A Collaborative Approach for Urban Design Education in Light of the Climate Emergency

In this article, Boucsein/Glogar et al. are dedicated to the question how we can collaboratively tackle the effects of the climate emergency on everyday human life in urban spaces and environments. And how we can encourage open dialogue with students and various stakeholders involved in urban transformations. Given the already tangible effects of the climate catastrophe and the projected impact on future generations, the authos an inter-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners at the Professorship of Urban Design at TU Munich, Germany - believe that it is their responsibility in the education at architecture schools to collaboratively focus on such questions. The authors presume that the discipline of urban design, part of most architectural curricula, plays a pivotal role here. However, the amount of research on formalizing collaborative processes tackling the climate catastrophe in architecture and urban design education is scarce; therefore, in this paper the authors aim at contributing to the discussion on how collaboration as a method could be further developed in urban design education, critically examining the various facets and different forms of collaboration in architectural curricula in two case studies.