PhD Courses in Denmark

In 2024, the Danish School of Education (DPU) at Aarhus University is proud to be the host of ‘the 14th history of education doctoral summer school’, which brings together doctoral students from the whole world to engage in developing their th

This course provides an introduction to contemporary Participatory Design as a particular field of interdisciplinary research and practice. Participatory Design grew out of a concern for democracy and empowerment of users in the development and implementa

Arts-based research is an approach to research in which the researcher uses artistic processes and forms of expressions to investigate a social phenomena. This includes all forms of artistic work and can be Integrated into all parts of the research proces

This seminar arises from a conviction and a challenge. The conviction is that no human body is reducible to its mere materiality. On the contrary, the bodies are made up of a series of ideas that condition them. This implies the s

This course approaches ethnographic analysis, argument and writing as a craft to be learned. Good ethnographic craftsmanship entails giving primacy to empirical material and bringing it into dialogue with theoretical positions to nuance, refine and contra

This course on critique addresses the question ‘what is critique?' from different disciplines within the human and social sciences and examines various historical and contemporary forms of and approaches toward critique. The aim is to incre

Course premise:Working with four interlinked spatial concepts - site, situation, place, and event - we will be asking:How do we move in encountering sites? How can we investigate situations and events through movement? How do we move with(in) designed spa

This course takes point of departure in the 2020 Krogh & Koskinen book “Drifting by Intention – Four Epistemic Traditions from within Constructive Design Research”. It is the claim of the book that designers drift, design research dr

Date: 24th of April 2024, 11.30-14.45Place: Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 139, building 1580, room 249, 8000 Aarhus CLunch (vegetarian) is included when signing up.APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17 April 2024 at 10.00 AMThe past several decades have

Description:Life is the main thing, and meaning is the main thing in life. This can be illustrated with the help of the following parable: A barefoot man finds a single gold coin and converts it into two silver coins. With one coin, he buys a plate of ric