Permission from lecturers required for all students.
Selbständige wissenschaftliche Arbeit; persönliche Anmeldung und Themenvorschlag nach Angaben laut www.wohnforum.arch.ethz.ch
The seminar aims to analyse housing in its context. Group discussions, working with literature and data material as well as the elective thesis focus on architectural, cultural, social and economic conditions and processes that influence housing and the modes of habitation.
Learning objective
The students will provide a differentiated analysis on a self-chosen housing-related topic but directly related to the course topic Housing Challenges and Strategies in the Global South a differentiated analysis by considering also its social, cultural, economic and political context. Students learn and/or sharpen their knowledge and skills in working scientifically. The ideal topic of the elective thesis tackle actual problems and propose a structural analysis and solution.
Content
Housing in its complex inter-relations is analyzed in common discussions and reading. Depending on the selected Topic, an architectural understanding of housing will be extended by a cultural, social, technical, economic and/or political reading.
Literature
Literature will be identified in personal discussions and through guided research by the student.
Prerequisites / Notice
Students have to follow the course Housing Challenges and Strategies in the Global South and propose a elective thesis topic with a direct connection to the course content.
Possibility of connection to existing research projects; personal registration and topic suggestion according to information on www.wohnforum.arch.ethz.ch
This elective work - in agreement with the supervisor (besides English and German) can be also written in the national languages Italian and French, possibly also in Spanish.
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)
Performance assessment as a semester course
: Special students and auditors need a special permission from the lecturers