Sociological Experiments in Urban Life

This seminar explores the connections between the built environment, society, and human behavior by introducing novel visual and writing experiments that question implicit social interactions in cities. Clustered around the topics of "Everyday Life", "Street Life" and "Urban Life", the experiments will explore hidden patterns of social life in cities and commonplace considerations that unconsciously shape our design and urban choices. While varied in scope, duration and scale, the experiments will each share one key characteristic: they will get students out of the rut of conventional thinking and will stimulate design creativity.