INTERN KALENDER

The PhD course gives a broad introduction to research within the fields of design and architecture aimed at PhDs in the early stages of their project. It will help PhDs to form a general understanding of research within the fields with a particular focus on research by design. It addresses questions of structuring research, developing research questions, planning of research, choice of methodologies and contextualisation of research.

The course will use the PhDs individual research projects as source material to help the participant to arrive at a better understanding of how to situate their research while developing and sharpening the focus, content and methodologies of the projects.

12-13 September – Research in the design fields / Research Question
The first part of the course introduces research within the fields of design and architecture. We discuss the participant’s research projects through workshops. The role of the research question in the design fields is introduced.

26-27 September – Discourse analysis / Historiography
The second part of the course focuses on the contextualization of the research, the understanding of the research traditions of the field and the discourse analysis of analytical and theoretical texts.

10-11 October – Research methods/ Research design
The third part of the course addresses the choice of research methods and the formation of a research design to plan and structure the research process.

The course format includes lectures by instructors and guests, group discussions and workshops. Participation requires preparation (approximately three days) before and in between the three parts of the course (about 5-8 days) as well as active participation in all course activities. Participants are encouraged to participate in all parts of the course, but it is possible to join parts.

Course instructors: Richard Herriot, Claus Peder Pedersen and Anders Troelsen.
Target group: PhD fellows within design and architecture, and related fields in the early stages of their PhD.
ECTS Points: 6
The number of participants: Up to 12
Deadline for signing up: 16 August

A reading list will be provided.

Please sign up by emailing Mia Mimi Flodager mmf@aarch.dk

Please attach a short description of your research project.

Forelæsningsrækken “Grundlæggende forelæsninger om arkitektur” kredser om det grundlæggende spørgsmål ”hvad er arkitektur”?
Hvor kommer arkitekturen fra, hvordan har den udviklet sig gennem tiden og hvordan manifesterer den sig som den nødvendige, men (forhåbentlig) også berigende og inspirerende fysiske ramme om menneskers hverdagsliv? Arkitektskolens professorer vil på skift forsøge at besvare disse spørgsmål, via forskellige blikke på arkitekturens udvikling og samfundsmæssige rolle.

Onsdag d. 2. oktober holder Mogens A. Morgen forelæsningen “Kulturarv”. Om forelæsningen skriver han:

“Om den arkitektoniske kulturarv forstået som en kultur, der har udviklet sig kontinuerligt gennem historien til et rigt katolog, som skabelsen af ny arkitektur betandig lægger nye lag til. Kulturarven som en kollektiv erindring, en kobling af fortid, nutid og fremtid, som ved hele tiden at blive genindskrevet i en samtidig kontekst, gives nutidig relevans.”

Photobook Week Aarhus celebrates its sixth edition from 3 to 6 October 2019. The festival is an open forum for discussions on the photobook as a medium.

This year Photobook Week Aarhus and Art Weekend Aarhus will be cooperating and several activities and exhibitions will be featured on both platforms.

Photobook Week Aarhus’ main venue is the library at Aarhus School of Architecture. The festival programme is dedicated to talks and exhibitions about publishing, researching, distributing, buying, trading, and collecting photobooks. You can also purchase new as well as vintage photobooks at the festival.

Photo: Anne Elisabeth Toft

A significant part of Photobook Week Aarhus 2019 will focus on the relationship between architecture, photography and photobooks. As Anne Elisabeth Toft, Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture and one of the curators of Photobook Week Aarhus, explains:

“The festival takes its point of departure in the legendary photo exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” from 1975. This exhibition, curated by William Jenkins of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York, introduced a whole new approach to architecture – and landscape photography. The exhibition not only led to a renewed interest in and understanding of the genre of documentary photography, it also brought about a new and expanded view on landscape architecture; a view which has been crucial ever since. Common to many of the photographers whose photographs were featured at the exhibition was their interest in and documentation of the urban and of urban and industrial landscapes undergoing transformation. The invited photographers included among others: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore as well as Bernd and Hilla Becher.”
Photobook Week Aarhus will follow up on cultural currents and single historical events that led to the emergence of the new topographic photography in the United States and Europe. In talks and panel discussions, the festival will also shed light on the significance of the new topographic photography for landscape photography and landscape architecture in the Anthropocene.

You can read more about Photobook Week Aarhus and see the programme at http://photobookweek.org

Arkitektskolen Aarhus fejrer i år Arkitekturens Dag med champagne, når vinderen af fotokonkurrencen Photo Of The Year skal kåres. Arrangementet afholdes i samarbejde med Akademisk Arkitektforening Østjylland.
Statens Kunstfond uddeler også årets Dristighedspris som en del af arrangementet.

Photo Of The Year er en international arkitekturfotokonkurrence for arkitektstuderende, og udover præmieoverrækkelsen vil der på Arkitekturens Dag også blive åbnet en udstilling med de bedste bidrag fra konkurrencen.

Dagen starter med en festtale ved skolens rektor Torben Nielsen, og så vil der være prisoverrækkelse ved Hans Peter Dinesen fra Dinesen og en Architects Talk ved vinderen af Photo Of The Year.
Derefter vil Ellen Braae, der er formand for Legat- og Projektstøtteudvalget for Arkitektur under Statens Kunstfond uddele årets Dristighedspris.

Photo Of The Year er sponsoreret af Dinesen og Dryers Fond.