ARCH464 FOODSCAPE NARRATIVES
| Course Code: | 1200464 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. GİZEM DENİZ GÜNERİ SÖĞÜT |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
In the past two decades, the subject of urbanism has gone under a revised and fertile interrogation within design culture. This laid the latent capacity of the field to embrace a wide array of issues of the urban milieu bare. This course, dwelling on the interactions between people and urban space through the specific framework of food, aims to bring emergent forms of critical research and narrative into discussion. Touching upon issues ranging from food’s relationship with urban form and identity to gastronomic traditions, from emergent food cultures to hunger in the digital age, it intends to make room for original, provocative questions and conceptualizations of food-specific urban production.
To this end, the course exploits videography as a critical means of analysis, synthesis, and narrative. It aims to extend understandings of movement, event, and experience of time in urban space. It also intends to manifest distinctive and radical ways of thinking about food at various operational levels centering on everyday life and practices of urbanites.
Course Content
This course, dwelling on the interactions between people and urban space through the specific framework of Food, aims to bring emergent forms of critical research and narrative into discussion. Touching upon issues ranging from foods relationship with urban form and identity to gastronomic traditions, from emergent food cultures to hunger in the digital age, it intends to make room for original provocative questions and conceptualizations of food specific urban production.
Course Learning Outcomes
Three ambitions guiding the course curriculum:
- To develop a holistic understanding of urbanism’s myriad of meanings through the specific framework of food.
- To treat the urban in landscape terms.
- To practice topic-based research.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to establish connections between the discipline of architecture and its related areas of competence, with the cultural and social aspects of architectural production. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Gaining, evaluating and applying the technical, aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the knowledge and values of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Making analysis and synthesis of data by employing theories, methods and currents of thought that aid in the identification and solution of architectural design problems. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Developing creative and original ideas into the stages of theoretical design, projects, application and evaluation of architectural services and realizing them independently as well as in a team. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being able to effectively use the traditional and digital communication technologies and visual expression tools. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Providing leadership to achieve synthesis through a productive coordination of the scientists and professionals of different disciplines taking part in the formation of the built environment. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being open to lifelong education by internalizing world experiences related to architectural thought and applications and following new developments. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Understanding the requirements of environmental, cultural and economic sustainability in both global and local scales and considering them in all professional activities. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Defending the society's rights to shelter, within nature and city applying universal principles and resisting applications that are against professional ethics and laws while creating unique solutions and putting them into practice. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution