Elective at semester(s) 7, 9, ECTS: 3
Generic Competences: Ability to search for, process and analyse information from a variety of sources using the necessary technologies, Ability to adapt to and act in new situations and cope under pressure, Ability to make reasoned decisions, Ability to work in a team, Ability to work in an international context, Ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment, Ability to interact constructively with others regardless of background and culture and respecting diversity, Commitment to conservation of the environment, Ability to demonstrate social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues, Ability to be critical and self-critical , Ability to promote free, creative and inductive thinking.
, Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
This course aims to connect contemporary artistic practices with site-specific, natural or social, spatial frameworks.
Today, both artistic and architectural practices hold inter-human relations and their interaction with their surrounding / space as the core pursuit of their creative endeavours.
However, historical spatial and social particularities from the past persist and intertwine with contemporary urban and rural life, acting as a key variable in both artists' and architects' research.
In this course students are asked to chart out and map a designated area of study based on sociological, anthropological, cultural or geographical research and data. This mapping process will become the core tool for this course as they are able to examine on a first hand basis issues related to social interactivity and sociability in relation to spatial layout and infrastructure.
Research methods in this course will include the use of:
Maps
Geographical research Systems
Sample surveys
Archival research
Fieldwork
Photographic / video documentation
Interviews
The winter semester course aims at mapping selected towns and villages in the plain of Thessaly. Case studies are devised to create a new data guide for each region and to identify the needs of their residents due to state apathy. Each guide must contain an appendix - a proposal on improving the social infrastructure of the selected area.
Students are divided into groups of three and each group carries out research-survey-mapping of their desingated area.
Research required to be carried out with on-site visits where all necessary information and data is collected and recorded.