RMB 9 - Social Aspects

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

Seminars and Practical Group Work (Workshop).

Learning Outcomes

To develop critical reflexions concerning participation processes

To develop analytical methodologies to map the use of a building or urban area

To develop design methodologies to engage users in the design process

To Introduce research methodologies in social sciences, namely participant observation and photo-elicitation

To translate architecturally the social content of design

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Session 1, Presentation of the Course (PPr, SX, PPx)

Module 1

Session 2, Photo-elicitation, Seminar. Paulo Peixoto

Session 3, Photo-elicitation, Workshop, Groups of four students. Paulo Peixoto

Module 2

Session 4, Ethnography and Participant Observation, Seminar. Sandra Xavier

Session 5, Ethnography and Participant Observation, Practical, Groups of four students. Sandra Xavier

Module 3

Session 6, Architectural Ethnography, Seminar. Paulo Providência

Session 7, Architectural Ethnography, Workshop, Groups of four students. Paulo Providência Session 8, Assessment and Results Discussion (PPx, SX, PPr)

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report on visual methodologies ( module 1) - 30 %+Ethnography (module 2) - 30%+Architectural Design ( module 3) - 30 %+Final Assessment and Results Discussion - 10%: 100.0%

Bibliography

Emerson, R. M.; Fretz, R. I. E Shaw, L. L., (1995), Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research, in Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Londres, The University of Chicago Press: 1-16.
Flood, N., (2019). “Drawing on Thick Descriptions in Architectural Pedagogy”, Irish Journal of Anthropology, 22(1), 328-335.
Harper, Douglas. «Talking about Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation». Visual Studies 17, n. 1 (Janeiro de 2002): 13–26. doi:10.1080/14725860220137345.
Ingold, T. (2014), That’s enough about ethnography! in Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4(1): 383-395.
Kajima, Stalder, Iseki (2018) Architectural Ethnography.Tokyo: Toto.
Moniz, Gonçalo Canto (2017), Dialogue with the community and photo elicitation for reuse of modern buildings design studios: a pedagogical experience in Michel Melenhorst, Uta Pottgiesser, Christine Naumann, Theresa Kellner (org.), RMB Conference 2017.Detmold: Hochschule OWL (University of Applied Sciences), 79-89.