ARCH526 POLITICS AND SPACE
| Course Code: | 1200526 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. AYŞEM BERRİN ÇAKMAKLI |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The enduring conception of which architecture is an autonomous field of inquiry has long been under critical coercion for there remains a wide spectrum of ideological positions in design to overcome. Viewed from perspectives of critical social theory contemporary exertions in design now problematize architectural discourse and discursive practices within frameworks of power and social transgression. What is so peculiar in these frameworks is the mode of inquiry that no longer expels politics from the insights of architectural intelligentsia yet rather promotes “ideological mappings” to reveal the micro-histories of such discourses. The primary objective of this course, in this sense, is to consider politics, power, and social transgression as crucial spheres that are integral to design discourses and practices.
Course Content
This course explores the forms and the proponents of politics and its uncanny relationship to design fields. Investigating the changing perceptions of idea-political positions it cultivates critical standpoints in understanding how such views first struggle over design and then become instrumental on architectural discourses and discursive practices.
Course Learning Outcomes
This course aims to provide students with a theoretical knowledge and instruments necessary for understanding the space in its social and political complexities. The expected outcomes for students to deliver a critical inquiry over such questions are:
- How or not architecture represents ideologies,
- Ways to draw up diachronic micro-histories in different geographies and their representations,
- The cross-geographic influences of ideologies, and
- Western ideologies in Turkish Modernism.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To be able to integrate the knowledge and understanding gained in the undergraduate program of architecture in a way to include developments in the fields of design, theory and criticism, urban and landscape research, digital design, and sustainability in architecture, and to acquire and comprehend advanced knowledge. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To know the relations of social, cultural, political, economic, technological, artistic and philosophical theories, discourses, methods and tools with the discipline of architecture. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To know the theoretical frameworks and research methods that provide the necessary basis for research in the field of architecture, and to internalize research ethics. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be able to construct and conduct research processes using research methods in the field of architecture and evaluate the results. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To be able to access knowledge from different fields and to use it with an analytical, critical, innovative and creative approach in the context of architectural research. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To have independent learning and scientific research skills. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be able to convey knowledge and research results in a consistent and comprehensible manner with oral, written and visual expression. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To have the ability to research and practice in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary environments. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To be able to apply the knowledge, understanding, problematic definition and solution development skills gained about architecture in different professional and academic contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To be able to develop a critical approach based on knowledge and competence. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | To be able to manage complex and unpredictable situations related to the field of expertise with the awareness of social, environmental and ethical responsibilities and to develop new strategic approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | To be able to conduct independent scientific research in the field of expertise and to be aware of the importance of lifelong learning. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution