MODELLING URBAN SPACE WORKSHOP

Estonian Academy of Arts
Tallinn, Estonia
january 8-18 2007

Week 1: Social Positioning / Tagging Tallinn

Tue January 9: Preparatory Day

18.00 - 20.30 Screenings of interesting, urban videos by Estonian architects and students

EKA hall 412

Wed January 10: Lecture day at EKA Auditorium

10.00 Opening of the Intensive Course, prof. Panu Lehtovuori, EKA Urban Studies

10.15 prof. Mauri Kaipainen, Tallinn University: Soft Ontologies

12.00 Lunch

13.30 prof. Rein Ahas, Human Geography, University of Tartu:
Mobile positioning data in urban studies. Social Positioning Method and Live Maps
15.00 Discussion

15.15 Coffee
15.45 Architect Ülar Mark, Urban Mark Architects: Mobile positioning in urban planning

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17.30 – 18.30 Tagging Tallinn
workshop start-up, organising groups and tasks

Thu January 11: Tagging Tallinn workshop

TAGGIN' TALLINN links:

• Workshop instructions
• Mauri Kaipainen slide presentation
• Taggin Tallinn wiki discussion
  

Work in groups

15.00 – 17.00 common tutoring session, Lilia del Rio, Panu Lehtovuori, Kalle Komissarov

EKA hall 412

Fri January 12: Tagging Tallinn workshop

12.00 – 14.00 Interim critique.

Mauri Kaipainen, Ülar Mark, Kalle Komissarov, Lilia del Rio, Panu Lehtovuori

EKA hall 412

Sat January 13: Tagging Tallinn workshop

Work in groups

Week 2: Space Syntax and Sims

Mon January 15: Lecture day

12.00 - 13.30 Tagging Tallinn workshop wrap-up and discussion

14.15 - 15.30 prof. Anssi Joutsiniemi, Tampere University of Technology: Modelling urban space 1. Configurations and simulations. EKA Room 412

15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break

15.45 – 17.15 Anssi Joutsiniemi. Modelling urban space 2. Using movement sequences to model metropolitan scale configurations. EKA Room 119b

17.15 – 18.30 Space Syntax workshop start-up
Alain Chiaradia, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Mauri Kaipainen, Lilia del Rio, Kalle Komissarov, Panu Lehtovuori

SpaceSyntax website

Tue January 16: Space Syntax workshop

Work in groups

Tutoring by Alain Chiaradia and Anssi Joutsiniemi

Wed January 17: Lecture day at EKA Auditorium

In the morning work in groups (Room 412)

Tutoring by Alain Chiaradia and Anssi Joutsiniemi

14.00 prof. Alain Chiaradia, London: Theory of Space Syntax, links between social and spatial configurations (double lecture)

17.00 Discussion, led by prof. Anssi Joutsiniemi

18.00 Coffee

18.30 – 19.30 Space Syntax workshop interim critique
Alain Chiaradia, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Kalle Komissarov, Panu Lehtovuori

Thu January 18: Space Syntax workshop

Work in groups. Tutoring by Alain Chiaradia

Fri January 19: Space Syntax workshop and closure

10.00 – 12.00 Space Syntax wrap-up and discussion EKA hall 412
Alain Chiaradia, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Kalle Komissarov, Panu Lehtovuori, Lilia del Rio
14.00 + Cleaning the room, burning cds
16.00 - 18.00Taggin' Tallinn Design group meeting
18.00 + Winding down evening.