Study programme 2023-2024Français
Cities and companies
Programme component of Master's in Architecture (MONS) (day schedule) à la Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning

CodeTypeHead of UE Department’s
contact details
Teacher(s)
UA-M2-ARCHIT-009-MCompulsory UEPOULEUR Jean-AlexandreA530 - Service d'Architecture et Société
  • POULEUR Jean-Alexandre

Language
of instruction
Language
of assessment
HT(*) HTPE(*) HTPS(*) HR(*) HD(*) CreditsWeighting Term
  • Français
Français32100022.001st term

AA CodeTeaching Activity (AA) HT(*) HTPE(*) HTPS(*) HR(*) HD(*) Term Weighting
A-ARSO-505Cities and Society321000Q1100.00%

Programme component

Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

  • Instruct a question on architecture and urban planning
    • Develop teamwork
    • Consolidate their architectural and urban culture with a research approach
    • Finalise architecture and urban planning projects adapted to a context
    • Identify the different working hypotheses in relation to an architecture or town planning problem
    • Coordinate the various disciplines related to regional planning across the board
    • Master the contemporary societal challenges of spatial planning
  • Develop an identified spatial response
    • Demonstrate innovation and creativity in constantly evolving situations
    • Adopt an applied scientific approach
  • Interact with all actors
    • Contribute to the development of knowledge and its dissemination to the public or professionals
    • Integrate and work in a team
    • Integrate actors' different expectations related to architecture, urban planning and spatial planning
    • Develop management and governance skills specific to architectural and urban processes
  • Make choices
    • Demonstrate reflexivity, openness and initiative
    • Demonstrate ethical values
    • Demonstrate independence of thought and action.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Understand and implement the project; research or critique certain concepts and methods of the city and society. This course is particularly based around issues of governance and project, citizen involvement, representation of the city, and urban and rural images in the current context of sustainable development. These questions are tackled in order to help understand how to react regarding aspects of governance. This course could open opportunities to develop a PhD.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The course aims above all the participation of academics in sustainable development in the sense of the UN:
Particularly its goal #1 of sustainable development aiming at the eradication of poverty, but also the fight against climate change, energy, the reduction of inequalities, gender equality... all for health and well-being through the care of living places. More details see Learning Activity

Prior Experience

Not applicable

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

AAType of Teaching Activity/Activities
A-ARSO-505
  • Cours magistraux
  • Exercices dirigés

Mode of delivery

AAMode of delivery
A-ARSO-505
  • Hybrid

Required Reading

AARequired Reading
A-ARSO-505Note de cours - Villes et sociétés : Les images de la ville, durables? - Jean-Alexandre Pouleur

Required Learning Resources/Tools

AARequired Learning Resources/Tools
A-ARSO-505POULEUR Jean-Alexandre, BIOUL A.-C , ROCHET N.., Les images de la ville, durable?, Espace Environnement, Charleroi, 2010.

Recommended Reading

AARecommended Reading
A-ARSO-505Note de cours - Partie 3 - « Représenter le vécu des quartiers populaires questionne trois fondements de la discipline architecturale : deux quartiers du Hainaut transfrontalier révélateurs », SociologieS - Larissa Romariz Peixoto, Noémie Lago, Ornella Vanzande et Jean-Alexandre Pouleur
,Note de cours - Partie 2 - La participation numérique en urbanisme, une simple amplification des processus existants ? - Pouleur, Lago, Scouveau et Simoens

Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

AARecommended Learning Resources/Tools
A-ARSO-505COING Henri, Rénovation urbaine et changement social, Éd. Ouvrière, 1967.
HALBWACHS M., La mémoire collective, Éd. P.U.F., Paris, 1950 (1e éd. posthume).
LÉVI-STRAUSS C., Tristes Tropiques, Éd. Plon, 1955.
LYNCH K., L'image de la Cité, Poitiers, Éd. Dunod, 1985 (1969 (tr. de The Image of The City, the MIT presse 1960)).
MAGNAGHI Alberto, Le projet local, Éd. Mardaga, Liège, 2003 (2000 : Il Progetto locale), 128 p.

Other Recommended Reading

AAOther Recommended Reading
A-ARSO-505Not applicable

Grade Deferrals of AAs from one year to the next

AAGrade Deferrals of AAs from one year to the next
A-ARSO-505Authorized

Term 1 Assessment - type

AAType(s) and mode(s) of Q1 assessment
A-ARSO-505
  • Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted online
  • Oral examination - Remote
  • Oral presentation - Remote

Term 1 Assessment - comments

AATerm 1 Assessment - comments
A-ARSO-505See UE.

Resit Assessment - Term 1 (B1BA1) - type

AAType(s) and mode(s) of Q1 resit assessment (BAB1)
A-ARSO-505
  • N/A - Néant

Term 3 Assessment - type

AAType(s) and mode(s) of Q3 assessment
A-ARSO-505
  • Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted in class
  • Oral examination - Face-to-face
  • Oral presentation - Face-to-face

Term 3 Assessment - comments

AATerm 3 Assessment - comments
A-ARSO-505See UE.
(*) HT : Hours of theory - HTPE : Hours of in-class exercices - HTPS : hours of practical work - HD : HMiscellaneous time - HR : Hours of remedial classes. - Per. (Period), Y=Year, Q1=1st term et Q2=2nd term
Date de dernière mise à jour de la fiche ECTS par l'enseignant : 01/06/2023
Date de dernière génération automatique de la page : 11/05/2024
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