The series of doctoral workshops OPEN RESEARCH for young researchers and doctoral candidates of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences, is organised by the Dean for Research.
Open should be the default, not the exception. Qualitative inquiries need an holistic approach in their specific contextual settings.
OPEN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
In a European context in which architectural knowledge is often associated with sub-disciplinary particularism, the dimension of research is geared of technicalism, leaving into the background those aspects capable of giving the Doctoral candidates the ability to reflect and imagine, to interact actively and meaningfully. However, compared to many other disciplinary and professional fields, the evolution in qualitative research for architecture and design encompasses a relatively wider diversity of methodological approaches. Both the nature and role of architectural research, as conducted in the academy and practice, have gradually shifted over the last decades in some predominant areas, such as the responsive dimension of open spaces, the implementation of post-structuralism, the exploration of digital technologies and applications of sustainable design. Similar fluctuations in the scope of other substantive topics, the significance of particular theoretical influences, innovations in design and planning processes, mean that architectural research will continue to cover a wide range of research in response to changing of the society.To this end, OPEN RESEARCH tables are proposed as an opportunity to confront different Doctoral research lines by putting into practice an exercise on reflection between candidates of LUH, to build and to share the creation of inter-subjective, open and dynamic research opportunities.
Submission of abstracts until 20th January 2019
www.archland.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung
