Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)_ Cities Futures – Interdisciplinary Challenges_on-site course

Under the scope of the project InCITIES, ISCTE is organizing a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)/school pilot entitled Cities Futures – Interdisciplinary Challenges, that will run from the end of October 2024 to January 2025.

Please find below the details of this BIP/school pilot:

What:

•  Cities Futures – Interdisciplinary Challenges, within the wider topic of Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Cities.
•  Based on the principles of the Learning by Developing (LbD) pedagogical model, the BIP/school pilot includes modules, but not only, on:
•  Futurism – cities foresight
•  Information, Data Visualization and Accessibility for User Decision Making
•  Design thinking for envisioning cities futures focused on the LbD challenges
•  Transport innovation – Sustainable Urban Development
•  Human centred Artificial Intelligence
•  Sensing mobility data
•  Intermediate presentations of the challenges proposed by the associated partners
•  Hackathon Future Cities From Vivid Reality: Inclusive and Sustainable and Challenges in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Where:

• Hybrid format with the duration of 12 weeks: 9 online modules (2h each), followed by 1 week on-site (20h) .

When:

• The ISCTE winter school pilot happens in the 1st semester of 2024-2025 academic year and is scheduled for end of October 2024 to January 2025.
• The on-site course in Lisbon will be held on week of 20^th to 24^th of January 2025.

To Whom:

• All educational levels – Target of at least 15 bachelor, master and/or PhD students, including some from partnering institutions (with Erasmus+ BIP travel and accommodation funding).
• The maximum number of students is 30.
• 6 ECTS, i.e. the equivalent of 150 working hours, including reading, attending online and on-site course, related visits, and preparing contributions

Who:

• ISCTE: Coordinator, host, and content provider;
• LAUREA – LbD process support and content provider;
• UNIZA – content provider

 How:  

• ISCTE school pilot focuses on Interdisciplinary Challenges related to Cities Futures towards developing consciousness and agency for building Cities Futures.

• Concrete and authentic real-life challenges proposed by the InCITIES Associated Partners: Comboios de Portugal, Wegenblocks, and Inovar Autismo, through putting in practice the LbD pedagogical model.

• Participants will present the results in the final in-presence session of the Hackathon Future Cities From Vivid Reality: Inclusive and Sustainable and Challenges in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.

More information:

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