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Module 3: Housing Research Methods
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Abstract
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.
Objective
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.
Content
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.
Resources
Lecture Notes
A reader will be distributed at the beginning of the semester containing an overview of all lectures, the involved exercises, and required readings.
Literature
See semester reader.
Learning Materials (Links)
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General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- NDS
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Registration & Places
Course Components
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| lecture with exercise |
Module 3: Housing Research Methods
Keine Lehrveranstaltung am 22.10.2020 (Seminarwoche).
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2 h weekly |
Offered In
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MAS in Housing (1 year full time course in English, starting every autumn semester. Further information on Lectures, workshops, individual and group tutorials and excursions organized in the framework of the four modules: Cultural, socio-economic, demographic and political aspects of housing and human settlements (M1); Adequate housing and neighbourhood development strategies (M2); Housing for migrants, refugees, and people displaced by disasters (M3); Housing research and evaluation methods (M4). Introduction to the MAS Housing: Room HIT H 13 (Date and Time will follow in due time). Presentation of MAS Thesis Proposals: Room HIT H 13 (Date and time will follow in due time).)