http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucb_guh_fhl_courses/rss Recent eScholarship items from Courses Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:21:41 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80b0k814 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;&nbsp;Ghigo DiTommaso, Erika Chong Shuch</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2015</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Landscape Architecture&nbsp;254 / Theater, Dance, Performance Studies&nbsp;266</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>The disciplines of environmental design and of performance both focus on bodies and space, but their teaching methods are often siloed.</p><p>In this graduate theory course, Public Space: Placemaking and Performance, taught by choreographer and performance maker Erika Chong Shuch and urban designer Ghigo DiTommaso, students from disciplines ranging from anthrolopogy to architecture to dance were asked to research notions of public space using methods from both performance and design.</p><p>The results yielded important insights into public space. Perhaps even more importantly, the pedagogical benefits of incorporating exercises such as movement and drawing in disciplines where they are not usually included became clear.</p><p>As one of the earliest classes... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80b0k814 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dg176c3 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Greg Niemeyer,&nbsp;Ronald Rael</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2014</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Architecture 229 / Art Practive 229 / New Media 202</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>The rise of digital media and related technologies are rapidly reshaping how cities are planned and managed, and how people experience the urban environment on a daily basis. Environmental sensors, video cameras, electronic data collection, digital maps, satellite photography, and drones (to name a few) are involved in urban service delivery, traffic analysis and control, public safety, wayfinding, monitoring weather and climate events and more.</p><p>This graduate methods studio, Sensing Cityscapes, was led by art practitioner and new media expert Greg Niemeyer and architect and 3-D fabrication innovator Ron Rael. The studio included students from a variety of disciplines including architecture, information science, archeology, public health, geography, city planning, and performance studies.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dg176c3 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9954m64v <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Laura Belik</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2018</p><p>Course #: Laura Belik</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9954m64v Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wf8f0n7 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Susan Moffat</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2016</p><p>Course #: CYPLAN 290, RHE 244</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wf8f0n7 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mk213mv <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Susan Moffat</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2014</p><p>Course #: CYPLAN 298, RHE 244</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mk213mv Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4347c3cg <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Kevin Block</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2017</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYPLAN&nbsp;198 &amp; 298, RHE 198 &amp; 244</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4347c3cg Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rv680fr <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Melody Chang</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2021</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYPLAN 198 &amp; 290, RHE 198 &amp; 295</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rv680fr Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dc4t2wz <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Ronald Rael, Stephanie Syjuco</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2018</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Architecture&nbsp;209 / Art Practice 209</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Mexican citizens have long crossed into the US through the southern border, with numbers of undocumented people from many other parts of the world joining the migrant flow. The many salient human and political dimensions of this flow drew graduate students from a variety of disciplines – architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, art practice, urban design, education, and real estate – to join the graduate interdisciplinary research studio, Borderwall Urbanism, led by architect Ron Rael and artist Stephanie Syjuco. Based on studio-style pedagogy, unfamiliar to many students, the course exposed them to a learning model based on teamwork, frequent iteration of ideas and multi-media work products, and continuous feedback instructors and fellow students.</p><p>In this studio, students studied the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dc4t2wz Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7685c7cq <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Greg Castillo, Scott Saul</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2020</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;American Studies 102 / Environmental Design 109</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Cities of the East Bay, such as Oakland and Berkeley, were well-known as centers of political, social, and cultural activist in the 1960s. But less well known is the fact that the East Bay continued to be a site of radical movements throughout 1970s.</p><p>The undergraduate studio, East Bay Revolution, was led by Professor of English Scott Saul and Professor of Architecture Greg Castillo, both experts on local social, political, and countercultural movements in the Bay Area and beyond. They immersed students in archival place-based research related to the history of East Bay activism of the 1960s and 1970s. These students came from diverse fields of study - American Studies, Urban Studies, History, Music, Architecture, Geography, Art Practice, and Conservation and Resource Studies.</p><p>Drawing on... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7685c7cq Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q5483w3 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Weihong Bao, Michael Dear</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2014</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYPLAN 291, FILM 240, CHINESE 280</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>More than half the world’s population live in cities, resulting in a huge variety of urban forms, cultures, politics, problems and conflicts. Many academic disciplines – ranging from the urban social sciences to history and environmental design – have traditionally taken ‘the city’ as their object of study. More recently, the field of cinema studies has focused on explorations of cities as portrayed and imagined across times, places and cultures.</p><p>This graduate research seminar, The City and its Moving Images, was led by city planner and geographer Michael Dear and Wei Hong Bao, an expert on film, media, and East Asian languages and cultures. The seminar included students from a variety of disciplines including architecture, film studies, performance studies, and environmental science and policy, and East Asian... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q5483w3 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zv7x6cv <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Walter Hood</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2016</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Landscape Architecture 203 / City Planning 243</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Museums are among the most important urban institutions – repositories of art, culture, and history; educational opportunities; spaces of community dialogue; and hubs of community life. Many graduate students are alert to the role of museums, seek to learn more, and are eager to work with – and learn from – museums, as partners in their explorations.</p><p>In this graduate research studio, Museum and the City, led by landscape architects Walter Hood and Marcus Owens, students from a variety of disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, art practice, and performance studies, worked with the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) on engaging the community in the life of the museum.</p><p>Students studied the origins of OMCA, rooted in Oakland’s Black Power movement and civil rights struggles... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zv7x6cv Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v64g49s <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Jennifer Wolch</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2022</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYP 291</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Many graduate students are keenly&nbsp; interested in urban communities, but many of them miss the opportunity to work directly with community-based partners and/or learn as part of a team working in a studio-based setting.&nbsp;</p><p>In this graduate research studio, Buzz&nbsp; Studio: Planning Equitable Cities for People and Pollinators, led by urban planner and geographer Jennifer Wolch and botanist and landscape architect Maria Fernandez Gonzalez, students from a variety of disciplines worked with Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park (PHHP), located in&nbsp; Oakland’s Fruitvale District, on making the neighborhood greener and more pollinator-friendly.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Students studied the research literature on pollinators – bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and many more – and how to design urban neighborhoods to support them. They also... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v64g49s Thu, 5 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities and Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53m4m68h <p>Instructors:&nbsp;Lauren Kroiz,&nbsp;Andrew Shanken</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2020</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;ARCH 209 / HISTART 290</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>How do cities use the urban public landscape to preserve, represent, and memorialize their histories?&nbsp;</p><p>Nowhere is the “memory industry” that shapes the design of memorial landscapes more powerful and pervasive than in Berlin. This studio focused on the complex links between Berlin’s post-reunification urban renewal program designed to jump-start the city’s urban economy, and efforts to create an urban public landscape commemorating violent histories, collective trauma, and reconciliation. The studio used the lens of memory studies to trace Berlin’s uneasy efforts to attract foreign investment and tourists on the one hand, and create a ‘guilt’ environment marked by the preservation and memorialization of urban sites linked to the Holocaust, colonialism, and the Cold War.</p><p>Led by architectural historian... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53m4m68h Thu, 5 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mh2f2h8 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Lok Siu</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2023</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;ASAMST 190 / HUM C132 / ENVDES C132</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Students in “A Radical History of SF Chinatown: Designing a Digital Tour” worked with two community partners to dig deeply into the rich history of this thriving district in San Francisco and share it with a public audience.</p><p>Project-based learning provides opportunities for students to deepen their research and improve a variety of skills. By preparing a public-facing website, students took responsibility for undertaking research in which accuracy is consequential; for creating writing that is clear and compelling; and for creating visuals that are meaningful and effective in conveying information.</p><p>Students created an interactive map of meaningful locations in Chinatown, giving visitors to the website access to an array of articles they wrote on themes including culture, education, housing, public health and public... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mh2f2h8 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities & Future Histories Lab, UC Berkeley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01f2x1sm <p>Instructors: Anna Livia Brand, Bryan Wagner</p><p>Term: Spring 2019</p><p>Course #: Landscape Architecture 154 / American Studies 102</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>New Orleans: Historical Memory and Urban Design, an interdisciplinary research studio, focused on the ways human history and urban design interact over time. Faculty members Anna Livia Brand (Landscape Architecture) and Bryan Wagner (English) led this undergraduate course, which posed fundamental questions: how are cities designed, and how are such designs reshaped over time – benefiting some residents and neighborhoods while imposing lasting harm on others? How can these multilayered histories be peeled back, allowing the roots of violence and injustice to be revealed and contested? And how might place-based resistance strategies reclaim the past and portend the future?</p><p>This course took students from a variety of academic majors on a journey through the history of New Orleans’ Black communities. They... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01f2x1sm Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities & Future Histories Lab, UC Berkeley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8648n3ws <p>Instructors: Ghigo di Tommaso (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning), Erika Chong Shuch (Theater, Dance &amp; Performance Studies), Susan Moffat (Global Urban Humanities Initiative)</p><p>Term: Spring 2018</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>This case study of the course Siteworks: Understanding Place through Design and Performance may be useful to teachers of urban studies, architecture, landscape architecture, design, theater, dance, and multiple humanities disciplines. This interdisciplinary research studio course combined landscape architecture methods including site analysis, mapping, graphic representation and oral presentation; performance methods including sensory immersion, embodied exercises, and engagement with an audience; and humanities methods including writing and interpretation.</p><p>This case study explains the steps of site analysis, research, and iteration that led to the creation of a site-based performance that aimed... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8648n3ws Thu, 4 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities and Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tx0n16c <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Lincoln Cushing</p><p>Term: Summer 2022</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;HUM C132 / ENVDES C132</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Undergraduates often do not carry out independent archival research until they take upper-division courses, if at all. What would be the impact of introducing incoming freshmen, particularly students who are the first in their families to attend college, to the joys and challenges of handling archival documents?</p><p>In Archiving as Social Justice Practice, professional archivist Lincoln Cushing taught students not just to use archives but to help create them. Following field trips to the storied archives of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley as well as to community-based archives, students helped process materials that became part of the Freedom Archives, a long-established grassroots archive in Berkeley. They handled, selected, and digitized historic protest posters and attached metadata, learning important concepts about the practice... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tx0n16c Thu, 4 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities and Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9966s4vx <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Pablo Gonzalez</p><p>Term: Summer 2021</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;HUM 132AC / ENV DES 132AC / ETHSTD 190AC</p><p>Why read this case study?</p><p>How can new technologies encourage students to observe, research, analyze, and share knowledge about urban environments? Can mapping public protest art and creating augmented reality projects and podcasts inspire students to ask deep questions about power, race, and privilege in urban neighborhoods?</p><p>In the wake of protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, thousands of people gathered in overwhelmingly peaceful protests in Oakland, as across the country. Fearing unrest, many building owners in commercial districts covered ground-floor storefront windows with plywood.</p><p>Local artists used this plywood as canvases to express their outrage and resistance to racism and state violence. These temporary murals were important records of a historic moment when the Black Lives Matter... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9966s4vx Mon, 7 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities and Future Histories Lab