Spring Capstones
URBN PL 219_Spring 2023
Taught by Dana Cuff, Yang Yang, Gustavo Leclerc, and Maite Zubiaurre
TAs: Daniel Rodríguez Mora
View the full syllabus for On-Your-Own: Micro-Urbanisms and Young Pedestrians here
View the full syllabus for Indigenous Immigrant Pockets of Resistance and Affirmation: El Corredor Oaxaqueño & El Corredor Maya here
The UHI program concludes with design research-oriented capstone courses in the Spring, where students employ the urban theories and research methods learned during the Fall and Winter quarters. The Capstone courses offered this Spring focus on strategic urban interventions at the scale of the local in two distinct contexts, Shanghai and Los Angeles.
Winter Methods Workshops
AUD 289_Winter 2023
Taught by Doga Tekin, Rebecca Smith, Lisa Marr, Paolo Davanzo, Sandra de la Loza, Elva Yanez, and Gustavo Leclerc
TAs: Daniel Rodríguez Mora
UH students took on sequence three research methods workshops during the Winter quarter. Working with artists, filmmakers, and community activists, UH students were introduced to experimental filmmaking (Filmic Sensing), art and art process as activism (Spatial Ethnography), and sound narratives (Podcasting) to explore different “ecologies” of Los Angeles and create compelling urban narratives around spatial justice issues.
The Architecture of Seven Ecologies II: Engaged Urban Theory and Praxis in Los Angeles
AUD 298-9_Fall 2022
Taught by Gustavo Leclerc
TA: Daniel Rodríguez Mora
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The UHI program starts with an urban theory and praxis seminar focusing on Los Angeles taught by Gustavo Leclerc. The seminar The Architecture of Seven Ecologies: Engaged Urban Theory and Praxis in Los Angeles looks at the city as a paradigmatic site of social upheaval, political resistance and progressivism, demographic change, and cultural experimentation and expression.
Spring Capstones
URBN PL 219_Spring 2022
Taught by Dana Cuff, Gustavo Leclerc, Maite Zubiaurre, Anastasia Loukaitu-Sideris, and Todd Presner
TAs: Kate Taylor-Hasty, Miranda Hirujo-Rincón and Andres F. Ramirez
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Three capstones invite members of the UHI 2021-22 cohort to engage in subject matter and specific research methodologies as well as skills that stand to enhance and inspire their urban humanities practices.
Winter Methods Workshops
AUD 289_Winter 2022
Taught by Lucas Reiner, Heather Seybolt, Yoh Kowano, Francesco Siqueros, and Gustavo Leclerc
TA: Kate Taylor-Hasty
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Four workshops invite members of the UHI 2021-22 cohort to engage in subject matter and specific research methodologies as well as skills that stand to enhance and inspire their urban humanities practices.
The Architecture of Seven Ecologies III: Engaged Urban Theory and Praxis in Los Angeles
AUD 298-9_Fall 2021
Professor: Gustavo Leclerc
TA: Kate Taylor-Hasty
via ZOOM
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The weekly seminar and two research methods workshops open a field of scholarly inquiry to explore broad topics of urban theory and praxis in the context of Los Angeles, a city that is paradigmatic as a site of social upheaval, political resistance and progressivism, demographic change, and cultural experimentation and expression.
Spring Capstones
AUD 289-10_Spring 2021
Professors: Dana Cuff, Gustavo Leclerc, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Maite Zubiaurre, Ursula Heise, Bharat Venkat
TA: Cassandra Hoeprich
via ZOOM
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Five capstones invite members of the UHI 2021-22 cohort to engage in subject matter and specific research methodologies as well as skills that stand to enhance and inspire their urban humanities practices.
Methods Workshops
AUD 289-3_Winter 2021
Professor: Gustavo Leclerc
TA: Cassandra Hoeprich
via ZOOM
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Four methods workshops invite members of the UHI 2021-22 cohort to engage in subject matter and specific research methodologies as well as skills that stand to enhance and inspire their urban humanities practices. In addition to the methods workshops, we will convene several times throughout the quarter to partake in film screenings, seminars, and other formats that invite reflection and critique of the broader field of urban humanities.
The Architecture of Seven Ecologies II: Engaged Urban Theory and Praxis in Los Angeles
AUD 289-10_Fall 2020
Professor: Gustavo Leclerc
TA: Cassandra Hoeprich
via ZOOM
View the full syllabus here
To situate the commons is a humanist practice that builds a public, identifies a public sphere, creates collectivity, or sets the terms of shared space. Borders and sanctuaries are fundamentally cultural and socio-political constructs, by which inside and out, safe and perilous, ours and not-yours, welcome and hostile are defined not only by policy and behavior, but by physical means.