Scholarly communication is organised on the principle of peer-review. A scholarly text needs to be positioned and discussed within the disciplinary domain, taking into account previous research, theoretical frameworks and methods. Most pieces of scholarly work go through a phase of critical inquiry by scientific peers, reviewers, supervisors, evaluators, grant institutions etc. Different kinds of scholarly research: studies, PhD theses, habilitations, grant proposals and articles for peer-reviewed journals are critically appraised in this manner. Ideally, this process will enhance the quality of scholarly work.
Our course: ‚Peer-Review Colloquium‘, is based on a similar principle of critical, yet constructive feedback by colleagues and peers. The structure of the course offers space for peer-to-peer communication and provides informed response to ongoing research projects such as doctoral dissertations, grant proposals, articles in peer-reviewed journals etc. Lecturers and participants will take on both roles: that of presenter and of respondent/reviewer. The main objective of the course is to enable critical and constructive feedback in a group setting.
Main topic winter semester 2017/2018:
Material(s) and Materiality
Social and material processes as well as mediated representations repeatedly constitute the built environment. In winter semester 2017/2018 the overarching theme of the colloquium will deal with the material dimension of this ongoing co-construction. We will explore the material sphere both as the physical domain of the built environment but also as its material repository in archives, collections and publications. In this term, we will also address theories dealing with social and material co-construction of technology, including Actor-Network-Theory (ANT), SCOT (social construction of technology), transition theory, practice theory as well as the concept of social construction of space.
Lecturers Maja Lorbek and Michael Klein will present and discuss the concept of material as one of the elements in the concept of social practice as defined by Shove et al. (2012). We will also discuss methods used in material studies.
Iris Meder, an architectural historian (invited guest) will give a short introduction on conducting research in archives and bequests.
In early 2018, a workshop with another guest, Lukasz Stanek (solicited, University of Manchester), an expert on materialist epistemologies of architecture, will take place.
Participants will be expected to present their ongoing research and to prepare input on methods related to the general theme of material(s) and materiality. Participants are also required to provide informed feedback for presentations by fellow peers.
Termine / dates:
ALL MEETINGS: BIBLIOTHEK ABTEILUNG WOHNBAU
13.10 2017: von 14:30 – 16:00 Einführung / Introduction
10.11. 2017 von 14:30 – 18:30
01.12. 2017 von 14:30 – 18:30
12.01. 2018 von 14:30 – 18:30
26.01. 2018 von 14:30 – 18:30
Empfohlene Literatur / reading list / literature:
Bijker, Wiebe E., and Karin Bijsterveld. 2000. ‘Women Walking through Plans: Technology, Democracy, and Gender Identity’. Technology and Culture 41 (3): 485–515.
Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas Parke Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, eds. 2012. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Anniversary ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Buchli, Victor, ed. 2002. The Material Culture Reader. Oxford ; New York: Berg.
———. 2013. An Anthropology of Architecture. London ; New York: Bloomsbury.
Geels, Frank W. 2004. ‘From Sectoral Systems of Innovation to Socio-Technical Systems’. Research Policy 33 (6): 897–920. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2004.01.015.
Gieryn, Thomas F. 2002. ‘What Buildings Do’. Theory and Society 31 (1): 35–74. doi:10.1023/A:1014404201290.
Göbel, Hanna Katharina, and Sophia Prinz, eds. 2015. Die Sinnlichkeit des Sozialen: Wahrnehmung und materielle Kultur. Sozialtheorie. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Lefebvre, Henri. 2003. Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings. Edited by Stuart Elden. 1. publ. Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers. New York: Continuum.
Latour, Bruno. 2007. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Reckwitz, Andreas. 2002. ‘The Status of the “Material” in Theories of Culture: From “Social Structure” to “Artefacts”’. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32 (2): 195–217. doi:10.1111/1468-5914.00183.
Schatzki, Theodore R. 1996. Social Practices: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Human Activity and the Social. Digitally printed version, Paperback re-Issue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
———. 2002. The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press.
Shove, Elizabeth. 1999. ‘Constructing Home: A Crossroad of Choices’. In At Home. An Anthropology of Domestic Space, edited by Irene Cieraad and John Rennie Short, 1. pbk. ed. Space, Place, and Society. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press.
Shove, Elizabeth, Mika Pantzar, and Matt Watson. 2012. The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes. Los Angeles London New Delhi Singapore Washington DC: Sage.
Stanek, Lukasz. 2011. Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory / Lukasz Stanek. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.