Admission requirements
Description
This course explores the relationship between digitality and urbanism across Asia. Bringing together spatiality – ideas such as territory, place, scale, and mobility – alongside digitality – understood through materials, aesthetics, discourses, and logics – the course examines contemporary urbanism in Asia and Asia’s urban futures. From migration to labour, gender to governance, and the spectacular to the mundane, we will explore how cities in Asia are developing in the digital era, the problems Asian cities are facing, and the ways in which residents, governments, and corporations are reproducing cities in various ways.
The course will introduce conceptual frameworks through which urbanism, spatiality, and digitality can be understood, but understands cities as socially produced assemblages and networks made up of a variety of human and non-human actors. While the course will examine top-down perspectives towards the city, it is also very much grounded in how the city is reproduced and contested by everyday people. To explore the intersection of urbanism and digitality the course includes case studies from across Asia and also explores the relationship Asian cities have to contexts elsewhere in the world.
Course objectives
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
Understand the factors that cause cities in Asia to develop along a variety of trajectories;
Highlight the roles that digital technologies and and do play in urbanism;
Highlight key theories and concepts in urban studies and human geography;
Conduct independent and group research projects while further developing written and oral communication skills for both presentations and essays.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Assessment method
Assessment
Group project and presentations (40%)
Research paper proposal 1000 words (10%)
Individual research paper 4000 words (50%)
Weighing
Resit
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Registration À la carte education, Contract teaching and Exchange
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of À la carte education (without taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of Contract teaching (with taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office Herta Mohr