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.
The course is aimed at offering the candidates a survey of the most relevant contemporary methodologies of architectural research, through a series of seminar meetings where teachers and invited guests illustrate the methods of conception, financing, implementation and dissemination of research activities. The objective is to provide the candidates with the preliminary methodological skills to start their individual researches, by locating their approach within the international cultural debate, as well as considering the possible future development of their outcomes, by screening the opportunities for further fundraising.
The course offers an introductory overview onto theories and techniques of funded research with a specific focus on National and European frameworks. It consists in an intensive one-week seminar, including lectures, case studies presentations, class debates and a practical workshop. Candidates will be trained to the basics of funded research by learning on: different types of funding schemes, basic application rules, general management issues (including dissemination and communication, financial aspect and implementations of the project), etc. Lectures and practical sessions will be aimed at offering a glimpse on how to identify and analyse a suitable call for proposals as a starting point for a successful bid writing.
The Terrirorial Fragilities PhD seminar aims to offer Ph.D students the opportunity to develop a methodological capacity of the project in contexts characterized by fragilities of different types. Starting from a critical -reading, derived from the multidisciplinary and multi-scale maps resulting from a work to be done in common with the other DAStU doctorates, the aim is to achieve the goal of determining theoretical and operational tools to develop a research on the role of the architecture project in areas where the technical or engineering component prevails over spatial and formal issues.
Faculty: Marco Bovati, Jacopo Leveratto, Andrea Oldani Semester: 2nd Credits: 5
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 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, in a learning-by-doing perspective.