Intended learning outcomes:
1. To become familiar with common qualitative research methods used in public space and public life observation.
2. To recognise and categorise placemaking approaches to transit space projects.
3. To understand the challenges and critiques related to placemaking projects including specific case studies in transport settings.
4. To collaborate with others in the analysis of placemaking projects that engage different stakeholders and affect urban transitions.

This course introduces basic concepts in place-making and urban design, including public space and public life observations, inclusive approaches to urban design and case studies in placemaking. The course provides fundamental knowledge on the interconnections between urban design (in its different forms), users and uses of public space. Students learn through lectures, invited speakers, group work, readings, direct observation, creation of analytical drawings and case studies presentation. The course is structured in thematic classes that combine one lecture-based session and a tutorial session for group work and/or field trips.

The assignment will require students to familiarise themselves with placemaking approaches applied to transport settings through case studies of street experiments/play streets/open streets in China and internationally.

The course will be structured around 40-minute PowerPoint lectures or tutorials followed by 40-minute in‐class studio work on assignments/fieldwork.
The course will be structured around two units:
1) Public life and mapping it;
2) Urban challenges, urban design and placemaking approaches.

This module is delivered overseas and is not available to students based at the UCD Belfield or UCD Blackrock campuses.

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

Not yet recorded.