Pedagogical Profile

The profiling of ResArc is made through thematically and pedagogically well-prepared series of courses, seminars and workshops. These activities welcome PhD students, supervisors, senior researchers and experts, in meetings that foster a wider and deeper development of competence.

Phd Courses

PhD courses constitute a main activity in ResArc and participation in the course pro-gramme is the central conjoining mechanism of the research school. The ResArc courses assure a subject-specific range of contents related to architectural theory, history, materiality, socio-spatiality, design and practice.

Recurrent Courses

Recurrent thematic courses (7,5 HEC each) are offered and arranged by ResArc. These courses are designed to meet and support temporary and conditional interests of research and are developed and run in close working relation with the strong research environments Making and Effect. The overall format of a thematic ResArc course includes a theoretical introduction (phase 1), an exercise where approaches and methods are tried (phase 2), and a public result such as an article, an intervention or exhibition (phase 3). At least one of these phases could include a situation-specific investigation.

Complementary Courses

Complementary courses can be designed on shorter notice and need not be recurrent. They may emerge in relation to specific interests stated by the students, or in order to catch an emerging interesting topic in the field. If several students have similar interests, special courses can be organized within the frame of ResArc.

Upcoming ResArc PhD course - Approaches in Theory and Research Methodology of Architecture

The doctoral course Approaches aims to introduce basic questions in theory and methodology as well as to develop the doctoral students’ understanding of the relationship between epistemology, ontology, and methodology. It focuses on activities of:

- Knowledge building on doing research
- Developing one's' own knowledge and skills through writing

This framework includes both practice-oriented research and well-established theories and methodological traditions (More info).

The course is held in four intense modules of two days each. At least two of them will be delivered in both physical and hybrid form, two modules will be given on Zoom.

Module 1 is held at UMA, December 4-6, 2024
Module 2 on Zoom, 28-29 January 2025
Module 3 on Zoom, March 10-11, 2025 (optionally at KTH in Stockholm)
Optional: writing training seminars in small groups, April 8-9, 2025
Module 4 at TU Delft, June 4-5, 2025

Course instructors Janina Gosseye (TU Delft), Ebba Högström (UMA), Meike Schalk (KTH), and Roemer van Toorn (UMA).

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024.

Contact: Meike Schalk, meike.schalk@arch.kth.se

The course is a collaboration between the Architecture Schools of The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Umeå University (UMA), and TU Delft.

Courses:

Erlier courses:

ResArc PhD course - Communications

Knowledge communication in architectural research, 7,5 credits

The course addresses knowledge communication both broadly and in-depth, including different forms of communication and communication with different audiences. This includes different media and formats – e.g., written communication, visual material, exhibitions – and how these work in relation to different contexts.

The course is hosted by KTH and will start on February 6 2024. It runs during the spring semester with recurring meetings every month, ending in August (More info).

For questions regarding course contents, structure, relevance for your studies, or if you can participate, please contact Daniel Koch (daniel.koch@arch.kth.se) or Johan Örn (orn@kth.se). For preliminary application and/or expression of interest, please contact Daniel Koch, and include information about your subject/field of research, university, and doctoral programme no later than January 20 2024.

ResArc PhD - Philosophies

Philosophies in Architecture

Drawing on current thinking and key sources in philosophy, this course addresses a world in flux, marked by unforeseen happenings and non-linear processes of transformation. Conditions of unknowability, uncertainty and indeterminacy have traditionally been neglected or even ignored within architecture, ostensibly posing a threat to the permanence and stability assumed by the discipline. The matter-of-factness and increasing urgency of these conditions, however, compel us to approach them creatively and to investigate the opportunities they hold for architectural theory and practice.(More info)

Dates:

Module 1. 22-23 March 2023

Module 2. 19-21 April 2023

Module 3 17-19 May 2023

Deadline for final paper: 20th June 2023

The course is offered by The School of Architecture KTH, Stockholm in collaboration with ResArc: Swedish Research School in Architecture

The course is open for doctoral students in architecture or adjoining fields who have an
interest in architectural theory and the course’s theme. To be qualified for the course, students must have completed a masters’ degree in architecture or have an equivalent level of education.

Application deadline:1 February 2023.

Please send your application toto Catharina Gabrielsson cga@kth.se and mark the email F1A5051.

ResArc PhD course in the series of Tendencies in Architectural and Urban Research

Situating Research: Approaches, Ethics, Collaborations, Writing

This course will address questions regarding how to position oneself as a researcher within an extended field; and approaches to writing. The course will have a strong focus on writing, combining taught seminars and writing workshops; and is relevant for PhD students in architecture, urban planning, landscape design, and other fields related to the built environment. The course is open to PhD students at both ResArc partners universities (Chalmers, Lund and KTH) and other universities.

Dates:

(Format: Mainly via Zoom with also some on-site components)

Module 1. 24-25 November 2022

Module 2. 15-16 December 2022

Module 3 19-20 January 2023

The course is coordinated by the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology as part of the Swedish Research School ResArc.

Application deadline: 31 October 2022 (more info).

Expressions of interest: At this point, we welcome expressions of interest by contacting:

Professor Isabelle Doucet isabelle.doucet@chalmers.se (course coordinator)

Professor Monica Billger monica.billger@chalmers.se (Vice head of Dept. PhD Education).

ResArc PhD course: Approaching research practice in architecture

7.5 credits

Place: Zoom

Time: 5 modules, December 2021-June 2022, followed by an exhibition in autumn 2022, peer-review and publication of papers to appear April 2023

The course gives a perspective on theoretical and methodological trajectories of practice-oriented research in architecture. It provides an overview of how theory and methods are addressed concerning forms of knowledge in architecture, with a focus on explorative, reflexive, and critical research methods rooted in the humanities, social sciences, and STS. Notions of different scientific traditions, paradigmatic shifts, and inter- and transdisciplinary research are presented and discussed in ways that are particularly useful for enrolled and emergent doctoral researchers pursuing practice-oriented research.

This doctoral course is a collaboration between KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm and the Department of Architecture at the Technical University Munich (TUM) with the BauHow5 consortium and the Swedish Research School ResArc.

Deadline for application 20 November 2021. (More info)

ResArc PhD course: Communications

Exhibiting Architecture, or Architectural Exhibitionism

Spring/Summer 2021

This doctoral course (7,5 credits) is concerned with the communication of architecture through exhibition. Exploring the architectural exhibition both as subject and method, this course will investigate means for scholars in architecture and related fields to correlate critical discourse with societal concerns, and to communicate such means both inside and outside their disciplines. Concerned about architectural exhibitionism, or how architecture has exhibited itself over time, this course argues that contemporary architecture is not only put on stage but is likewise (re)constructed and (re)defined through the very means of communication itself. Hence, to communicate architecture through exhibition is a contemporary act.

Dates:
Modul 1. 26-29 April 2021

Modul 2. 9-10 June 2021

Modul 3. 1-2 September 2021

Coordinators:
The course will be coordinated and taught by Per-Johan Dahl (Lund University) & Whitney Moon (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Deadline for application 7 April, 2021. For more info (pdf)

ResArc PhD course: Philosophies

Philosophies in Architectural and Urban Research: Risk, (in)security, indeterminacy

The course (7,5 credits) addresses uncertainty as an overbearing condition of present-day societies – integral to the organisation of labour, the provision of housing, processes of urbanization, flows of migration, forms of valuation, financial speculations, democratic development and climatic tipping points – along with the subsequent efforts to safeguard, establish and control a territory.

Modul 1 (v. 50) 9-11 December
Modul 2.(v. 3) 20-22 January
Modul 3. (v.7) 17-19 February
Modul 4 (v. 12) 24-26 March

Coordinators:
The course will be coordinated and taught by Catharina Gabrielsson, associate professor and docent, and Sebastiaan Loosen, post doc, both at The School of Architecture KTH.

Deadline for application is 30 of October 2020. Apply by sending a statement of interest to cga@kth.se

For more info: https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/F1A5051?l=en (pdf)

Tendencies - Acts of Memory/ Practice of Remebering and Forgetting

In this course we address memory as a theme of research, both from a theoretical and from a methodological perspective. The course is focused on exploring aspects of memory and acts of assembling and harvesting documents of collective experience. The content of the course is particularly devoted to photography as part of performing architectural research and as a practice of remembering and forgetting. For more information (pdf).

Module I: 27-28 January 2020

Module II: 2-3 March 2020

Application to the course due by 15 of November 2019. Apply by sending a statement of interest to resarc@arkitektur.lth.se. Final dates, schedule and pre-course assignment will be announced after the deadline.

Responsible and contact Sandra Kopljar, sandra.kopljar@arkitektur.lth.se and Emma Nilsson, emma.nilsson@arkitektur.lth.se

Communications - Staging the Message. The Architecture of Communication

The ResArc Communication course intends to offer participants in-depth theoretical and practical tools for communication and media production.

With the course Staging the Message. The Architecture of Communication we will analyze, discuss, learn, test and develop – with the support of excellent scholars and practitioners from the field of the image, writing, editing, and curating architecture publications and exhibitions - how the form(at) of your dissertation/research – right from the start, and during the development of your research as a whole – can enable you to critically reflect and develop its content through the interplay between content and form; while the chosen and developed form also will enable you to broadcast, (edit, communicate and mediate) your ideas (content) to an audience within our

information age at large.

While Module 1 will look into different formats, editing and communicative strategies of the architecture book (including the one of dissertations) Module 2 will specifically address how you as an architecture researcher can edit/stage the message through the format of the exhibition. Module 3 (optional, for another 2.5 credits) invites all participants to present their individual PhD dissertation formats for a panel of different research, curating and media experts in the field of architecture communication.

Module I: November 21-23 2018,

Module II: February 20-22 2019,

Module III: March 2019,

For more information, course material, assignment, public lecturers, tours, and forum discussion see also the course description (pdf).

Application to the course due by 31st of October 2018. Apply by sending a statement of interest to resarc@arkitektur.lth.se.

Responsible and contact Meike Schalk (meike.schalk@arch.kth.se), Roemer van Toorn (roemer.vantoorn@arch.umu.se).

Past ResArc Courses

Communications - Staging the Message. The Architecture of Communication

Nov 2018-March 2019

Course description

Philosophies

Feb-Sep 2018