Type:Module/Examination
Language:English
ECTS-Credits:4.0
Scheduled in semester:3
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:8.0 L / 6.0 h
Self-directed study time:114.0 h
Module coordination/Lecturers
- Assoz. Prof. Dr. Lindsay Blair Howe
(Modulleitung)
Curricula
Master's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2019)Master's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2024)
Description
This optional module allows for various kinds of research studies. It is closely connected to the five units of the Liechtenstein School of Architecture and is usually part of ongoing research projects. The supervision consists of directing the students towards clear results within a given field of research. The individual study is reviewed within the respective unit.
Urbanism, Architecture & Society:
Do you like writing, or want to gain more experience scientific writing?
Are you interested in learning about and applying methods of urban research?
Want some credit points for that?
Urbanism, Architecture & Society Unit (UASU) is happy to support independent study projects utilizing our methods and approaches, either (1) pursuing questions relevant to our group, or (2) supporting you in finding your own research questions. We can provide topics for independent study related to our research areas in the Alpine Rhine Valley, as well as various locations across the Global South.
We also encourage aligning independent study projects with our other concurrent courses including: Raum & Gesellschaft, Studio Jozi, Urban Theory, Planning & Places, Architectural Theory, or Pro Bono.
Qualifications
- understand the broad issues of sustainability in a defined research area.
- follow a given research topic and develop it coherently into a clear result.
- manage their own learning within a research project.
- identify a research topic and develop it coherently into a clear proposal.
- analyse data and situations under guidance, using a range of techniques and methods appropriate to the subject.
- critically evaluate evidence to support research topics, reviewing its reliability, validity and significance.
- explain competently, discuss and critique their own work through oral presentation, writing or visual communication.
- understand how to work with confidence in the complex organisational and community settings within which the applied methods and design processes are typically deployed.
- collaborate in teams and support each other during the learning process.
- gain confidence in their own role in collaborating with an ongoing research project.
Admission Requirements
Registration via the intranet of the University of Liechtenstein is not binding and is only valid in combination with the written consent of the respective unit. This applies to all Individual Electives in the Master's degree programme in Architecture.
Literature
Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.
Exam Modalities
4 ECTS, 8 LE ( 114 h private study time)
Fieldwork and text analysis (written submission)
Start, final submission and presentation can be individually
defined with the respective tutors.
Comments
Individual appointments will be set with the tutor.
You can register for this independent study alone or in a group. For registration and enrolment, please get in touch with Lindsay Howe: lindsay.howe@uni.li
Exams
- Independent Study: your own project (UA&S,4 ECTS) (WS 24/25, bestätigt)