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2015/2016  KAN-CCMVC1009U  Delhi-Copenhagen Urban Challenge 2016

English Title
Delhi-Copenhagen Urban Challenge 2016

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration Summer
Start time of the course Summer
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Kristjan Jespersen - Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM)
The number of CBS seats at the Urban Challenges is very limited.

Students are kindly asked to e-mail Ditte Tellgren (dt.ino@cbs.dk) for inquiries regarding application to Delhi-Copenhagen Urban Challenge.

Please note that the course has been approved by the cand. merc. Study Board at CBS. Approval at other Study Boards at CBS is outstanding.

Please also note that examination by term paper is not applicable.
Main academic disciplines
  • Methodology and philosophy of science
  • Supply chain management and logistics
Last updated on 09-10-2015
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors: Delhi-Copenhagen Urban Challenge (DCUC) is a crossdisciplinary and cross-cultural summer school initiated by CIEL and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in collaboration with University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and Institute of Management Technology (IMT).
This summer school revolves around the theme transportation, mobility and urban space with the aim of providing a qualitative addition to IBM’s quantitative Smarter Cities Challenge. By applying ethnographic methods to issues regarding the flows of goods and people in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Delhi, India, the students will acquire real life experience in two very different urban settings. Through a comparative study the student will be asked to address and analyze how forms of transportation and mobility are perceived and applied in everyday life.

The overall course objective is to enable the student to independently design and conduct a fieldwork driven project in a hands-on multi-sited case study. This includes the reflective ability to apply relevant theoretical perspectives and methodologies, and to select and develop types of field inquiry and presentation appropriate to given topics. Specifically, at the end of the course, the student should be able to:
  • To identify and analyze relevant problems and challenges in relation to the overall theme
  • To demonstrate an understanding of how, why and when to apply relevant methodologies and theory from the curriculum in a comparative field-study of complex cultural urban settings
  • To assess critically the analytical potential of the chosen methodologies, concepts and theories to business
  • To communicate results to stakeholder
Course prerequisites
Written application with expression of interest in fieldwork studies and potential fieldwork experience.
Students are kindly asked to e-mail Ditte Lindharth Tellgren (dt.ino@cbs.dk) for inquiries regarding application to Delhi-Copenhagen Urban Challenge.
Prerequisites for registering for the exam
Number of mandatory activities: 3
Compulsory assignments (assessed approved/not approved)
Requirements about active class participation (assessed approved/not approved)
Participation in introductory lectures and fieldwork in both Copenhagen and Delhi.
The mid-term group presentation and final group presentation at IBM.

Requirements about active class participation (assessed approved/not approved)
Participation in introductory lectures and fieldwork in both Copenhagen and Delhi.
Examination
Copenhagen-Delhi Urban Challenge - transportation, mobility and urban space:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual
Written product to be submitted directly to Britta Gammelgaard, bg.om@cbs.dk
Size of written product Max. 15 pages
Assignment type Project
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Description of the exam procedure

Presentation and hand in report. In Copenhagen CBS students will give a final presentation in groups to IBM, and hand in an individual report.
Course content and structure

The Delhi-Copenhagen Urban Challenge’ (DCUC) is offered as a CIEL course, meaning it is offered simultaneously by University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark and Copenhagen Business School. Students from all three universities are taught together by professors from minimum two of the three universities, and course contents are innovative, practice-oriented and trans-disciplinary. Student performance will be assessed according to learning objective specific to their home institutions.

CIEL

 

The duration of the course is eight weeks. It starts with one week of pre-field study with electronic interaction for planning the field study and two introductory meetings at CBS. Thereafter the actual field study takes place with two weeks in Copenhagen followed by two weeks in Delhi. The last three weeks are dedicated for students to present in groups their outcome and insights to IBM Denmark, and to write an individual report. Course teachers are project supervisors.

 

Each stay will begin with a Copenhagen lecture and a Delhi lecture introducing the students to present urban challenges in Copenhagen and Delhi. Furthermore, site visits and city-tours will be arranged. Each stay will be completed with a presentation of project ideas/outcomes to the local client/stakeholders (IBM-offices and municipalities). Project supervision.

 

Pre-fieldwork, 

 One week with project design: through skype, email etc. DCUC
participants can share ideas, literature in order to develop a
preliminary project idea.
Academic lead in Copenhagen and in Delhi arrange one or two
briefing meetings with his/hers students before beginning of
fieldwork. In Copenhagen CBS students will meet with teachers.

Fieldwork,

 Four weeks fieldwork: Two weeks in Copenhagen followed by two
weeks in Delhi. Each stay will begin with a welcoming lecture on
urban challenges in Copenhagen and Delhi, followed by client
visit, lectures on ethnographic methods, urban transport and
mobility, such as city-logistics. Each stay will be completed with a
presentation to the local IBM office.

Post-fieldwork,

 

+ Examination

 

Writing up report and supervision (all students will be examined
by their home university).

 

Presentation and hand in report. In Copenhagen CBS students will
give a final presentation in groups to IBM, Denmark and hand in an individual report.
Teaching methods
The course is based on lectures and independent work in groups of 4-6 students from University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School and Institute of Management Technology. Teaching will be on a daily basis during the four weeks and will take place in Copenhagen and Delhi. Each stay will begin with a Copenhagen lecture and a Delhi lecture introducing the students to present urban challenges in Copenhagen and Delhi. Furthermore, site visits and city-tours will be arranged. Each stay will be completed with a presentation of project ideas/outcomes to the local client/stakeholders (IBM-offices and municipalities). Project supervision.
Further Information

Lessons will take place in their own premises and will be published in the program from CIEL on http://greeninnovationincities.dk/course/delhi-copenhagen-urban-challenge/.
The schedule will be available spring 2016.
Expected literature

Ethnography

  • Certeau, de Michel: 1988, “Spatial Stories”, in The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press.
  • Geertz, Clifford: 1973, “Thick Description: Toward an interpretive Theory of Culture”, In The Interpretation of Cultures, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, p. 3-30
  • Heidegger, Martin: 1977, ”The Question Concerning Technology”, Source: The Question Concerning Technology (1977), pp. 3–35)
  • Kusenbach, Margarethe: 2003, “Street phenomenology, The go-along as ethnographic research tool”, SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), www.sagepublications.com Vol. 4(3): 455–485[1466–1381(200309) 4:3; 455–485;035818]
  • O'Toole, Paddy & Were, Prisca: 2008, “Observing places: using space and material culture in qualitative research”, Qualitative Research 2008 8: 616, DOI: 10.1177/1468794108093899, The online version of this article can be found at: http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/8/5/616
  • Sheller, Mimi: 2004, “Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car”, Theory Culture Society 2004 21: 221, DOI: 10.1177/0263276404046068, The online version of this article can be found at: http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/21/4-5/221
  • Sin, Chih Hoong: 2003, ‘Interviewing in 'place': the socio-spatial construction of interview data In: Area, Vol. 35, No. 3.
  • Jon Anderson: 2004, ‘Talking whilst walking: a geographical archaeology of knowledge’ In: Area 36.3.
  • James Spradley: 1980, ”Doing Participant Observation”, 53-62, In: Participant observation, Wadsworth.
  • Ingold, Tim and Jo Lee: 2005, ”Fieldwork on Foot: Perceiving, Routing, Socializing”. pp. 67-85. In: Simon Coleman & Peter Collins, Locating the Field. Space, Place and Context in Anthropology. Oxford & New York: Berg, 2005.
  • Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz & Linda L Shaw: 1995, “Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research”. In: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, The University of Chicago Press, s. 1 – 38

 

Urban transport and mobility

  • Aastrup, Jesper, Britta Gammelgaard, Günter Prockl 2012, 3PL Services in City Logistics.
  • Töyli,J.; Johansson, L.; Lorentz, H. Ojala, L. and Laari, S. (eds:): NOFOMA 2012. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Nordic Logistics Research Network Conference
  • Allen, J. and M. Browne 2010, “Sustainability strategies for City logistics”, In McKinnon et al (eds.) Green Logistics; Kogan Page.
  • Blanco, E. and J. Franso: 2013,“Reaching 50 million nanostores: retail distribution in emerging megacities”, WP, BETA Research Schook, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Scott, Allen J.: 2012, Chapter 1.2. & 3. In: A world in Emergence – cities and regions in the 21st century
  • Bannister, David: 2008, The sustainable mobility paradigm In: Transport Policy
  • Middleton, Jennie: 2011, I’m on autopilot, I just follow the route: exploring the habits, routines, and decision-making practices of everyday urban mobilities
  • Deni, Eric, Elfie Swerts: 2014, Megacities: The Asian Era In: Urban Development challenges, risks and resilience in Asian Mega Cities, Sustainable urban future for emerging Mega cities
  • Kundu, Debolina: 2014, Urbanization trends of Indian metropolises: A case study of Delhi. In: Urban Development challenges, risks and resilience in Asian Mega Cities, Sustainable urban future for emerging Mega cities

 

IBM

  • IBM Danmarks hjemmeside: http://www.ibm.com/dk/da/
  • IBM UK's hjemmeside, for at have en på engelsk: http://www.ibm.com/uk/en/
  • Smarter Planet (engelsk): http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/?ca=v_smarterplanet#/default
  • Smarter Planet (Danmark/dansk): http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/dk/da/
  • How to reinvent a city? (2013) IBM Smarter Cities. White paper
  • Litow, S. “America´s Cities (2011) Need to Get Smarter”, HBR Blog, 19 April
  • Smarter Cities Challenge What they´re saying (update), http://youtu.be/9CdqRr---Zdao
Last updated on 09-10-2015