Course: MUPD01 & MAA01 25/26 Designing for more than Humans Seminar

Ecological Restoration of Urban Spaces

Designing for more than Humans investigates how architecture can actively support biodiversity by re-centering design around non-human life and ecological relationships. The seminar challenges human-centered design paradigms, treating architecture as one element within broader ecosystems where plants, animals, materials, and environmental forces hold equal value. Through theoretical reflection and design experimentation, students explore strategies such as rewilding, designed ecologies, and spatial redistribution of human activity to promote ecological stewardship and multispecies coexistence.