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Master programme
Spatial Ecologies
Field Work observations - Tata Steel Industrial Park, North-Holland, the Netherlands
Field Work Observations - River Transposition, Infrastructural Landscapes, Gujarat, India
Field Work Observations - Urban Complexity, Socio-Environmental Fragility, São Paulo, Brazil
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image of G. lucidum pure mycelium sheet material. Imaged at the Academy's Biolab.
Exhibit at the Planetary Boundaries Exhibition
About 'Spatial Ecologies'
'Spatial Ecologies' understands architecture as a practice grounded in the material, ecological, and cultural layers that shape environments over time.
The programme approaches place not as a passive backdrop, but as a living and historical medium where geological, biological, and social processes intersect. Architecture is framed as the interpretative and constructive act that works these relations through speculative thinking, design and making.
By engaging with political ecologies and the dynamics of extraction, labour, and renewal, the programme encourages students to develop strong material awareness and transcalar methods of inquiry.
Through fieldwork, research, and full-scale experimentation, students learn to work with different temporalities - care, decay, repair -and gain the tools to respond ethically and contextually within conditions of ecological uncertainty and change.
Institute
Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Subject area
Architecture
Head of Programme
Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin
Study level
Master programme
Location
Kalundborg