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Studio 787 Metropolitan Dynamics by Lanfei Liu

Project Description

Metropolitan Dynamics Studio: This course will help you establish and continue to build a foundation of urban ecology knowledge as the basis for your design interventions in urban landscapes.  In this course, you will use urban ecology to help you:   envision metropolitan development and urban design across scales, use your understanding of environmental function to contribute to spatial decisions, use your understanding of cultural values and social norms to propose more sustainable landscape patterns, think beyond distinct categories of natural and developed landscapes, private and public land, brownfields and greenfields, open space and developed land, high density and low density.   The course asks you to consider the possibilities for design intervention in an urban place dynamic in which the landscape is constantly and simultaneously changing at different scales that have different but related drivers. This urban place dynamic includes ecological, atmospheric, hydrological and geological factors; global trade and financial markets; water, waste, energy, communication, and transportation infrastructure maintenance and construction; fate and transport of pollutants and contaminants; economic use, design, development, occupancy and management, and abandonment of landscapes by different communities and for different purposes; and different aesthetic, spiritual, and cultural interpretations and interventions by people who “own” the place in different ways.  Among these drivers is design – not only as an intervention in this dynamic - but also as an imaginative proposal that inherently opens possibilities for future landscapes.

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Lanfei Liu

SEAS Faculty Advisor
Joan Iverson Nassauer
Client Organization
City of Ann Arbor
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University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
Dana Building
440 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(734) 764-6453
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