After successful completion of the course, students are able to work with texts (writing and research), and can distinguish between academic and journalistic writing.They are aware of the correct handling of quotation and bibliography, basic principles of library and internet research, as well as primary forms of argumentation. Participants are be able to perceive, structure, and organize a specific topic in such a way that it can be thoroughy discussed in a seminar paper.
So What?
Daydreaming at the Crossroad of Architecture and Music
What? A proposal for daydreaming at the point of “So what?” where nothing–at a conceptual level–could only be itself. A polycentric seminar rethinking the boundaries of aurality and spatiality… Dwelling on the metaphor of orbital movement, it allows participants to follow interdisciplinary paths through philosophy, architecture, and music in which the path never remains the same and the continuous questioning becomes a perpetuum mobile.
As the relation once of a physical reality, audial and spatial, rushes to gain a complexity it evolves into music and architecture. To be able to deal with this complexity we need to dwell on overarching concepts and mobilize them.
Within this polycentric setting a question rises like a mountain in the midst: How could we generate an articulate thinking in a sophisticated, yet humble and novel manner?
How? The seminar dwells on the tripartite structure of thinking, reading, and expressing. Accompanied by reading and presenting text clusters, participants are expected to raise individual questions laying the foundations of a structured research process. A non-physical displacement through brain-and-ear-storming online meetings with guests to discuss novel ways of understanding the relation between the aural and spatial awaits participants.
Submission of a seminar paper is required.
Why? Outcomes of this seminar could be set forth as a set of "awareness," starting by perceiving the overarching importance of theory. As active contributors to the seminar participants get accustomed to theory in a-temporally and contextually-polycentric layout. On the one hand, confronting clusters of ideas and learning how to mobilize them throughout the process of research, on the other hand, being able to transform this process of critical thinking to a novel synthesis without compromising creativity. Scheduled fieldtrips and meeting guest scholars aim participants to become aware of the importance of intellectual and spatial surroundings as inputs. Through a selected reader list and its group presentations participants get the opportunity to practice individual and group-working skills.
First meeting: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020, 4 pm.
The sessions are online, but live Sprechstunden (individually or in small groups) at the Department ATTP are possible to arrange.
Please consider the plagiarism guidelines of TU Wien when writing your seminar paper:
Directive concerning the handling of plagiarism (PDF)
