Kursusprogram 2023

Course facilitators
Margrethe “Gæk” Bredahl – Librarian – mbre@kglakademi.dk
Søren Peter Mørch – Librarian – smor@kglakademi.dk

Dates
4th and 5th of December 2023 - both days from 9:30 to 15.00 with an one-hour lunch break.

Course descripton
This course is specifically aimed at PhD students in the beginning of their writing process. The course will consist of a mix of lectures, discussions, and exercises. We encourage you to share your knowledge and experiences during the course.

Part 1: Information search in specialised databases and the open web.

The first part of this course will enable you to conduct advanced academic information searches. We will explore the search process from defining a strategy to evaluating and documenting your search results. You will learn how to carry out comprehensive literature searches based on your own research assignment. We will guide you through the various information seeking steps from selecting relevant search strategies and techniques to evaluating your search results.

-       Evaluate databases and other information resources

-       Set up search strategies and use various search techniques

-       Identify relevant types of information resources

Part 2: Reference management, citations, and bibliography.

The second part of the course will teach you how to use a reference management tool to keep track of the literature and other sources you need for your research and how to use the tools to manage and overlook your research process. 

-       Introduction to Zotero – please install and register before the course at              Zotero.org. Use your institutional e-mail for unlimited storage. Need help            then contact: mbre@kglakademi.dk 

-       How to autogenerate citations and bibliography entries in various styles              as part of your search- and writing process

Part 3: Publishing and sharing your research

This third part of the course will introduce you to the publishing workflow, Open Access, the PURE portal, and other aspects of the research cycle.

-       Open Access and copyright-negotiation with publishers

-       How to register your research and CV in our PURE research portal

-       Introduction to the publication workflow and platforms for Academic                 exposure and findability such as ORCID

The course will consist of lectures, exercises and discussions.

Preparation / Homework

-       A short description of your PhD-project

-       How have your information- and literature search strategies been up                  until now?

-       Send to research@kglakademi.dk 

Language
English/Danish

ECTS

0,8 ECTS

Application Deadline
15th of November 2023 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Instructor
Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard, ph.d.  |  annavera@sigsgaard.com 

Course Aim

The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to aspects of academic writing of scientific articles in English in terms of grammar and structure as related to genre and function, while providing time for participants to work on their own articles.

The course is inspired by a functional grammar and genre-based approach and will include examples of generically appropriate sample texts with related exercises, as well as structured writing time for participants to work with their own texts.

The course will be taught in English; however, participants are welcome to ask questions and do group work in Danish.

Full participation earns 3 ECTS points.

Prerequisites
In order to participate in the workshop, participants must have at least started the writing process on an article (or if need be, a chapter in their monograph) – this can be as little as having written an abstract and/or a disposition over what the article will address, or as much as a rough draft or sketch of the article.

The course works best if you have an idea of what you want to write, and have a few pages of text that you can work with, as these will be the basis for participants’ revision/writing exercises. Time will be made available each day to revise, write and edit your article draft during the workshop with sparring from the other participants and from the instructor.

Participants are expected to have a working level of written English language skills at the tertiary level. This workshop focuses on genre-specific language patterns and conventions in academic writing and is not a language/grammar course.

Contributions
Participants should find and bring an example of what they would consider a good article relevant to their field of research. Please send this article in PDF format to annavera@sigsgaard.com a couple of days before the course starts. We will use these articles for analysis and comparison during some of the exercises.

Participants must bring a computer / tablet for working on their own and other’s drafts (remember a power cable if necessary).

Readings
Relevant literature and readings will be made available prior to and during the workshop.

Course Content
Course content will cover the following topics, prioritized depending on participant needs:

• Genre and text style in articles and papers
• Moving from more spoken-like to more written-like, academic language
• Text structure at the whole-text, paragraph and clause levels
• Text density and clarity
• Punctuation and citation

Suggested Program
The following is a preliminary program; content may be adjusted prior to and during the workshop based on participant levels. Adjustments may also be made underway, depending on participant requests.

The course runs over 3 days.

Day 1: Wednesday January 11th, 9:30 - 15

• Introduction
• Your Academic Writing Profile
• The Structure of an academic article (at the whole-text level)
• Thematic structures at the whole-text level
• What is a paragraph (and paragraph structures)
• Transitions and transitional devices
   

Day 2: Thursday January 12th, 9:00-15

• Stages in the introduction
• Referring to other people’s work
• Condensation of meaning around central concepts
• Structure at the clause-level (Theme-Rheme)
  
  

Day 3: Friday January 13th, 9:00-15

• Coherence and cohesion (making sure your sentences fit together)
• Constructing findings: connecting your data (what we see) with theory (what we know) in your analysis
• Making your language more written like
• looking at noun- groups and nominalizations

Application deadline

The enrollment limit for the class has been reached.

Ansvarlige // Coordinators
Dag Petersson

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
Through this course, students obtain insights in the fundamentals of academic research practices. Particular focus is on crafting a proper academic object, formulating a good problem statement, structuring one’s data collection, and getting a first grasp on method, theory and analysis. This introduction is primarily for Ph.D.-students from the art, architec-ture, and design schools, aiming particularly at those who are in the early phases of their projects Teaching is based on the participants’ individual project descriptions. No previous experience with academic production is expected. The goal is to critically identify each project’s inherent academic requirements and preferred strategy, and to help students meet the established academic criteria and standards from early on.

Datoer og sted // Dates and location
16.-20.01.2023
The course will be offered on-campus in Copenhagen.

Min. og max. deltagerantal // Min. and max participant
5-12

ECTS // ECTS
3

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline
16.11.2022 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Course leader
Thomas Harboe, Program Director, PhD, University of Southern Denmark

Target group
PhD supervisors and PhD students at KADK.

Dates and place
The course will take place on January 31 and February 1, 2023 at KADK. The room number will be supplied after registration.

Content 
The course will address themes such as the relationship between the supervisor and the PhD candidate, process-focused supervision and how to handle different phases of the PhD proces, supervisor roles, communication and feedback techniques, collaborating with colleagues, and handling ethical dilemmas in doctoral education.

The goals of the course are that the participants will:
- gain a concrete and operational toolbox for feedback and organising PhD supervision meetings
- understand the complexities involved in PhD supervision
- acquire process-related knowledge about PhD supervision.
- be in a position to reflect on their own supervising practices now and in the future.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Thomas Harboe at harboe@sdu.dk

ECTS
2

Registration
December 1, 2022 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Ansvarlig // Coodinator
Dr. Emanuele Naboni (Affiliate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Associate Professor University of Parma)

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
This course aims to support Ph.D. students wishing to conduct research within the Design Disciplines and enter the academic world. The objectives of the course are four:

1) to understand the academic world coordinates
2) to grant breadth, fostering the development of a Ph.D. thesis Structure and other academic essays
3) to give depth to research work, by converging on the development of a solid methodology and customized Research Methods (for Design and Scientific Disciplines)
4) to address all the aspects of the Management of a Thesis and relations to stakeholders

From the introduction to conclusions, producing a Thesis Structure is a further challenge: the course, uniquely based on participants' thesis work, proposes a step-by-step guide to devising a Structure that strengthens Parts and Chapters' organization and connections. Either Ph.D. researchers have just started their Ph.D., or are closing it; each participant will grasp the essential, iterative process by which research questions generate Knowledge.

Critical to the Process is the vast range of Research Methods suitable for the diverse array of topics germane to Design Research (e.g. research by Design, Qualitative Research design, Correlational, Experimental, Simulation, and Case Studies). When logical, participants will be seeking ways to marshal the benefits of two or more Research Methods applied to their investigations to build a solid Methodology.

Weaved with Structure and Methods is the “Thesis’ Management”. It is here set a high emphasis on the "adventure" of being a research student. It is addressed how to get started, get through revisions, face deadlines, and how regulate the workload. The issues of working with supervisors, the varied stakeholders (comprising the ones of industrial Ph.Ds.), academic peers and the final examiners, are treated. The topic of dissemination along and after the Ph.D. is also debated.

The course offers a cohesive approach that will help PhD students succeed in their academic paths. 

Datoer // Dates

Monday, May 1st 

9am to 12am + afternoon individual work 

Entering the academic world. Academic Keywords. Manage the Structure of Thesis and its Parts. Focus on the foundations: Introduction and Research Goals. A closer look into your thesis Core and Synthesis.

Tuesday, May 2nd

9am to 12am + afternoon individual work 

Principles of good academic writing, and a guide to scientific production along the PhD. Methodology: a focus on the art of fostering Research Methods 

Wednesday, May 3rd

9am to 12am + afternoon individual work 

Writing, Viva, Attributes of a Successful thesis. Other Academic Activities along with the PhD, Time and Energy Management, Management of relation to the thesis stakeholders

Thursday, May 4th 

9am to 12am + afternoon individual work 

PhD Structure and Table of Contents presentations and final debates.

Min. og max deltagerantal // Min. and max participants
Min 6 - max 12

ECTS // ECTS
4

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline
1st of March 2023 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Ansvarlig // Coordinator

Joost Grootens

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
The focus of this course is on maps as formats of spatial representation, visual communication and graphic production. The sessions consist of a reading of seminal texts on cartography (representational cartography, critical cartography and post-representational cartography among others) and visualization (semiology of graphics, visual-verbal rhetoric, rhetoric of neutrality and humanist approaches of visual knowledge production among others), and lectures that approach various mapmaking practices from a critical and practical point of view. Participants are also invited to develop their own mapmaking project, or bring samples of what they have already produced, and at each session these maps will be discussed.

The course is targeted at PhD candidates in design, architecture and other fields who have an interest in maps and information visualizations as spaces of spatial representation and visual communication.

Datoer og sted // Dates and location
02.02.2023, 13:00–16:00
23.02.2023, 13:00–16:00
16.03.2023, 13:00–16:00
13.04.2023, 13:00–16:00
The course will be offered on-campus in Copenhagen.

Min. og max. deltagerantal // Min. and max participant
6-12

ECTS // ECTS
3

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline
02.12.2022 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Ansvarlige // Coordinators
Isak Worre Foged (IBD) and Phil Ayres (IBT)

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
Materials are an embedded part of design thinking, design experiments and design making, both in academia and industry. It is a central aspect of creating the transition to a sustainable society, but also a core aspect of how we develop experiential phenomena for everyday activities.

We engage with materials constantly, but how do we study materials, material processes and material representations in design research?

This course focuses on illustrating and debating research strategies and methods for design driven material studies and material driven design studies. This means to form a dual research platform of both quantitative and qualitative investigations that enable new insights across the design scales. The course is structured around 3 activities:

    1) Initiating with a 2-Day seminar, where invited speakers and participating PhD students will present and discuss research approaches.
    2) This is followed by a 2-Day workshop on how to advance the methodological approaches of the student specific projects.
    3) Submission of a method-oriented article for publication in an anthology. (optional)

PhD students are invited to contribute along established researchers in both academia and industry for the anthology. The article submission gives additional 2 ECTS.

Datoer og sted// Dates and location
21-22 February 2023: Seminar
14-15 March 2023: Workshop
The course will be offered on-campus in Copenhagen. 

Min. og max. deltagerantal // min. and max partipants
10-20

ECTS // ECTS
3+2

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application date
21 December 2022 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Ansvarlig // Coordinator
Sissel Olander

Øvrige undervisere // Other lecturers
Eva Brandt, Professor, Designskolen Kolding
Maria Foverskov, adjunkt, Designskolen Kolding
Anne Louise Bang, Ph.d., Docent, VIA University 

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
The choice of Ph.d. research methodology or approach(es) largely influences the results and arguments one is able to make. Within design research, during the last decades research-through-design (Frayling 1993) or more broadly practice-based approaches have been emphasized and richly elaborated. The course has a special focus on research programs and how practices of making – often described and considered as experiments – play a core role in the development of new knowledge. During this Ph.d. course we will give an overview of these different developments and characteristics of research-through-design - especially in a Scandinavian perspective.

The course is comprised of a two-day Symposium (2 ECTS) followed by a later two/three-day Seminar (3 ECTS).

The Symposium includes: Lecturers introducing and engaging in dialogue about different perspectives on and characteristics of research-through-design – with special focus on ‘research programs’ and experiments; smaller reflective exercises and a hands-on workshop / meta-experiment to assist the participating Ph.d. scholars in elaborating their own approach and position in relation to parts of the course literature.

The later Seminar includes: group analysis, discussion and presentation – in a methodological perspective - of a collection of research-through-design Ph.d. dissertations. Additionally, the participating Ph.d. scholars will present their own position in terms of research approach(es) and roles of the practical work, and will give and get verbal individual feedback from staff and one other student.

Preparation prior to the Symposium and the Seminar will be rather substantial in terms of readings. A compendium of texts will be provided as well as examples of practice-based PhD dissertations. Each student is to read one of these dissertations intentionally matching the student’s research interests. Preparation for the Seminar also includes individually making a theoretically and practically grounded presentation of one’s own research methodology / approach(es) and giving feedback to one other student.

Datoer og sted // Dates and place
15th and 16th of May 2023 (Kolding School of Design)
16th, 17th and 18th of August 2023 (The Royal Academy, Holmen)

Min. og max. deltagerantal // Min. and max participant
6-16

ECTS // ECTS
5

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline
15.03.2023 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

ACADEMIC WRITING WORKSHOP – WRITING AN ARTICLE

Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard, ph.d. 

annavera@sigsgaard.com

Venue

Aarhus School of Architecture

Course Aim
The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to aspects of academic writing of scientific articles in English in terms of grammar and structure as related to genre and function, while providing time for participants to work on their own articles. The course focuses on the language features and structures of academic articles, though can also be useful for participants working on other kinds of academic writing as well, such as monographs, literature reviews etc.

The course takes its point of departure in a functional grammar and genre-based approach and will include examples of generically appropriate sample texts with related exercises, as well as structured writing time for participants to work with their own texts.

The course will be taught in English; however, participants are welcome to ask questions and do group work in Danish. The course incorporates a distribution of instructional activity types including instructor presentations, structured pair, and group work as well as time for individual writing on participants’ own drafts.

Full participation earns 3 ECTS points.

Prerequisites

To participate in the workshop, participants must bring a rough draft or sketch of the article they wish to work on, or at least have started the writing process on an article (or if need be, a chapter in their monograph). In other words, participants should have an idea about the article’s main idea/contribution as well as an outline for the article as well as several paragraphs of text to work with during the three days of the course.   

The course works best if you have an idea of what you want to write and have a few pages of text that you can work with, as these will be the basis for your revision/writing exercises. Time will be made available each day to revise, write and edit your article draft during the workshop with sparring from the other participants and from the instructor.

Participants are expected to have a working level of written English language skills at the tertiary level. This workshop focuses on genre-specific language patterns and conventions in academic writing and is not a language/grammar course.

Contributions

Participants should find and bring an example of what they would consider a good article relevant to their field of research. Please send this article in PDF format to annavera@sigsgaard.com a couple of days before the course starts. We will use these articles for analysis and comparison during some of the exercises.

Participants must bring a computer / tablet for working on their own and other’s drafts (remember a power cable if necessary).

Readings

·         Relevant literature and readings will be made available prior to and during the workshop.

Course Content

·         Course content will cover the following topics, prioritized depending on participant needs:

·         Genre and text style in articles and papers

·         Moving from more spoken-like to more written-like, academic language

·         Text structure at the whole-text, paragraph, and clause levels

·         Text density and clarity

·         Punctuation and citation

Suggested Program

The following is a preliminary program; content may be adjusted prior to and during the workshop based on participant levels. Adjustments may also be made underway, depending on participant requests.

The course runs over 3 days.

Day 1: Wednesday November 1st, 10:30 – 15:30

Introduction

Your Academic Writing Profile

The Structure of an academic article (at the whole-text level)

Thematic structures at the whole-text level

What is a paragraph (and paragraph structures)

Day 2: Thursday November 2nd, 9:00-15

Stages in the introduction

Referring to other people’s work

Structure at the clause-level (Theme-Rheme)

Transitions and transitional devices

Day 3: Friday November 3rd, 9:00-15

Coherence and cohesion (making sure your sentences fit together)

Constructing findings: connecting your data (what we see) with theory (what we know) in your analysis

Making your language more written like

looking at noun- groups and nominalizations

To sign up for the course, please email PhD Coordinator Mia Mimi Flodager / mmf@aarch.dk  no later than on Oct. 9th, 2023

Ansvarlige // Coordinators

Kirsten Marie Raahauge

Øvrige undervisere // Other lecturers

Masashi Kajita
Ole B. Jensen (AAU)
Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description

The making and shaping of the human environments (interior or urban) are never value neutral. Design, architecture, and planning create the material and spatial conditions under which humans re-reproduce values, norms, social relations and cultural contexts. To design something is to create the fertile grounds for human practices and activities; design both reflects and transforms its societal context. Either this relationship is overlooked, or it is simply presented as an a-priori positive relationship. Design and normativity are inseparable, as are the positive and negative outcomes for humans within such frames. An open mind towards the valorization of normativity in design is therefore a precondition for establishing mature, reflective, and sustainable design thinking and design. Design intended to improve the life conditions of humans, typically exclude some people, and include others. Therefore, the question is not only whether design is good or bad, rather it is, for whom it is productive, and for whom it is a disadvantage. Furthermore, imaginaries about what is “improving” life conditions are also implicitly normative. 

The course has three levels: First, it offers an operational framing of critical-creative theories and concepts from the humanities, social sciences, and critical design thinking. Secondly, these are illustrated through cases drawn from the research of the lecturers and reaches across from urban space and mobilities, over interior and domestic design to design for development and questions of critical disability studies. Thirdly, the course also requires participants to present their research projects within the framing of ‘design and normativity’, here, will be given detailed feedback from the lecturers.

Datoer og sted // Dates and location

15.11.-17.11.2023
The course will be offered on-campus in Copenhagen. 

Min. og max. deltagerantal // Min. and max participant

6-20

ECTS // ECTS

With paper: 4 ECTS

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline

15.09.2023. Application via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

15.10. submission of paper. Papers should be addressing the theme of the course. Length: maximum 2.000 words + an image.

Ansvarlige // Coordinators
Henrik Oxvig, Associate Professor, IBBL
Martin Søberg, Associate Professor, IBK

Øvrige undervisere // Other lecturers
Ulrik Schmidt, Associate Professor, Roskilde University
The course is organised in collaboration with Roskilde University, Department of Communications and Arts. 

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
Exploring New Materialism explores the ideas and concepts of New Materialism and their implications for current theory, criticism and practice in the fields of architecture, art, the humanities and social sciences. The course pays particular attention to questions of fluidity and its potential for fostering ontological, epistemological, ethic, and aesthetic considerations.

How do different forms of fluidity – and associated notions of flow, flux, circulation, currents, turbulence, wetting and flooding – condition the being and becoming of subjective, social and environmental assemblages? And what are the implications of such fluid materialities for the ways we produce, perceive and conceptualize material objects and events and how we reflect on such processes? Exploring New Materialism: Fluidity explores how attention to fluidity as a material condition and conceptual perspective can guide, challenge and stimulate theoretical and empirical studies of materiality and material artefacts.

Based on readings and discussions of selected texts by thinkers such as Jane Bennett, Gilles Deleuze, Dilip da Cunha, Astrida Naimanis, John Durham Peters and others, the course intends to focus on the integration of ideas and perspectives from or related to New Materialism into the student’s own research with particular attention to fluidity and materiality.

The course includes a lecture by an invited international speaker.

Datoer og sted// Dates and location
09.-10.11.2023 and 23.-24.11.2023
The course will be offered on-campus in Copenhagen. 

Min. og max. deltagerantal // min. and max partipants
6-40

ECTS // ECTS
3

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application date
09.09.2023 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Ansvarlig // Lecturer
Jonna Majgaard Krarup

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description
The biologist D.G. Haskell writes: ‘We’re all — trees, humans, insects, birds, bacteria — pluralities. Life is embodied network. These living networks are not places of omnibenevolent oneness. Instead, they are where ecological and evolutionary tensions between cooperation and conflict are negotiated and resolved. These struggles often result not in the evolution of stronger, more disconnected selves but in the dissolution of the self into relationship.’

If we apply this understanding to landscape architecture and to the design process one must address the role of the materials in conceptualizing designs.

Besides being famous for helping decipher the code created by German Enigma machines in the Second World War, Alan Turing, also worked with plant morphogenesis; a process of form generation through growth, differentiation and continuous variation whereby form emerges from the interplay of forces and movement of matter. Do we try to think landscape architecture as an embodied network, and the architect as an active part of an interplay of forces and movement of matter in the design process, then an effect is a dissolution of the architect’s self as the form giving master, and the outcome of the process a kind of ‘naturoid’ (Negrotti 2021). But it also raises questions on how to understand and work with concepts and ideas like regenerative design, recycling and up-cycling in landscape architecture.

The course evoves around critical readings and reflections (in writing by the participants) on these ideas and problems, both framing the course and defining the course content. 

Datoer og sted // Dates and location
22-24 March 2023

Min. og max. deltagerantal // Min. and max participant

4-10

ECTS // ECTS
3

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline
22 January 2023 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php