‚Longform‘

''Longform', 'Longread' – these are dedicated pages on the net which, to the urgency of short messages, oppose long, selected texts. And as Rem Koolhaas stated in "Bigness and the Problem of Large" sheer size can already be a program in itself. Long research papers, some of them known as Dissertations, often seem like a literary genre in their own right: they are somehow unknown, difficult, but also holding a particular reward. Their accomplishment is associated with an enormous amount of work. Its anticipated result is a paper that is serious, readable and comprehensible – no easy task. Difficulties arise not only in connection to methodological problems in the narrow sense, but also in relation to the structure of the paper and the organization of a workflow, which is a method in its own right. These are some of the aspects that will be covered in the seminar. The course  provides the opportunity to apply different scientific methods in practice. We will focus on various research methods and their application in relation to a particular problem.

The course is basically open to everybody. It is especially addressed to doctoral candidates and also to graduate students.

NEW The seminar offers an organisational framework within which the participants have the opportunity to invite independent experts to workshops. the workshops will take place towards the end of the semester. The funds for this are provided by the invite program, which also feeds other corresponding courses on the faculty. For the time being, this format is only planned for the coming winter semester.

Note: the focus will be on practicing exercises, therefore the length of the appointments might vary (in accordance with the participants).

Practical excercises in:

    -    finding a research question
    -    finding the appropriate method for a particular problem
    -    applying that method in a short research thesis
    -    organizing a workflow
    -    organizing a (long) text and (short) passages
    -    presentation and defense

each Thursday, 6:00-7:30 pm



1st meeting: 18.18.18

At the ATTP-library (3rd floor) or Seminarraum Architekturtheorie
(other appointments are possible)
Please consider the plagiarism guidelines of TU Wien when writing your seminar paper: Directive concerning the handling of plagiarism (PDF)

Exposée / Abstract / Presentation / Summaries etc.

Articles and literature are selected according to the respective topics and made available during the course.