Ecological and Inclusive Urban Design

At a minimum, students can expect to know how to evaluate the built environment through:

1. Understand and apply design thinking principles, in a human centric way, climate resilient way, in a sensitive approach
2. Effectively collect, organise, and analyse data required in the Design Thinking Process – not limiting to ideating, synthesising and formulating solutions
3. Challenges tools and techniques at various stages of Design Thinking process (ie. Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test and Implement) in Urban Planning and Urban Design Projects. Soft skills relating to effective presentations for personable communication in an organised and structured manner. Beyond that, the workshop aspires to equip every students with the importance of integrating empirical data collection. Additionally, emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaborations for a more humancentric approach in tackling complex urban.

Students in Bachelor (3rd year or more advanced), and Master students from following disciplines:
architects, urban designers and planners, urban sociologists, landscape architects, environmental 
engineer, with interest to use or curiosity to discover manual approaches (we will use nonconventional
supports as Arts and Craft models and Photo Novel).

For designers: Basic design applications could help: Adobe Suites etc. even if the workshop will be about
models and hand-work.
For sociologists: no design tools required

Pauline Gaudry and Elodie Vittu

Your application should be submitted until November 2nd, 2025. 

Required application documents:

• Letter of Nomination (applicants financed by the BIP scholarship from the partner universities)
• CV
• Letter of motivation or a short motivation video (max. 1min)
• Portfolio
• English language certificate (test certificate or a letter from your university stating your English language knowledge)

The course fee is 300 EURO and includes:

• Orientation & Support
• Programme according to description
• Teaching materials
• Certificate
• Free use of library

The course fee does not include:

• Travel costs
• Accommodation
• Insurance
   

Participants, coming from the partner universites in the framework of Erasmus BIP scholarship and BUW students don't pay the course fee.

In addition to the Spring School courses, we offer a comprehensive "Service Package", which includes participation in the excursions and social programme, free entrance to the museums, shuttle-service on the day of arrilval and lunch (from Mon - Fri) in the student cafeteria. The booking of the Service Package for €70 is optional.
 
Students who do not take up the Service Package are automatically required to pay a course deposit of €100. This is to protect us against costs incurred by non-participation. Since in this case, the universities will not receive any funding from the European Commission. The deposit will be refunded as soon as the participants start the course in Weimar.

Please note our terms and conditions (admission conditions, cancellation conditions etc.)
 

3 ECTS
BUW students: please check with the academic programme coordinator for credit recognition.