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Home and Neighborhood

Home and Neighborhood

Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Architecture
Project Description
In this seminar, students engage with the home and the neighborhood as places of privacy, intimacy and encounter, safety and possibility, inclusion and exclusion. By adopting a perspective that focuses on housing situations of individuals and social groups, students will learn to understand design as embedded in social settings and as a tool to improve or hinder peoples livelihoods.
Teaching Method
Lectures, oral presentations, textual analysis, written assignments, use of visual tools as filming and photography
Learning Objectives
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to
Learning Outcomes The students...
Professional Competence
  • comprehend the basics of conceptual thinking and the terminology required for a critical discussion of home and neighborhood.
  • understand and evaluate concepts and arguments central to discourses in housing studies.
  • understand sustainable architecture in a critical environment, and to translate theoretical concepts for urban and architectural design.
  • conceptualise housing needs of individuals and social groups at the center of their practice and understand home and neighborhood design as critical to improve peoples livelihoods.
Methodological Competence
  • analyse theories, understand the structure of written arguments and communicate their findings to their peers.
Social Competence
  • communicate, discuss and critique their own work through oral presentation and/or written outputs.
Personal Competence
  • situate their own work in a cultural and political context.
  • understand housing design as embedded in social structures and having a direct impact on peoples livelihoods.
Requirements
None
Assessment Methods
Compulsory attendance according to the Study and Assessment Regulation MSc Architecture.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: submission (40%) and presentation/participation (60%).
Module number:
6212199
Semester:
WS 26/27
ECTS Credits:
2
Courses:
24 L / 18 h
Self-study:
42 h
Scheduled Semester:
1-2-3