The Digital Design in Sustainable Urbanism course has now begun at the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere School of Architecture, Finland. The course goes on for 8 consecutive weeks and is taught by architect Toni Österlund. The course is directed towards international Master’s students of 4th-5th year.
During this course the students will learn to build parametric models of urban environment and critically test different sustainability parameters appropriate in different kind of urban planning and design situations. The students will learn to connect geometric elements with external design and environmental parameters in databases. On this course various digital design and analysis methods are taught at the scale of urban planning and design. Methods are based on learning basic parametric design tools (Grasshopper). Special focus is set on exploring the design principles of sustainability, which are sought, tested and applied on different urban scales from individual city blocks to regional systems.