Material Studies in Architecture and Design
The Royal Danish Academy, the PhD School
Language
English
Lecturer(s)
Isak Worre Foged and Phil Ayres
Course description
Materials are an embedded part of design thinking, design experiments and design making, both in academia and industry. They also form a central leverage point in the transition to a sustainable society, and a core aspect of how we develop experiential phenomena for our design targets.
We engage with materials constantly, but how do we study materials, material processes and material representations in architecture and design research?
This course focuses on illustrating and debating research strategies and methods for material studies in architecture and design. This implicates the forming of a dual research platform of both quantitative and qualitative investigations that enable new insights across the design scales.
The course is structured around two activities:
1) A course preparation period, where participants review literature and develop assignments,
2) a mixedseminar/workshop where invited speakers and participating PhD students will present and discuss research approaches, followed by a workshop on how to advance the methodological approaches of the student specific projects
Dates
17-19 of August
Venue
On Campus
ECTS
3
Application deadline
20/06-2027 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php