Seminar Cross Domain City of the Future

The Cross Domain City of the Future seminar focuses on the challenges linked to the transformation of our cities, specifically to:

- analyze and understand which factors, tendencies, (design research) approaches, technological innovations, development, and governance models will play a role in shaping the future of our cities.

- study relevant examples and/or best practices around the world and compare them.

- collect data into research books to be shared among the participating students.

- argument and develop the investigations (research positions) into a written article.

Multiple aspects / disciplinary perspectives regarding the (research design) project will be presented by the involved researchers in interactive sessions. A.o., the following topics will be discussed: transportation, connectivity, new mobility concepts, housing challenges, hydraulic structures and flood risks, climate change mitigation, cultural planning, health and private, public and semi-public spaces, circular economy, politics, resiliency, and adaptation strategies.

The seminar challenges students to develop critical and comparative investigations focusing on specific insights and positions to be determined within the (research) framework of the studio/students' group.

- Writing Assignment

- Analytical Assignment

Next to the participation in the seminar, the assessment of the course will enclose a writing assignment:

Option 1, a position paper

Option 2, a report of the thematic seminar sessions related to a personal research standpoint.

The assessment criteria will be:

-Is the paper or report coherent/concise, regarding structure and clearness of style?

-Is the language adequate?

-How did the paper or report follow the review comments?

Problem field and research question:

-Has a research question / standpoint been clearly defined?

-Has the question / standpoint been developed beyond its initial formulation?

-Does the paper / report acknowledge a state of the art, regarding this question?

Societal and scientific relevance

-Is the paper /report relevant to the studio theme City of the Future from a societal point of view?

-Is the paper / report relevant to the studio theme City of the Future from a scientific point of view?

-Has a position been taken, in relation to this state of the art?

Theoretical and operational frameworks

-How is the paper / report connected with the graduation topic?

-Are the sources pertinent, and well used and is the use of reference and own words balanced?

-Does the paper / report follow a clear approach / methodology and shows scientific quality?

On the scale of 10, the student achieves a sufficient result with the final grade of 6; If failed in the first attempt student are offered the possibility of a repair. The repair has to be completed within 2 weeks after the completion of the course and will be graded by either O (fail) or V (pass).