Events and Workshops
The MUD program is regularly represented in the Sam Fox School’s annual Public Lecture Series, which brings nationally and internationally recognized architects, artists, designers, landscape architects, urban designers, historians, and critics to campus, promoting new ideas in practice, theory, and technology.
In addition, the MUD program often arranges program-specific opportunities to enrich the curricular experience, including a pair of annual workshops: Informal Cities and The Lively City.
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Informal Cities Workshop
Past Workshop Leaders
2021 Informal Cities
The 2022 workshop kicked off November 4 with a public lecture by Mabe Garcia Rincon.
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
The 2021 workshop kicked off November 12 with a public lecture by Chelina Odbert.
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
2021 Informal Cities
The Lively City Workshop
The Lively City: Behavioral Studies & Public Space Design provides students new perspectives and skills that put people and their needs at the heart of the creative process of re-imagining and transforming cities. Concepts that connote inviting, vibrant, and stimulating urban environments—such as livability, lively cities, and public life—are frequently communicated in new visions for the future of cities, but are the most often unrealized component of design projects. This course provides the opportunity to explore these concepts and reconcile people’s often conflicting needs for privacy and social stimulation within urban areas.
Typically a one-week masterclass, The Lively City has been reconceived as a summer workshop in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Summer 2021
With support from S+G’s Krista Doersch, participants used video analysis techniques developed for the underwater study of kelp in marine biology to analyze the physical properties of Rentemestervej.
Summer 2020
The Lively Cities online panel discussion on July 9, 2020, marked the culmination of a weeklong workshop for MUD students led by visiting professor Oliver Schulze, partner of the Copenhagen-based studio Schulze+Grassov, and Divided City visiting lecturer Mohammed Almahmood, head of research & innovation for Schulze+Grassov, as part of the summer 2020 MUD Global Urbanism Studio.
The event featured presentations of students’ design concepts for tactical urbanism interventions in St. Louis’ Delmar Loop area, as well as responses to those ideas and discussion of where we’re headed from a panel of experts.