History of town planning on the internet
Abstract
The Chair of History of Urban Planning at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) in the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture wishes, in the context of adapting curricula to Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes, to extend its teaching tools with an interactive learning environment. Via independent learning facilitated by the latest technology, with the help of this learning environment architecture students working on drafts will be able to better understand history as a humanities discipline and its intellectual sources of inspiration, and at the same time practise the realisation of urban planning concepts.
In a project phase lasting ca. 18 months nine exercise sequences, related to the structure and content of the classroom sessions, will be prepared, tested, evaluated and finally implemented for each of the Bachelor’s degree lecture series I+II. Here the interdisciplinary team of the Chair will be assisted by ETH-NET, which will make available the suitable learning application; the ETHZ Centre for Teaching and Learning (DiZ); and an evaluation specialist from the eQuality working group, University of Zurich.
The four sample exercises which accompany the application, plus a matrix presenting the concept and questions types, give an insight into cognitive objectives and discipline-specific methods.