Course syllabus for Crash course: Beyond sustainability

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Course syllabus adopted 2021-02-02 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).

Overview

  • Swedish nameIntensivkurs: Hållbar framtid
  • CodeARK620
  • Credits4.5 Credits
  • OwnerMPDSD
  • Education cycleSecond-cycle
  • Main field of studyArchitecture
  • DepartmentARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
  • GradingTH - Pass with distinction (5), Pass with credit (4), Pass (3), Fail

Course round 1

  • Teaching language English
  • Application code 17114
  • Maximum participants25
  • Open for exchange studentsYes
  • Only students with the course round in the programme overview.

Credit distribution

0117 Written and oral assignments 4.5 c
Grading: TH		 4.5 c

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Eligibility

General entry requirements for Master's level (second cycle)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Specific entry requirements

English 6 (or by other approved means with the equivalent proficiency level)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Course specific prerequisites



Aim

The unprecedented social, ecological and economic emergencies the world faces today, and will face in the future, urge for a more radical and responsive approach in architecture and urban design that moves beyond sustainability. The course aims to develop your personal and professional code of conduct, and your own manifesto beyond sustainability. It introduces specific techniques and methods within various fields of research or discourse. It trains the students’ ability to design and analyze through an iterative and explorative process.

Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)

Knowledge and understanding
Demonstrate a deepened understanding of methods, techniques and processes required to handle complex design issues within the field of architecture and urban design.
Conceive, analyze and/or realize architectural ideas through representations, prototypes and/or virtual or material processes.

Abilities and skills
Make advanced use of design media (e.g. drawings, diagrams, mapping, geometry, models, mock-ups, video, virtual reality, geodata, etc.) in order to inform and drive their design process.
Use the above in order to develop a design project of limited scope.
Analyze and communicate their designs through various modes of representation.
Appropriately devise refined types of representation to highlight specific conceptual issues and/or sensory qualities.


Ability of assessment and attitude
Promote the value of refined means of representation and prototyping in architecture.
Critically relate their own work in the course to a larger issue or question in architecture, as outlined in the brief.

Content

The work in the seminar develops through explorative studies within a specific range of design media and through a design project of limited scope. The brief is formulated so that it targets a current issue or debate in the field of architecture and urban design. Students are required to critically relate their work in the seminar to larger issues outlined in the brief.

Organisation

The brief and its context is introduced in an introductory lecture. Learning is structured around a weekly set of demonstrations, tutorials and pin-ups. Deliverables are defined at the outset of the course through weekly assignments and through the final review. Students work individually or in teams.

Literature

To be announced in a bibliography in each course brief.

Examination including compulsory elements

Student projects will be presented verbally according to requirements (e.g. drawings, models, media, text) outlined in the brief and assessed in a final review with invited guests at Chalmers Department of Architecture. Each student project is further reviewed after submission. A minimum of 80% active attendance / participation in lectures, pin-ups, demos and visits is required in order to pass the course.

The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers on educational support due to disability.

The course syllabus contains changes

  • Changes to course rounds:
    • 2021-10-21: Max number of participants Max number of participants changed from 32 to 25 by PA
      [Course round 1]