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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Architecture |
| Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura |
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| Basic Habitat |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Basic Habitat | Code | 630G02062 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fifth | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Presentation of the subject | Organization, objectives and evaluation. The place of the subject in the Plan of Studies and the content in the exercise of the professions of the field of architecture. |
| 2. Presentation of the course | Explanation of the course's argument: work dynamics, objectives. Proposal of the first "Case study" as a methodological try. |
| 3. Conceptualization | Concepts of basic habitability and basic habitat. Basic Habitability and Basic Habitat in the world and in history. Recognition of exemplary cases. |
| 4. Basic Habitability as a process | Transversal approaches in Basic Habitability: gender, human rights and environment. Economic strategies of Basic Habitability. |
| 5. Actors | a) Architecture professionals: utopians, insurgents and accomplices. Pro bono activity b) Specialized operators: NGOs and global agencies. c) People: Citizen participation; from beneficiaries to self-managers. |
| 6. Architectural tactics | a) From design: growth, perfectibility, compartibility, versatility. b) From production: DIY, assisted construction, squatter, cession of use, social housing ... |
| 7. Technologies | a) Comfort and stability of the building. b) Human health and sustainability. |
| 8. Basic Habitat | a) The non-formal city: morphology, management strategies, construction and use. b) Global commitments to Basic Habitat: the Chart of Quito and the Habitat Summits. The 2030 agenda, the SDG. c) The right to the city: from Lefevbre to Harvey. |
| 9. Singular habitabilities | Emergency, right to use, homelessness and squatter |
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