40 334 Ecology and Economy (Autumn 2025)

Facts about the course

ECTS Credits:
6
Responsible department:
Institutt for arkitektur
Course Leaders:
  • Matthew Dylan Anderson
  • Lisbeth Funck
Lecture Semester:
Autumn
Teaching language:
English
Study level:
Second degree level
Duration:
½ year
Reading list (Leganto)

The course is connected to the following study programs

Course description

Ecology and Economy builds on Studio Positions’ ongoing program of studio teaching, aiming to develop new, critical and sustainable perspectives in architecture through combined artistic and theoretical investigations. Students will critically examine the legal, economic and spatial circumstances and consequences of selected historical and contemporary case studies of humans’ actions regarding nonhumans (for e.g. animals, the environment, + +). Students will approach specific case studies from various artistic and theoretical positions through reading together, film screenings, site visits, guest lectures and through their own practical and written investigations (works and words).

Learning Outcome

Knowledge:

Demonstrate knowledge on:

  • the legal, economic and spatial circumstances and consequences of human actions regarding nonhumans, and architecture’s role,
  • human/nonhuman interactions at local, territorial and global scales, and
  • the ethical concerns regarding architectural practice.

Interpret the aforementioned knowledges into disciplinary action.

Skills:

  • Carry out artistic and theoretical investigations, individually and in groups.
  • Handle architectural tools: drawing, spatial investigations (analogue and/or digital), written and oral descriptions, presentations.
  • Apply architectural competencies and insights to interdisciplinary challenges.
  • Discuss how human actions effect the world at different spatial and temporal scales.

General competence:

Contribute to:

  • the development of new and critical perspectives in architecture in a changing world, and
  • the maintenance and development of ethical positions regarding architecture.

Utilize interdisciplinary knowledge as basis for architectural thinking.

Communicate architecture’s role in securing livable (sustainable) futures.

Teaching

reading together

film screenings

site visits

guest lectures

students’ own practical and written investigations (individual and group work)

one week workshop - works + words (elective course week)

Compulsory attendance requirement:

Students are expected to be present on elective days + elective course week. The final reviews are mandatory.

Examination

Form of assessment: Project assignment

Grading scale: Pass/fail

Assessment criteria: Students are assessed on:

- individual project assigment and presentation (elective course week)

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