted materials should be submitted in PDF format - Max 5 mb)
- Topics:
- SUSTAINABILITY, forest, living environments, wood design
- Tag
- Environment and land planning, Interior design, Product design, Circular economy, Materials, Manufacturing, Heritage and landscape, Natural resources, Environmental and social sustainability
Description of the initiative
The focus of the course will be in exploring forest and wood in its varying appearancesin scales of landscape architecture, urban design, building design, interior architecture and furniture. We'll also study the importance of forest with a wide scope from biodiversity and production of ecosystem services to economically managed forests and wood building processes and the ethics related to it.
The course introduces students to the different viewpoints about the forest and uses of forest materials and wood. The aim is to give an understanding of the role of forest in:
- preserving biodiversity
- as natural habitat
- water, nutrient and carbon cycle
- climate and erosion regulation
- industrial use of wood
- building with wood
- wellbeing and recreation
Duration
Calendar
Pre-course activities
25.5.2023................Online forest symposium
25.5.-31.7.2023.......Pre-course assignment
Summer school
6.8.............................Kick-off: Registration and get-together
7.8.-18.8...................Workshop at Aalto University campus
13.8...........................Nuuksio social programme
18.8............................Exhibition and closing
19.8...........................Helsinki tour (optional)
Note
The workshop has a fee of 200€. Accommodation in Helsinki city Center is provided and covered by Aalto UniversitySelected students should cover the living costs and the flight tickets.
For further questions please contact me at James.postell@polimi.it or rele@polimi.it .