MaHS-MaUSP

Geschiedenis

Urban metabolisms are under extreme pressure. Urban inequity is on the rise. Design practice, spatial planning and urban studies more generally are in urgent need of renewed approaches, not only to tackle social exclusion, unequal distribution of resources and spatial contradictions, but also to be inspired by the multiple and (trans)cultural expressions of city-making world-wide. The MaHS and MaUSP programmes prepare participants for engagement in complex urban transformations by mastering a unique array of skills to deal with the challenges our world faces today. In the course of their experience, participants will develop a broad palette of proficiencies supporting the emergence of a much-needed critical spatial practitioner. Since space is a non-renewable resource with an agency of its own, insights into the way urbanisation patterns are mapped, co-produced and (re)designed are key competences the programmes will ensure. Participants will enrich their knowledge on how to use the performative capacity of existing human settlements and ecologies as the starting point for innovative and sustainable interplays of urbanisation, landscape and infrastructure.

The Postgraduate programs Masters of Human Settlements (MaHS) and Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning (MaUSP) are part of the KULeuven Department of Architecture, Belgium. Visit www.mahsmaus.be for more information