Department's Design 1. - BMEEPUIQ601 - 2024/25/2
DEPARTMENT'S DESIGN 1 (BMEEPUIQ601)
Practical design course of the 6th semester of the Integrated Master and elective for exchange students.
Classes: Thursday 14.15-17.00This practice-based course aims to raise students’ awareness of the complexity of urban space and deepen their sensitivity to how people encounter and appropriate the built environment. Unlike regular design studios, the subject of the tasks is not a building: you have to use your design skills to discover and communicate “real urban stories” based on techniques of creative observations.
The target area of this semester is a legendary street in downtown Budapest, Népszínház utca (that means Pepole’s theatre street if simply translated), an area full of different social and thnic groups, controversies, joy and sadness, misery and hope, and great versatility of human use.
Throughout the semester, you are asked to collect fragments of everyday life in the form of short videos collected from the site. Then you have to edit, order and process your material and create four short documentary movies based on given themes.
Through the exercises, you learn tools for studying urban life on-site and means of visualizing processes and activities happening in the city. The technical skills learnt in this course can be effectively applied during the presentation of any further design project. However, the main objective of the tasks is to make students acquire the paradigm of thinking about the built environment as concrete reality instead of pure abstraction.