SPRING 2025

This seminar explores future city concepts through five modules—Sustainable, Resilient, Inclusive, Smart, and Multi-Scalar Cities—examining how architecture can contribute to the urban ecosystem of tomorrow. Students develop narratives on urban futures, analyzing emerging concepts of the future city in response to environmental and social challenges.
Through a mixed-methods approach, students merge human and artificial intelligence, using generative AI and traditional design tools to map, model, and visualize site-specific visions. By integrating data-driven insights with design experimentation, they explore new frameworks for adaptive urbanism. By synthesizing historical analysis with speculative futures, they engage architecture as a tool of ecological performance to create climate-responsive cities.

INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Future Cities is taught by an interdisciplinary team of instructors, including architecture, urban design + planning, geography, civil + environmental engineering.

COURSE ENVIRONMENT
This course includes guest speakers from the “Building Futures Series” and takes place at the Archiv für Bau.Kunst.Geschichte at Lois Welzenbacher Platz 1, 6020 Innsbruck. Students from the University of Texas at Arlington work collaboratively with students from the University of Innsbruck. 

GLOBAL CAMPUS
The Alpinestudio International Program is the global campus of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and the University of Innsbruck (LFU), engaging the fields of contemporary architecture and urban studies, focusing on climate-resilient cities in the Central Alpine Region, offering cross-listed courses open for enrollment to students from both sides of the Atlantic.

INSTRUCTORS

Oswald Jenewein

Mehdi Farahbakhsh

Yannick Back

Mohsen Hajibabaei