by admin_user | Mar 9, 2026 | Inspiration, Learn, Workshops
Thinking in and through frames The Film as Method workshop series was developed and delivered by Amal Barre in collaboration with Tuna Taşan-Kok for students enrolled in Contemporary Approaches in Property-led Planning from October – December of 2025. The course...
by admin_user | May 27, 2025 | Learn, Reflections
Embracing complexity, ambiguity, and contradiction Two days after attending the masterclasses with Dr. Ersan Ocak, I found myself in Bucharest, a case study in the GREEN-INC project. Poised with the unfamiliar and deeply urban, but without question – intensely rich...
by admin_user | May 5, 2025 | Inspiration
Seeing the city through a new lens: Essay-film as research method in urban studies In March, the Amsterdam School of Planning hosted its very first methods workshop, marking the beginning of what we hope will be an ongoing series of sessions exploring diverse tools...
by admin_user | Apr 17, 2025 | Reflections
Five Days in Amsterdam, the City of Rain/Regen Joris Ivens’s poetic documentary Regen (1929) has always been a special film for me as a filmmaker and an urbanist. It is part of the city symphony tradition in film history—a short symphony. It consists of rainy images...
by admin_user | Mar 11, 2025 | Learn
Film as Essay with Ersan Ocak Award winning urbanist and feature/documentary film maker Dr Ersan Ocak will kick off the ‘film as essay’ methods masterclasses. He will introduce a theoretical and overview of film making to interrogate ideas around knowledge production...
