The scholarly exchange is an established practice. Scientific work is first positioned, presented and put up for discussion within one's own discipline and the associated theoretical standpoints and methodical practices. After that, follows a phase of the critical debate: by the clients, supervisors, reviewers. This pattern can be observed for research reports, PhD theses, habilitations and during the review process for peer-reviewed journals and grant applications. This phase of critical but constructive peer feedback will be addressed in the Peer Review Colloquium course. The participants and course leaders will alternately assume the role of the presenter and the respondent. One of the main goals of the course is to provide critical and constructive feedback in a group setting.
In the summerterm 2019 we will continue to explore the theme of 'transfer'. Discursive and social processes constantly shape the production and use of architecture as well as cities. Ideas, concepts, attitudes and beliefs, as well as typologies and planning tools, are constantly being transferred and modified in new contexts. The subject matter of 'transfer' includes the complex relationship between the built environment and its analogue and digital media of representation. During the semester, we will analyse and discuss the notions of transfer, translation and transformation. The focus in summer term will be exploration of transfer based on the reception of architecture and the built enviroment from the viewpoint of other disciplines such as ethnography, geography, and history.
Participants are required to analyse and present selected texts. The course will be held alternately in English and German.
The text analysis follows a scheme provided by us and is based on works by Dvora Yanow and Martyn Hammersley. Accordingly, the inner structure of the text is to be uncovered, and the 'storyline' briefly summarized and crucial and analyzed. Course leaders Maja Lorbek and Michael Klein will carry out an exemplary text analysis and present it during the kick-off meeting. Master students will conduct text analysis as a group exercise, while PhD students can also analyse chapters of the own work and receive additional input from peers.
Meetings:
- Kick-off: 14.3. 2019, 17.00 Uhr, Bibliothek Wohnbau
- 10.04. 2019, 17:00 – 19:30 Uhr, Projektraum 13
- 15.05. 2019, 17:00 – 19:30 Uhr, Bibliothek Wohnbau CANCELLED
- 29.05. 2019, 17:00 – 19:30 Uhr, Bibliothek Wohnbau
- 12.06. 2019, 17:00 – 19:30 Uhr, Bibliothek Wohnbau
Selected course reading
Agier, Michel. 2018. The Jungle: Calais’s Camps and Migrants. 1st ed. Medford, MA: Polity. [One chapter]
Bourdieu, P. 1970. ‘The Berber House or the World Reversed’. Social Science Information 9 (2): 151–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/053901847000900213.
Clarke, Alison J. 2001. ‘The Aesthetics of Social Aspiration’. In Home Possessions: Material Culture behind Closed Doors, edited by Daniel Miller. Oxford: Berg.
Hammersley, Martyn. 1998. Reading Ethnographic Research: A Critical Guide. 2nd ed. Longman Social Research Series. London ; New York: Longman.
Kotkin, Stephen. 1997. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. 1. paperback print. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press. [Chapter 'The Idiocy of Urban Life']
Schorske, Carl E. 1981. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. 1st Vintage Book ed. New York: Vintage Books.
Strebel, Ignaz, and Jane M. Jacobs. 2013. ‘People and Buildings: Pearl Jephcott and the Science of Life in High Flats’. Candide 7 (2013). http://www.candidejournal.net/download/CAN07+Essay+Strebel+Jacobs.
