Through studio work and/or field trip(s) students get an insight into the particularities of the specific case study and site, and how to carry out fieldwork (under consideration of research ethics). The specific landscape is explored, documented and mapped in the field and by other available sources, such as maps and written material. The analysis of all material and the design process are carried out within a studio framework.

Within this framework, students explore different theories, concepts, and methods that are relevant for the development of the design project, and test their application and relevance in an iterative process.

The students are guided through the project by lectures, short presentations, assignments as well as continuous feedback to the developing work. Feedback is provided by the responsible staff, and in the form of peer reviews, in one or two interim reviews as well as the final review.

In the course of organized teaching, conducted by the tutors, suitable input is presented, regular feedback is provided, the project development is guided and supported, and reviews allow the students to develop and defend their work.

Guidance to relevant references, precedents, best practice, literature, or other elements of the professional canon will be provided.

• Compulsory 80% attendance (participation) in all scheduled studio sessions.

• Compulsory presentation of the individual studio outcomes at studio tutoring and feedback sessions, and all reviews. The students have to present their work in a prevalent way (prevalent forms of graphical and oral presentation of design-research work).

• Active participation in the developing project discussion with the tutors, peer students and invited reviewers.

• Active and coherent participation throughout the term in order to produce and aggregate work for the portfolio. The portfolio is not to be produced at the end of the term but is expected to be developed in a continuing and coherent mode of individual practice during the term. This process is closely guided by studio instructors and will lay out the specific expectations - typically on a weekly basis.

• Students are expected to demonstrate weekly progress in the development of the proposal and project development in iterations of conducting research and testing it in a design application.

• On a trial and error basis of continuous testing and vetting of their ideas, students take responsibility to drive their individual proposals and project. Instructors (critics) provide guidance and assistance.

• Using graphic tools for exploration and visualization of this process. Presentation of the studio outcome(s) at interim reviews and the final review.

Portfolio.

All submissions have to be submitted in the English language.

Total workload of 375 hours.

A maximum of 93.75 hours (= 25% of 375 hours of the total workload per student) will be structured teaching, consisting of lectures, assignments, tutoring and feedback sessions, short presentations, reviews, and peer reviews.

The remaining 75% of the students’ workload (= a maximum of 281.25 hours) have to be dedicated, by each student, to the related studio work, in the form of self-study. This is where those materials and outcomes have to be generated, which are presented and discussed with the students, in the studio sessions as such (during structured teaching).