6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4018481BNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
In this course theorizations of space will be linked to contemporary urban design and planning praxis and different research methods to analyze the urban environment. In addition to the work of scholars in social and spatial disciplines that tried to capture the relationship between space and society, voices from the progressive, feminist and postcolonial urban design and planning tradition – who have engaged with these methods and have drawn attention to diversity, subjectivity and epistemology in planning – are treated in this course. The course is supported through an inductive approach and empirical qualitative research methods.
Students will learn how to analyze and interpret the complex and ambiguous relationships between space and social relationships by approaching and researching a site from various methodological angles. The course exists of lectures, readings and fieldwork sessions. During the fieldwork sessions, basic research methods will be trained and applied in a specific Brussels neighbourhood.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 80% of the final mark.
PRAC Teamwork determines 20% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The assessment consists of the following categories:
1. Participation and group assignments during fieldwork sessions determine 20% of the final grade
2. Written examination determines 80% of the final grade
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 1 (Bachelor via SCH of VRB) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 2 (Master indirect) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 3 (Bachelor of Master direct) (only offered in Dutch)