Nach positiver Absolvierung der Lehrveranstaltung sind Studierende in der Lage, eine akademische Seminararbeit zu verfassen. Diese Kompetenz behinhaltet, dass die Studierenden ein adäquates Thema für ihre Seminararbeit identifizieren können, dass sie wissen, wie sie sich im bestehenden Diskurs um ihr Thema orientieren können. Sie lernenn, wie man adäquat mit Quellen und Zitaten umgeht und sie üben sich in kritischer Reflektion und sorgfältiger Artikulation: Sie lernen die dialektische Kunst kennen, eine These sorgfältig zu erörtern, und eine eigene Argumentation zu entwickeln. Dabei lernen die Studierenden die Architektur als einen Ort des aktiven Denkens kennen, der sowohl materielle wie immaterialle Sachverhalte betrifft und diese verbinden kann. Weiters sie haben den richtigen Umgang mit dem Zitieren und Bibliographieren gelernt, Grundprinzipien der Bibliotheks- und Internet Recherche, sowie Grundformen des Argumentierens. Sie können ein Thema so fassen, aufgliedern, organisieren und strukturieren, dass es in einer Seminararbeit wissenschaftlich erörtert werden kann. Sie können wissenschaftliches von journalistischem Schreiben unterscheiden.
So What?
Daydreaming at the Crossroad of Architecture and Music
What? A proposal for daydreaming at the point of “So what?” where nothing–at a conceptual level–could only be itself. A polycentric seminar rethinking the boundaries of aurality and spatiality… Dwelling on the metaphor of orbital movement, it allows participants to follow interdisciplinary paths through philosophy, architecture, and music in which the path never remains the same and the continuous questioning becomes a perpetuum mobile.
As the relation once of a physical reality, audial and spatial, rushes to gain a complexity it evolves into music and architecture. To be able to deal with this complexity we need to dwell on overarching concepts and mobilize them.
Within this polycentric setting a question rises like a mountain in the midst: How could we generate an articulate thinking in a sophisticated, yet humble and novel manner?
How? The seminar dwells on the tripartite structure of thinking, reading, and expressing. Accompanied by reading and presenting text clusters, participants are expected to raise individual questions laying the foundations of a structured research process. A non-physical displacement through brain-and-ear-storming online meetings with guests to discuss novel ways of understanding the relation between the aural and spatial awaits participants.
Submission of a seminar paper is required.
Why? Outcomes of this seminar could be set forth as a set of "awareness," starting by perceiving the overarching importance of theory. As active contributors to the seminar participants get accustomed to theory in a-temporally and contextually-polycentric layout. On the one hand, confronting clusters of ideas and learning how to mobilize them throughout the process of research, on the other hand, being able to transform this process of critical thinking to a novel synthesis without compromising creativity. Scheduled fieldtrips and meeting guest scholars aim participants to become aware of the importance of intellectual and spatial surroundings as inputs. Through a selected reader list and its group presentations participants get the opportunity to practice individual and group-working skills.
First meeting: Tuesday, March 9th, 2020, 4 pm.
Scheduled for Tuesdays, 4-6pm Online.
https://tuwien.zoom.us/rec/share/MXLSMWvhwNjfORDp3T-n-dECmy-6O4Q2aCSeKxRemggKd8TiEurJ5jH8s-6a-EgV.Xi3MfdpQJyB0V_OJ?startTime=1613119549000
The course will be alternate between lectures, followed by discussions, and articulated to a preparatory exercise, and readings of selected excerpts from the seminar literature (around 30 pages/session). The work in preparation for the research paper will be discussed at intervals, and participants will present it in a collective session, in the manner of a symposium.
All the texts will be made available on TISS in advance.
At the end of the seminar, participants will be asked to produce an academic paper on a topic related to the themes discussed in class. The paper will have to be written in English. Examples of previous seminar papers can be found at the following link:
http://www.attp.tuwien.ac.at/wahlseminar-architekturtheorie-ss2018
Only participants attending the course and delivering the scheduled exercises will be admitted to final evaluation. Attendance and participation are therefore mandatory.
No previous knowledge of music is required. Participants are required to possess a good knowledge of English and be able to read and write in such language with a sufficient degree of orthography and comprehensibility.
ATTENTION: 259.268 Ringvorlesung Methodologie der Architekturforschung ist Voraussetzung
