Description
The site is the setting for both analysis and design strategies. Site methodologies are an integral part of research and development, tools in which analysis and design inform each other and unfold in a context that today is characterized by time playing as much a role as space, by movement, change, and by place not necessarily staying in place. In this description of the contemporary urban situation, traditional site analysis tools are challenged and although new ways of seeing the site as a dynamic and time affected spatiality are common, we need to continuously develop and challenge our ways of dealing with the dynamics and complexities of sites. There is a need for current methods that are in sync with contemporary urbanity and that can be used in analysis and in the development of alternative design strategies. The PhD course inserts itself into this field and takes as its point of departure the investigation and development of contemporary site methodologies relating to analysis and design strategies – thus Transforming Site Methodologies. Within the title lies a twofold meaning that encapsulates this intention: 1. methodologies relating to the site that have the ability to transform - to influence the future of site and be used as a generating tool, 2. the underlying need for transformation in the field of site methodologies. The PhD course is directed at PhD students working within fields such as architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, planning and related fields. The PhD course will be combined with a research seminar, co-funded by Center for Strategisk Byforskning and the Study board of Architecture and Design, AAU, and directed also at experienced researchers. The 2-day course will be comprised of keynote addresses from researchers and practitioners as well project presentations by the participants. Prior to the course, the PhD student will be required to deliver a 800 word abstract of the paper they will be presenting at the course, in addition to a 200 word description of their PhD project. For the course, the PhD student must prepare a paper for presentation. Each student will have 15 minutes each to present the paper they have developed from the abstract and it is expected that the presentation relates the participant's PhD project to the course theme of site analysis and methods.| Period | 26 Sept 2013 → 27 Sept 2013 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Aalborg, DenmarkShow on map |