Graduate Seminar: Situating Research

This course aims to provide graduate students at the School of Architecture with a general introduction to different modes of conducting architectural research, while creating opportunities for cohort building, social exchange, and skills development. Students will engage in a series of dialogues with a number of Architecture faculty, PhD researchers, and other guests--particularly within the areas of climate change and sustainability, social justice, and design computation and artificial intelligence. Students will also visit a variety of research labs and centers on and beyond campus, and use course assignments to develop reflective modes of academic practice. The coursework is designed to provide a springboard for students to start situating themselves and their work within the landscape of architectural research and scholarship--at CMU and beyond.