057-0101-10L Module 3: Housing Research Methods
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2020 |
| Dozierende | J. E. Duyne Barenstein |
| Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
| Kommentar | Only for MAS in Housing. |
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course offers an introduction to a wide range of research methods currently used in housing and neighbourhood studies. Students will be invited to reflect on the value of using different tools to inform evidence-based design processes and to provide rigorous answers to research question by covering all the steps of the research cycle. |
| Lernziel | This course offers an introduction to a wide range of research methods currently used in housing and neighbourhood studies. Students will be invited to reflect on the value of using different tools to inform evidence-based design processes and to provide rigorous answers to research question by covering all the steps of the research cycle. By combining theory and practice, they will learn to apply them to a specific context and research question. |
| Inhalt | This course offers an introduction to a wide range of research methods currently used in housing and neighbourhood studies. Students will be invited to reflect on the value of using different tools to inform evidence-based design processes and to provide rigorous answers to research question by covering all the steps of the research cycle. By combining theory and practice, they will learn to apply them to a specific context and research question. In order to bring students in close contact with current topics of housing research and first-hand use of spatial research methodologies, the course will provide inputs to an on-going research project carried out by four academic institutes across Europe. “Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe”, explores the publicness of shared spaces in different housing estates and the potential role they could play in sustaining European integration by developing and encouraging diverse cultures not merely to coexist, but to enrich and inspire each other. Understanding public space as the continuous interplay between people and places through the concept of publicness (Varna and Tiesdell 2010; Tornaghi 2015), during this course, methodological exercises will be carried out through fieldwork in two housing estates -Telli in Aarau and Tscharnergut in Bern. -and will seek to answer the following questions: Where does public space take place? How does it emerge? Who participates? Furthermore, students will apply these research methods in fieldwork carried out during the seminar week and finally introduce them into their individual research for their final thesis. |
| Skript | A reader will be distributed at the beginning of the semester containing an overview of all lectures, the involved exercises, and required readings. |
| Literatur | See semester reader. |
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Course only open to enrolled students in the ETH MAS in Housing. |