Inhabitable Territories - Teaching

Inhabitable Territories is an research seminar that investigates unplanned and liminal urban spaces through analysis, representation, and collective knowledge-building. Anchored in case studies from various Asian and alpine contexts, the seminar develops methodologies for reading residual and manufactured landscapes shaped by informal use, infrastructure, and everyday practices. Students analyze territories through a series of layers—voids, boundaries, composition, temporality, and ritual—conducting site surveys and drawings. A key outcome of the seminar is the production of a series of Atlases, each year focusing on a specific type of urban threshold. Conceived as a shared educational resource, the seminar positions inhabitation as a critical lens for urban research and design.