Discover the 'Metropolitan Landscape' Diploma Program by Tec de Monterrey + Architectural Association

Tec de Monterrey, in collaboration with the Architectural Association (AA), is launching a new certificate program titled Metropolitan Landscapes / Escenarios Metropolitanos. This program combines Tec's commitment to urban development with the AA's experimental tradition, addressing the emergence of a metropolitan discipline worldwide.

Based in Mexico (Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey) and the United Kingdom (London), the program explores the visionary role that design can play within the so-called "urban age" and "Anthropocene epoch," given the scale of global urbanization processes. To do so, it utilizes the latest urban, critical, technological, ecological, and landscape concepts to shape the discipline.

Skills to develop

• Understand the potential of the metropolitan discipline to direct the design, governance, and management of large urban agglomerations involved in complex urbanization processes.

• Incorporate emerging technologies to address the primary challenges of metropolises: technologies in cartographic practices (drone surveys, interactive GIS mapping) and simulation of metropolitan dynamics (simulations of landforms and urban flows).

• Meet and engage with practicing professionals and academics in Mexico and the United Kingdom who participate in the development of the discipline.

• Travel to London for two weeks to attend urbanism workshops, participate in meetings with local authorities, and visit sites of interest. (*Optional trip)

• Tackle the contemporary challenges of today's world, such as climate change, urban migration, new technologies, urban sprawl, governance, metropolitan coordination, among others.

• Analyze how to integrate ecology and landscape models, concepts, and practices with the latest trends in planning, governance, and management.

Objective

To strengthen your knowledge and professional leadership in the urban field through tools, innovative methodologies, and critical thinking, contributing to the development of metropolitan planning across various disciplines while highlighting the power of design.

Benefits

• Learn the most relevant theoretical concepts and methods related to urbanization processes and the metropolitan discipline.
• Engage in dialogue and learn from the experience of national and international experts and academics participating in the development of the discipline.
• The opportunity to travel to London for two weeks to attend workshops at the AA, participate in meetings with local authorities, and visit sites of interest.
• You will be prepared to tackle the contemporary challenges of today's world: climate change, urban migration, new technologies, urban sprawl, governance, metropolitan coordination, among others.
• You will receive a diploma issued by Tec de Monterrey and the Architectural Association, institutions of great international prestige.

Target Audience

Graduates or final-year students of architecture, urban design, planning, public policy, geography, civil engineering, environmental engineering, and related fields.

Program Content

The Metropolitan Landscape certificate program consists of six modules, totaling 96 hours of learning with instructors from Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Architectural Association. In addition, four design workshops will be conducted.

Module 1. Introduction to Metropolitan Landscapes (16 hours)
This module is dedicated to understanding metropolitan phenomena and the challenges we face, using case study analysis.

1. Metropolitan areas and metropolitan challenges: global regions and urbanizations
2. The role of design and public policy in shaping metropolitan landscapes

Module 2. Introduction to Landscape and Ecology in the Metropolitan Context (16 hours)
We will explore ecology as a theoretical framework to address the complex aspects of the contemporary city.

1. Landscape and ecology in the metropolitan context
2. Green infrastructure design: water management as a case study

Module 3. Incorporating New Technologies into the Metropolitan Discipline (16 hours)
We will utilize software and tools for the study, analysis, and design of metropolitan projects.

1. Cartographic practices in urban planning (drones, GIS, and interactive maps)
2. Simulation technologies for metropolitan dynamics.

Module 4. Consequential Landscapes: Urban-Rural Interdependence (16 hours)
We will study the relationship between urban and rural environments, as well as the dynamics and potential of rural territories.

1. Interdependence of urban and rural areas
2. Urban metabolism
3. Neo-ruralism

Module 5. Management and Governance (16 hours)
We will study regulatory instruments and tools for participatory design.

1. Politics as metropolitan design
2. Collaborative economies
3. Participatory platforms

Module 6. Design Workshop (2 weeks at the Architectural Association, London)
We will visit the Architectural Association school as well as key sites of interest, exploring creative concepts in design workshops.

1. Visits with metropolitan authorities in London
2. Initiation of urban prototypes in workshops
3. Visit to Hooke Park

Module 7. Urban Prototypes (16 hours)

1. Practical application
2. Workshops and advising

For more information, visit "Metropolitan Landscapes" Certificate Program