Course catalogue WS 2012/2013
for the study courses at the Institute for European Urban Studies
(version 26.09.2012)
Lectures:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Barbara Schönig
Bauhaus-Universität staff
Guest speakers
wo 2 V Urban Design/Urban Planning 3 Credits
Lecture Series: European Urbanism/European City
Speaking of the European City two assumptions come to mind: On the one hand the European City is used as an analytical term and denominates a very specific type of urban form and society that has developed over centuries within Europe. Even though European cities might at first glance not look alike, the concept of the European City claims that they share significant characteristics and differ decisively from cities in other parts of the world notwithstanding the effects of globalization and internationalization. On the other hand, the European City has become a global planning brand. In that understanding the term is used as a normative principle of urban planning and urban design that is associated with the creation of socially and environmentally sustainable urban environments. However, inspite of the undoubted qualities of European cities, it must be asked in what way the European City can be used to guide urban development also in other parts of the world under different political, cultural, economic and environmental circumstances.
Within that frame of discussion, the objective of the course is to develop an understanding and critical discussion of the European city as a theoretical concept and as a planning principle. The course consists of a lecture series and a seminar. The lecture series will integrate different disciplinary perspectives on concept, reality and current development trends of the European City: These perspectives will be represented through lectures given by Bauhaus University staff or guest speakers invited. Using Berlin as an example and reference the seminar will in detail discuss the empirical matter and historic evolution of the European city as discussed in theoretical concepts. While doing so it will especially focus on the distinctive features of planning and urban development in Berlin as a European city.
Time: Tuesday, 17:00 18:30
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 09, 2012
Registration: during first lecture
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
wo 2 V Urban Sociology 3 Credits
German Cities in Transition
Life in German cities has undergone substantial changes in the last decade. Not only the East German cities had to address new challenges after the reunification of the German nation in 1990, but also the West German cities had to reformulate their place in the complex urban networks. Cities are mirroring wider changes in German society where new social and political developments can be observed. Economic and cultural globalization has had a major impact on many aspects of urban life. This lecture will give an overview about major developments in German cities since the German reunification in 1990. It will provide both a sound source of information on the most important issues of German society and reflect important discussion of the international debate on urban studies. It starts with a historical analysis that puts German cities in a context of the industrial revolution and the dramas of the 20th century.
Time: Monday, 17:00 18:30
Location: Marienstr. 13, Lecture Hall D
Start: October 15, 2012
Registration: during first lecture
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
Doctoral candidates IPP-EU/UH
wo 2 V Urban Sociology 3 Credits
Urban Heritage Lecture Series
The last decades have shown that urban development is a highly contested notion with a multitude of internal contradictions and heritage plays a substantial role fueling these contradictions. This lecture series, prepared by the doctoral candidates from the Institute of European Urbanism, is aimed to tackle some of the main issues related to the theme 'urban heritage'.
Departing from historic monument preservation and urban development policy characterized by awareness of history, the lecture series will operate with an extensive concept of 'heritage' considering the political and sociological constitution of the city in regard to its capacity for social integration and local democracy. Instead of offering a univocal comprehensive overview of the various aspects of urban heritage, each lecture will give voice to a multitude of approaches that engage with the topic from different disciplinary backgrounds and geographically diverse case studies.
Theorizing the kaleidoscopic and rich empirical materials provided by each of these lectures, the lecturers and students will engage in critical discussions with the broad topic of urban heritage revolving around a shared set of questions: What constitutes urban heritage and the way it is perceived, valued and presented? What kind of diverging claims are activated and what makes heritage such a debated issue? How do specific disciplines engage with the topic and how can these different approaches be bridged together? By means of the lecture series contributed by candidates from different disciplinary backgrounds, we aim to shed light on a further understanding to the subject of urban heritage and the complexities entangled in/evolved from/ derived to it.
Time: Monday, 19:00 20:30
Location: Marienstr. 13, Lecture Hall B
Start: October 08, 2012
Registration: during first lecture
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig
wo 2 V Project Development 3 Credits
Basics and Methods of Real Estate Project Development
This lecture focusses main topics of real estate and urban development, analysis trends of the real estate market, economic calculation in phases of the development. Additional to this course the participants have to take part in the course Real Estate Development
Time: Tuesday, 11:00 12:30
Location: Coudraystr. 13a, Lecture Hall 2
Start: October 09, 2012
Registration: during first lecture
Dr.-Ing. Harald Kegler
wo 2 V Spatial Planning 3 Credits
Sustainable Urban Conversion History, Strategies, Concepts, Projects (Germany, Europe, USA)
Urban Conversion (Redevelopment) is a response to social, functional and technical, but also ecological change.
What lies behind the term Urban Conversion in theory and practice? There are three large-scale fields of sustainable action intended: firstly, the conversion of the city-centre, also known as rejuvenation; secondly, the redevelopment of areas that are not being used and have become wasteland (traditionally known as conversion like brown- or greyfields); thirdly, the redevelopment of large-scale monofunctional housing estates (slaburbs) which was formally known as adjustment. There are different historical dimensions and planning strategies behind these types of urban conversion.
This new type of city-development could be characterized as the Third phase of the European Urban Renewal. The successful European Year of the Preservation of Monuments in 1975 marked the high-point of the radical change of the leitmotif.
The importance of strategies, cult events, cult locations, cult plans and projects and the prophets of the urban conversion is a mean point in the understanding of the new era of the city development.
Today there could be considered: there are new subjects the redevelopment of the urban region and the sustainable/resilient city as a reaction of the climate change issue.
Time: Thursday, 15:15 16:45
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: November 1, 2012
Registration: during first lecture
Seminars:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Barbara Schönig
wo 2 S Urban Design/Urban Planning 3 Credits
European Urbanism/European City
Speaking of the European City two assumptions come to mind: On the one hand the European City is used as an analytical term and denominates a very specific type of urban form and society that has developed over centuries within Europe. Even though European cities might at first glance not look alike, the concept of the European City claims that they share significant characteristics and differ decisively from cities in other parts of the world notwithstanding the effects of globalization and internationalization. On the other hand, the European City has become a global planning brand. In that understanding the term is used as a normative principle of urban planning and urban design that is associated with the creation of socially and environmentally sustainable urban environments. However, inspite of the undoubted qualities of European cities, it must be asked in what way the European City can be used to guide urban development also in other parts of the world under different political, cultural, economic and environmental circumstances.
Within that frame of discussion, the objective of the course is to develop an understanding and critical discussion of the European city as a theoretical concept and as a planning principle. The course consists of a lecture series and a seminar. The lecture series will integrate different disciplinary perspectives on concept, reality and current development trends of the European City: These perspectives will be represented through lectures given by Bauhaus University staff or guest speakers invited. Using Berlin as an example and reference the seminar will in detail discuss the empirical matter and historic evolution of the European city as discussed in theoretical concepts. While doing so it will especially focus on the distinctive features of planning and urban development in Berlin as a European city.
Course Requirements
- regular attendance of seminar
- oral presentation in seminar and short paper with structure and hypothesis to be discussed
- office hour consultation at least two weeks before presentation (bring short paper including the structure of your presentation and main research hypothesis to be discussed in seminar)
- written paper (length: at least 10 pages / person written text) to be handed in by Februrary 15th, 2013
Time: Monday, block course
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 08, 2012 (09:15 12:30), further dates: Excursion to Berlin (Oct. 26 (09:00-17:30) and Oct. 27), Nov. 26 (09:00 16:45), Dec. 17 (09.00 16:45)
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 003
Joan Byron M.P.A. (guest lecturer, Pratt Center for Community Development, Brooklyn USA)
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
wo 2 S Urban Design/Urban Planning 3 Credits
Transportation equity
The economies of global cities in Europe and the US, and in some newly urbanizing regions of the world as well, are increasingly polarized into high- and low-end services. Leaders of those cities have embraced the enhancement of the public realm, including transit infrastructure and service, as a strategy to attract and retain highly valued workers and companies in finance, media, technology, etc.
At the same time, the population of workers in low-wage service sectors hospitality, food, building services, etc. is also growing. Spatial patterns of social, racial, and economic segregation vary among cities, but neighborhoods generally reflect the polarization that has characterized the service-led resurgence of urban economies. Quality of life, including access to transit (and therefore to economic opportunity, education, and urban amenities), thus varies greatly between more- and less- valued areas. And even as city leaders avow their commitment to sustainable transportation, developments that generate high volumes of new automobile and truck trips, such as shopping centers and freight facilities are often built in the outlying neighborhoods where poor and working-class people are more likely to live. Such developments, along with the highways and parking facilities that they require, physically fragment the places where they are located, and degrade their design cohesion and identity as well as concentrating air pollution and other traffic impacts in already vulnerable communities.
Some cities have intentionally if belatedly made significant investments in transportation infrastructure that will serve working-class and poor neighborhoods at their peripheries, though the scale, quality, and impact of these investments varies. In this block, students will have the opportunity to compare selected European cities with cities in their home countries or regions, exploring recent and proposed transportation planning and projects, their hoped-for and actual impacts, and the social and political value systems that underlie their creation.
Objectives
Students will examine and discuss transportation investments and strategies in several European cities, as well as in some US cases. Each student will prepare a brief paper examining economic and demographic trends in a city of his or her choice, and evaluating the impact of recent and proposed projects which may include transportation facilities, and/or major developments that shape / are shaped by transportation infrastructure. An alternative approach to the paper would be an analysis of issues of transportation equity in a selected city, with the goal of developing a methodology that is of use to citizens and decision-makers in identifying priorities for future improvements.
Learning methods
Piloting new learning methods on a transnational level, this module is supported by funds of the European Social Fund (ESF) of the European Union and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). As a blended learning module, video teaching, a web-based platform and a workshop will be applied.
In cooperation of international master courses "European Urban Studies" and "Advanced Urbanism" with the model project partner "Pratt Center for Community Development" (Brooklyn, USA).
Time: Wednesday, 17:00 20:30, block course
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 008
Start: October 24, 2012
Further dates: Nov. 07 + 21 / Dec. 05, 2012; workshop days: Jan. 18 + 25, 2013 (09:00-15:00)
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 003
Number of participants: max. 15 students
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
Doctoral candidates IPP-EU/UH
wo 2 S Urban Sociology 3 Credits
Urban Heritage Lecture Series
For course description please see category lectures.
Credits and a grade for a seminar in the study field urban sociology can be earned by handing in a written report. Details have to be clarified with the lecturer.
Time: Monday, 19:00 20:30
Location: Marienstr. 13, Lecture Hall B
Start: October 08, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 003
Jennifer Plaul, M.A.
wo 2 S Urban Sociology 3 Credits
Social Justice and the City
Inner-city poverty, crime, social and ethnic inequality and segregation have intensified in urban areas at the same time that the global economy has expanded. Calls for social justice emerge from diverse past and present movements across the world, from religiously-based social welfare organizations, human rights organizations to political party platforms and the recent Occupy movements. Each particular movement associates different, more general or specific, needs and aims with what is fair and just in society. Scholars and planners of urban and metropolitan areas also approach the question of how to best achieve these aims from different angles. Justice can thus be meant e.g. as an egalitarian ideal, a political call to activism or a normative concept for evaluating policy decisions.
Borrowing the title of David Harvey?s reflections on the nature of theory, space, social justice and urbanism, this seminar will attempt to better understand what is behind ideas of social justice in a spatial context. The seminar will be based on reading and discussing contributions by significant authors who address the question of social justice in the city, as well as on text-based discussions of spaces of injustice in European cities and across the world.
Time: Wednesday, 09:15 10:45
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 10, 2012
Registration: October 08, IfEU, Room 003
Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Kristina Hoffmann
Nicole Martin, M.Sc.
wo 2 S Project Development 3 Credits
Real Estate Project Development
Constitutive on the course Basics and Methods of Real Estate Project Development a development task is the main topic of this course. Characteristics are market and location analysis, concepts for estimated usage and economic calculations. Additional information will be given in the first course.
Time: Wednesday, 11:00 12:30
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 10, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Dipl.-Ing. Piero Sassi
Sergiu Novac, M.A.
wo 2 S Spatial Planning 3 Credits
Questioning Growth. Theoretical and Practical Challenges for Planning
OBJECTIVE
Growth has become a recurrent topic in public parlor, being on top of the agenda for politicians, academics and the general public alike. A great deal of concern is being invested into the ways in which the growth of cities, national economies or even the global economy ought to be revived. This concern is by no means novel. However, considering that the global economic recession is affecting ever larger segments of society, this is probably more important than ever.
Spatial planning, with its various sub-disciplines, has played an active role in shaping the debate around growth, both theoretically, as well as practically. Topics like the compact city and urban sprawl have been widely discussed over the last decades. Nonetheless, planning, just like mainstream economics and policymaking, did not question, at least until recently, the underlying need for growth.
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to an interdisciplinary debate that questions the underlying assumption for growth. In the first segment of the seminar notions such as de-growth (decroissance), green growth, the limits to growth and the tragedy of the commons will be added to the already familiar planning notions of sustainability and shrinkage. The second segment of the seminar will explore under a more interactive workshop format the potential role that spatial planning could take up in a post-growth society.
STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS
The seminar will be structured in three different parts:
1) Introduction to the theoretical debate on growth and post-growth.
In the first part the main issues of the interdisciplinary discussion on growth and post-growth will be introduced through student presentations on assigned readings, focusing on what can be very broadly categorized as the post-growth literature. The aim is not to exhaust the subject matter, rather to offer a toolkit through which to make the subject accessible. Additional readings and further recommendations on specific topics will be given in each session and will appear in the Semesterapparat of the seminar.
2) Workshop.
This first segment of the seminar will end with a concluding session, structured in the form of a workshop. This session will create the bridge between the first and the second part of the seminar. During the session students will be divided into groups and will be asked to draft a short working concept (definition or statement) on post-growth to be applied to a practical example (urban design project or planning practice).
3) Analysis of post-growth planning practices .
The last part of the seminar will be used for students to engage creatively with the topic of post-growth. They will present, based on the statement/concept that they have drafted in the second segment of the seminar, a project that experiments with bringing the idea of post-growth in relation with spatial planning and reflexively asses the outcomes of the project.
ASSIGNMENTS/ ASSESMENT
Course attendance certificate:
- Active class participation
- Presentation
Grade:
- Active class participation
- Presentation
- Report (10-20 pages) on the topic presented and on the issues raised in the following open discussion
Time: Tuesday, 13:30 16:45, block course (even weeks)
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 16, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
o 2 S Model Project Seminar 3 Credits
Model Project Seminar/Model Project Forum
The seminars goal is to exchange about and learn from different projects in the urban realm where second semester students have been involved in during their Model Project semester in summer 2011. The seminar challenges students to contextualize the own individual practical work and research experience into a broader context of urban research. It allows participants to deepen the understanding between practice and theory and to contribute real-world-experience in a reflective way. Finally, the seminar work aims also to prepare students to hold a lecture for the International Model Project Forum in front of audience that is dedicated to an overarching conference title.
The three phases of the seminar: 1.) Reporting and evaluating the Model Projects through individual presentations and group discussion, 2.) Introduction to the Model Project Forum including the preparation of and feedback on individual presentation concepts for the forum, 3.) Coached rehearsals for presentations, and last but not least the final presentations at the 12th International Model Project Forum (mid February 2012).
Participation is obligatory and only for EU students. Attested absences of more than two meetings will automatically lead to the failure of credits.
Directed at: Master EU only (third semester)
Time: Wednesday, 13.30 - 15:00 (block meetings)
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 005
Start: October 10, 2012
Registration: October 08, IfEU, Room 003
Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
o 2 S Model Projects / Introduction
Introduction to the Model Projects
The seminar serves as preparation for the Model Project semester in spring/summer 2012. Besides an introduction to the 'Model Projects European Urban Studies', students will learn to present their personal portfolios for the prospective model project partners at an early stage in the semester. This also consist of individual presentations. The first semester students (only European Urban Studies) are also invited to participate in the third semester's meetings of the model project seminar to get first impressions of content and form of different experiences from last semesters model projects.
Participation is obligatory and only for EU students and will be credited as part of the Model Projects.
Directed at: Master EU only (first semester)
Time: Wednesday, 15:15 - 16.45 (block meetings plus individual arrangements)
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 005
Start: October 10, 2012
Registration: October 08, IfEU, Room 003
Liza KAM, M.Arch.
o 2 S Preparatory Course AdUrb 3 Credits
Urbanism in China. Traditional and Contemporary Chinese urban settlements at a glance
Like many other Asian cities, Chinese cities have been fundamentally undergoing a transformation process in the previous decades, as a result of globalization and intensive modernization. This development however, is accompanied by the destruction of the unique cultural heritage and identity represented by the built environment in the region.
The broad discussion is, Who are the actors contributing to the formation of the current China? This course enables students to throw a glance to both the traditional and contemporary built environment in the Chinese region through an interdisciplinary approach. The course aims at providing an introduction to several selected Chinese cities on a thematic basis, e.g., the vernacular architecture and urban settings for the Hakka tribe in the Southeast Region of China, development Vs destruction in contemporary Shanghai and post-colonial Hong Kong etc. Students are encouraged to interpret city and its urban settings by understanding and considering its traditions, culture, politics, climate and geography as well as the in- between dynamics and tensions of these issues.
A range of themes and locations will be introduced and the students will be studying and investigating these Chinese cities/ towns/ regions as case studies. As the Chinese culture is foreign for most of the students, we shall commence our investigation with these Chinese cities/ settlements with the aid of different resources such as films, photography, documentaries and paintings, as well as journals and literature.
The course includes a sequence of lectures and student presentations. The lectures will provide the historical and theoretical background necessary for the discussion of development issues in a broad perspective. Student presentations will focus on independent research including observations, literature reviews and hence critical thinking.
Directed at: AdUrb
Time: Wednesday, 13:30 16:45, block course, fortnightly (even weeks)
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 17, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Study Project:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig,
Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Kristina Hoffmann
Dipl.-Geogr. Britta Trostorff
Nicole Martin, M.Sc.
wo 16 P Study Project 24 Credits
Gotha's downtown - is it developing to an abandoned city center?!
Governing the development of downtown areas in the face of rivaling new settlements of shopping malls
Since the mid1990s the latest, the negative consequences of large scale commercial suburbanization could no longer be denied. The loss of buyers, shop vacancies, and less attractive city centers as a result of the existence of large suburban shopping malls are main problems that especially small and middle sized cities are still struggling with. Recently, locations chosen for new shopping malls were no longer at the outskirts of the cities but at the fringes of the inner city centers. However, the expected consequences for the city centers are somehow the same as the ones that were experienced from the suburban malls: the shopping mall is assumed to attract shoppers and to direct them away from the city center that in a consequence undergoes a painful loss of functions and attractiveness.
So far, there are no general instruments fixed in German planning law that allow for a comprehensive approach to these politically authorized spatial developments. In some states, though, the instrument of Business Improvement Districts (BID) that is originally coming from the United States is fixed in the legal regulations of the respective state and is applied especially in a few larger cities. For a Business Improvement District a certain inner-city area is defined in which the land-owners and entrepreneurs pay fees to the municipality which are then used in order to improve the quality of the open spaces in this area and thus to increase the attractiveness of the commercial area. This form of public-private-partnership is a direct reaction to the new commercial settlements.
The city of Gotha, 5th largest city in Thuringia with about 46,000 citizens, is currently facing the decision of the town-council for the development of a shopping center next to the historic city center. Using this example, we will reflect the state of art of the relevant scientific discourse and we will work on concepts and solutions how to design and organize a development that finally should lead to a strengthening of the downtown-area, If and in which form a BID could be an appropriate instrument, which steps therefore are necessary or which alternatives could be thought off are main questions we will deal with.
Starting from a synoptic analysis of the existing situation as well as from a market analysis, we will also look to comparable shopping centers and analyze their effects on the inner-city situation in order to come up with alternative scenarios. Furthermore, we will turn our attention to forms of participation and therefore will analyze the different actors. The policies of urban heritage in context to the model of the European city will be part of our work. The legal frame and instruments are a key aspect we will have to consider. Dr. Martin Lailach expert in the field of legal aspects of construction will provide us with the necessary information. Additionally, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc., who initiated this study project, will give a lecture on the perception of shopping centers.
The work in the study project will basically be done in small groups. Works on the site, interviews and other empirical work form an important method within the project. The result of our work will be a recommendation for the experts in charge from the city administration. This recommendation will provide a suggestion how to deal with the new shopping center under the aspects of urban layout, design, economic and market issues as well as of the process itself in a way that the inner-city in its attractiveness and functions is at least not weakened, maybe even strengthened.
Directed at: Master EU, exchange students AdUrb
Time: Thursday, 9:15 15:00
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 11, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Number of participants: max. 30 students
Moderation
Dipl.-Kaufm. Tore Dobberstein
wo 2 Ü Moderation 3 Credits
Introduction to Moderation
Meetings with representatives of different interest groups are important milestones in todays planning processes. The different expectations regarding the outcome of the meeting and the different backgrounds of the participants challenge the diplomatic skills of the planners who lead the discussion.
The lecture teaches fundamental tools to guide group meetings and planning workshops towards a productive output. Practical exercise sessions address techniques to visualize and to moderate planning related issues.
A consensus on multi-interest decisions in the urban context depends on the accurate detection of all different interests of the stakeholders involved and the right analysis of potentially conflicting positions. The implementation of informal planning strategies and dialogue based communication are discussed in the course.
Time: Monday, 09:15 16:45, block course
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start:
Course 1: October 15, 2012. Further dates: Nov 05 / Dec 03, 2012; Jan 14, 2013
Course 2: October 22, 2012. Further dates: Nov 12 / Dec 10, 2012; Jan 21, 2013
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Expertise Mediation
Dr. phil. Bernhard Stratmann
wo 2 Ü Expertise Mediation 3 Credits
Academic skills and research methodology
The exercise course is about deepening and revising students academic research skills, including methodology, basic statistics and study skills such as essay writing. The course is designed for students enrolled in the Masters and PhD programmes in European Urban Studies. However, the topic might be of use to students of other Masters programmes offered by the Faculty of Architecture as well.
Performance record (attestation) will be achieved by regular attendance (80%) and an oral presentation which written basis is appropriate for being published in the virtual course work room. The discussions results that follow the oral pesentations shall be included into the Metacoon-contributions before published there.
IPP-EU and UH-students can achieve a graded performance test. Conditions are the same as for an attestation, but the students achievement will be graded.
Time: Tuesday, 09:15 10:45
Location: Karl-Haußknechtstr. 7, Lecture Hall
Start: October 09, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Number of participants: max. 50 students
Dipl.-Geogr. Britta Trostorff
wo 2 Ü Expertise Mediation 3 Credits
Academic skills
Aim
The aim of the course is to provide students with main skills in order to successfully run an own scientific carrier. The main focus therefore is on the aspects of writing a proper scientific paper and of planning a research project.
Contents
We will look at certain conventions that have to be considered when writing a scientific paper and we will try to understand, why they exist. In order to take the most practical use out of these findings, we will train some of these rules using your own written work so far.
Sooner or later in your scientific career you will face the necessity to conceptualise and plan your own research. Therefore we will look on some general principles and try to work out main steps in this process of doing research.
Requirements
In order to successfully complete the course a continuous and active participation in the classes is required. Students will prepare and present a brief presentation in groups. The course is held in English.
Time: Tuesday, 09:15 10:45
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 007
Start: October 09, 2012
Registration: October 08, 2012, IfEU, Room 003
Number of participants: max. 25 students
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
wo 2 Ü Expertise Mediation 3 Credits
Snow and Methods
With this seminar, the basic idea to come from an interesting theme to a feasible research project will be discussed and trained. After a first meeting, the students will have to read some basic literature on how to design a research project and to sum up their way of methodologically advance on a single page. In January, a two-day workshop in a Thuringian village will be used for getting a more intensive idea of what research is. It will consist of a method training (expert interviews, focus group interviews, narrative interviews) and a review of the personal ideas on every ones personal research strategies.
Directed at: IPP-EU, Urban Heritage
Time: block course
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5, Room 008
Start: Monday, October 29, 2012; 13:30 15:00; further dates: Jan. 22-24, 2013
Registration: until Oct. 01, 2012 via e-mail to Sieglinde.Meinberg[at]uni-weimar.de
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
René Seyfarth, M.A.
wo 2 Ü Expertise Mediation 3 Credits
Urban Minorities II: German-Egypt-Joint Workshop
After the Egypt Revolution, new issues have been on the agenda of urban planners and architects in Alexandria. Once a cosmopolitan city, after the national revolution of the fifties the country has lost contact with its diverse cultural roots. The city is built upon layers of its Roman, Greek, English, French, Italian and Arabic history. Still, the architecture and monuments of this past are embodying much of what Alexandria is proud of. However, the lived by diversity is more than ever threatened. The life of cultural and religious minorities has become marginal.
After this years visit of students and teachers from Alexandria and Gaza, we will visit Alexandria to experience in place the challenges and potentials of the present. This seminar offers an opportunity to the German students to deepen into the general question of urban minorities and to make first or advanced experiences with past and current policies and strategies in architecture and urban planning in the Middle East. The participation in the first part of this series of workshop is no condition. As we suppose that the interest in taking part in the excursion is bigger than the number of places available, we encourage students from all levels (Bachelor, Master and PhD) to send a short (max. 1500 characters) outline on their motivation and what they would like to do within the workshop week to r.seyfarth[at]uni-weimar.de.
The Workshop will take place in Alexandria/Egypt. Costs will be covered by the DAAD!
Directed at: IPP-EU, Urban Heritage
Time: One preparatory meeting in autumn; 9 days of excursion and workshop to Alexandria non-term (prospective: March 2013)
Location: to be announced
Start: to be announced
Registration: until Oct. 15, 2012 via e-mail to Sieglinde.Meinberg[at]uni-weimar.de
Number of participants: max. 15 students
Colloquia:
Dr. phil. Bernhard Stratmann
IfEU Professors
o 4 Koll Colloquium 4 Credits
Master-Colloquium
The course is the platform for presentation and discussion of the Masters theses. The candidates will present the intermediate results of their work on their individual topics. Suggestions for further action will be made by fellow students and academics attending the colloquium.
Admission for the Master examination is required for participation. Performance record (attestation) will be achieved by participation and giving an oral presentation.
Directed at: Master (EU, AdUrb)
Time: Block course, see notice-board
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5
Start: See notice-board
Registration: Not necessary, all students accepted for the Master examination EU and AdUrb have to participate
Jennifer Plaul, M.A.
IfEU Professors
o 4 Koll Colloquium 4 Credits
IPP EU/UH Doctorate Colloquium
The course is the platform for presentation and discussion of the Doctoral theses.
Directed at: IPP EU/UH
Time: See notice-board
Location: IfEU, Belvederer Allee 5
Start: See notice-board