AUID PhD Program activates different kinds of teaching forms, including courses, seminars, project workshops, laboratories. Teaching activities cover the basic research issues (problems, theories, methods), which represent the founding element of AUID Program and identify clearly its cultural position.
Professors: Alessandro Rocca, Andrea Gritti, Stamatina Kousidi
Being part of the first year of the AUID program, the course wants to enhance the candidates’ research projects through a deeper understanding of design-driven research processes. Therefore, it will refine and strengthen their research goals and identify the appropriate research methodologies to achieve these goals by questioning architectural projects and research.
The course offers an introductory overview of theories and techniques of funded research with a specific focus on European funding schemes. The objective of the module is to set preliminary skills for bid writing. Lectures and practical sessions will offer a glimpse of identifying and analyzing the right call for proposals as a starting point for submitting a successful research proposal.
The methodological frame of AUID program is the design-driven research, where design is the cultural environment to test and produce theoretical and technical knowledge. For this reason, every year, the program organizes some workshops that offer the possibility of verifying theoretical and methodological thesis into architectural design.
Professors: Marco Bovati, Jacopo Leveratto, Andrea Oldani
The workshop, which will be held in direct continuity with the course of Techniques and Practices of Research, is aimed at making the candidates experiment with the knowledge previously acquired on the topic, through a learning experience focused on the construction of a concrete research project. The objective is to make candidates familiar with the methodologies, the strategies, and the techniques applied to answer a real call for funded research, from a learning-by-doing perspective.