New Pedagogies: An Atlas of Radical Ruralism

Beginning with a historical survey — from agrarian utopias to O.M. Ungers’ "Kommunen in der Neuen Welt" (1972) — the course examines how rural space has been imagined, structured, and contested through design. Students engage in collective research exercises, working together to study land-based projects such as regenerative farms, communes, Indigenous land rematriation, and cooperative living experiments. Emphasizing collaboration over individual authorship, the course invites students to map, document, and theorize spatial practices rooted in social and environmental justice. Weekly discussions, group readings, and shared fieldwork methods support the creation of a collective "atlas" of alternative rural futures. Final contributions — drawings, texts, zines and models — form the basis of a public exhibition and living archive. 

This seminar is open to students in architecture, landscape, urbanism, and related fields invested in critical spatial practice.