Jascha Grübel

Author: Jascha Grübel

  • ASC: Introduction

     Argumentation and Science Communication will discuss how scientific arguments are made and how they are eventually communicated. The first weeks readings are listed in the references (Bradley & Steele, 2015; Lempert, Nakicenovic, Sarewitz, & Schlesinger, 2004). A particular focus will be on (Mueller, 2010), for which the following questions should be answered: What is a…

  • Urban Design II: Los Angeles

    Today’s topic will be the Urban Design of Los Angeles. The main tools will be top-down infrastructure (Ecology/landscape), fragmented sub-urban (suburbia) and places for experimentation (micro/temporary programs). Los Angeles is a car city. It is the antagonist to New York, the incarnation of the battle between the East and West Coast. Hollywood is located in…

  • IAP: Introduction

    The internet is a global-scale, technically complex artefact of immense international social and political importance. It is formed by the interaction of technical constraints (e.g. speed of light, number of addresses), usage models and behaviour, technological design choices and policy decisions. This course will focus on the Internet and other networks will only marginally be…

  • CSD: Introduction

    The course “Cognition in Studio Design – analytic tools for evidence-based design” will discuss readings of space syntax (Bafna, 2003) , navigation issues (Carlson, Hölscher, Shipley, & Dalton, 2010) as well as functions and applications of spatial cognition (Montello & Raubal, 2013) . To compute space syntax DepthmapX will be used. References Bafna, S. (2003).…

  • SMADSC: Introduction

    Complex systems are the core topic of  Social Modelling, Agent-Based Simulation, and Complexity. Complex systems usually emerge as an artefact of interaction. The output of a complex system follows the Power Law and may have a regime or phase changes, known as tipping points. Emergent properties and scale-free organisation are a typical feature of complex…

  • ISN: What are Social Networks?

    Social networks are based on relations between two or a few individuals from friendships over contracts to work contacts. Throughout the course, the theory behind social networks will be put into context with methods of comparing and applying social networks. Examples from different scientific disciplines will be used to illustrate the social networks. Network descriptives…

  • PE: Institutions and Economic principles

    The main reference for today will be Mueller’s Public Choice III Chapter 1 and 2 (Mueller, 2003)as well as Acemoglu’s Political Economy Lecture Notes Chapter 1 (Acemoglu, 2009). Additional readings are Acemoglu’s Chapter 2 and work by Ostrom (Ostrom, 1998) and Schnellenbach (Schnellenbach & Schubert, 2015). Political Economy joins the fields of Political Science and Economics.…

  • Urban Design I: Tools

    Throughout the course Urban Design I several “tools” were introduced that impact urbanity. Expansion Tools of this kind belong to top-down approaches and usually give form to the urbanscape in a radical way. Megascale-planing (Berlin) Berlin was an early example of a politically motivated re-organisation of administrative units. Berlin grew from nearly 2 million to…

  • PIPP: Governance beyond the state

    International politics differentiate themselves from state politics as the question of sovereignty is answered differently. States have internal and external sovereignty. A consequence is that they are formally equal entities. Therefore states have to coordinate horizontally and negotiate an order mostly based on the power they can display. International politics would be similar to national…