After successful completion of the course, students are able to write a scientific essay on their own and do the necessary in-advance research; this also means finding and choosing appropriate and relevant literature by reading suitable texts critically and evaluating them.

TBA

Within the framework of a selected subject area (e.g. The Productive City), all students will read different works (partly in excerpts), which afterwards they will present and review individually. A review includes information on the author, the text content, the environment, and the background – in order to enable us to understand what the author wants to convey and, in addition, what background these insights and theses have arisen against. It is therefore a matter of critically grasping the text from our current state of knowledge, evaluating it and classifying it. The book presentations are made verbally, i.e. without media support; only a short handout is expected. The seminar leader takes on an introductory presentation of the topic (e.g. urban redevelopment), as well as the moderation of the discussion on the individual texts and the concluding discussion on the block, in which the aim will be to put the individual texts in relation to one another and to evaluate them, in order to critically identify the topic from our architectural-theoretical perspective and to develop a position of one's own on it.

Registration starts at 16.09.2019 via TISS Pool!

The kick off on 10.10.2019 is already held as a full unit: it lasts 4 hours - we will do the first bib-crawl (BOKU).

The language of instruction is German - however, the seminar paper can also be written in English.

Active partizipation in bib-crawl and colloquium (compulsory attendance); 2 text reviews (oral + compact handout for each), 1 final paper (scientific essay). A positve evaluation of each of these three tasks is compulsory.

German and English both spoken and written, since we treat texts in these languages.