After successful completion of the course, students are able to (1.) identify suitable papers in architecture and planning, (2.) understand their structure rapidly and (3.) include the findings of these into their own research.

We will be reading through landmark papers in digital architecture and planning, in order to acquire scientific skills in architectual sciences. This part will be supplemented by a crashcourse in scientific event management, i.e. organization of symposia/conferences and journal publications, which is the "other side" that authors seldom get an insight into if they are not experts in their field.

• reading, reading, reading: understand how to skim through available sources, interpret and understand paragraphs, organize and sort research ideas expressed with regards to one's own goal
• writing: understand how difficult it is to express one's own ideas in English, especially when there is a variety of publication styles and one has to express one's ideas always in reference to these (and not, as in literature, as per one's individual style and taste)
• experimenting: performing idea experiments based on published research (what if..., to what would ... lead)

Oral examination regarding the understanding of scientific material in architectural sciences, especially the ability to rapidly assess whether one should read on, and to what extent this applies to one's own problem.

If you can read this, you have met all course requirements (the language of academia is English, and therefore all participants must be able to communicate in that language). All other points are optional, i.e.:

• No previous knowledge of programming is required, it will be tought in the course
• Some previous knowledge of academic work (i.e. writing a paper) is helpful, but also not required; we will gain insights into academic work during the course.