[ARIT1512] Delta, Infrastructure & Environment Design

Learning objectives

Because this course is dedicated to the PhD’s working in interdisciplinary and international research projects the group will be divided over the two locations. In Japan the collaborative partner is Tsukuba University and societal partners from the Inbanuma Swamp area. In Vietnam we work within a project by PBL (environmental agency) and the University of Vietnam. The activities in the course are with both groups together aiming at discussion and vision making within the realm of political ecology, training in the collaborative interdisciplinary design process and content related activities to the projects in Japan and Vietnam. After a general program and preparation both projects will be visited in an intesive fieldtrip in hwich we organise workshops with local students to enable inclusion of the understanding what resilience from their particular cultural point of view. Each discipline will perform their own analysis, how they asses the problems and potentials in the case area, and how from a disciplinary perspective they would resolve these problems or utilize the qualities. With careful developed methodologies the processes of the different disciplines will be synchronized and synthesized into an interdisciplinary design via collective development of value system and shared goals. The group design will be worked out into the disciplinary fields on their scales (architecture a building, landscape a landscape, geo science a model of understanding, water management a circular water plan etc etc.)