Film inspires the spatial and societal imaginations of architects and urban designers, and thus, design teachers have long been experimenting with films, filmic techniques, and filmmaking in the studio. Building on the course design and student output of an undergraduate architectural design studio entitled Projections for the Urban Night, this essay aims to demonstrate how film can be utilized as a pedagogical tool to examine the built environment and for imagining possible futures. The studio drew upon cinematic techniques of collage, storyboarding, physical model animation, and film essays for the development of individual proposals. Based on a discussion of student projects, the essay makes an argument for film to serve as more than representation, highlighting its potential as instigator for what to design.

The essay begins with a review and analysis of past experiments, examining how architects, urban designers, and design teachers have invoked film in relation to design. Contemporary pedagogic experiments using film tend to display an enchantment with the application of technology and digital media at the expense of critical reflections on the ideological frameworks that undergird the designs. The essay then moves on to the discussion of the specific studio in which the focus on the technological aspect was circumvented by asking students to develop scenarios for the near-future commoning of the urban night—drawing on the interdisciplinary research area of “Night Studies.” This discussion is supported by references to students’ explorations and the essay argues that the thematic intervention, asking students to design for the night, to develop programs that take into consideration social and physical activity after dark, opened up new possibilities to critique hegemonic practices.

电影激发了建筑师和城市设计师的空间和社会想象力，因此，设计教师长期以来一直在工作室中尝试电影、电影技术和电影制作。基于名为“城市之夜的投影”的本科建筑设计工作室的课程设计和学生成果，本文旨在展示如何利用电影作为教学工具来检查建筑环境和想象可能的未来。该工作室利用​​拼贴、故事板、物理模型动画和电影论文等电影技术来制定个人提案。基于对学生项目的讨论，这篇文章论证了电影的作用不仅仅是表现，突出了它作为设计内容的煽动者的潜力。

本文首先回顾和分析过去的实验，考察建筑师、城市设计师和设计教师如何将电影与设计相关联。当代使用电影的教学实验往往表现出对技术和数字媒体应用的迷恋，而牺牲了对支撑设计的意识形态框架的批判性反思。然后，文章继续讨论特定工作室，在该工作室中，通过要求学生利用“夜间研究”的跨学科研究领域，为近期城市夜晚的公共化开发场景，从而规避了对技术方面的关注。 ” 这个讨论得到了学生探索的参考，文章认为主题干预，要求学生为夜晚设计，