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:
In collaboration with the Integrated Sustainable Development (ISD) Foundation and their interdisciplinary team, you are invited to be part of an ongoing neighborhood development project in Oniipa, in northern Namibia. ISD is conducting a pilot project to define alternative modes of urban development that are sensitive to places, empower residents with limited financial resources to flourish, and are designed according to socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable principles.
The research can be formulated around one of the three following topics:
1. methods of participatory planning to inquire about cultural practices and socio-economic needs of future residents;
2. context-specific, effective, and applicable urban planning tools, and coordination with local planning authorities; and
3. economically viable strategies (including e.g. green technologies) to ensure the high-impact implementation of civic infrastructures.
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)
Start, final submission and presentation can be individually
defined with the respective tutors.
Comments
Individual appointments will be set with the tutor.
Group projects are also possible, as well as group work with individual submissions.
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: Namibia (UA&S,4 ECTS) (WS 24/25, bestätigt)