Ansøgning til ph.d.-kurser

Language

English

Coordinators

Henrik Oxvig, Associate Professor, Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Martin Søberg, Associate Professor, Institute of Architecture and Culture

Other lecturers

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

Course description 

Exploring New Materialism: Force explores the ideas of New Materialism and their implications for current theory, criticism and practice in the fields of architecture, design, art, the humanities and social sciences. The course pays special attention to the question of force and its potential for fostering ontological, epistemological and aesthetic considerations.

Inquiring into force is highly pertinent in the light of the climate and biodiversity crises as well as of contemporary challenges concerning democracy, sociopolitical conflict, vulnerability and global social stratification. But the question of force also points to fundamental questions concerning the operations of matter and the sociomaterial environment, for instance: energy and physical dynamics; matter and movement; violence, power, tension and aggression; material metamorphosis and transmutation; capture and emancipation; emergence and entropy; creation and destruction; images, imaginations and sensations of/as forces; life and death, etc.

The course investigates how attention to force vis-à-vis material conditions and conceptual perspectives can guide, challenge and stimulate theoretical and empirical studies of materiality and material artefacts. What are the implications of force for the ways we produce, perceive and conceptualize material objects and events and how we reflect on such processes?

Based on discussions of texts by thinkers such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Karen Barad, Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari – plus an international guest lecture – the course focuses on the integration of ideas from or related to New Materialism into the student’s own research.

Dates

6th-7th of November, 20th-21st of November 2025, four all-day sessions including reading sessions, keynote lecture, presentations, and discussions.

Venue

Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation

ECTS

3

Application deadline

6th of September 

Sprog // Language

Danish/English

Ansvarlig // Coordinator

Jonna Majgaard Krarup 

Øvrige undervisere // Other lecturers

TBA

Kursusbeskrivelse // Course description 

Discussions on nature and landscape fill the professional and the public debate – many ask themselves how to reconnect with nature, how to reestablish nature’s own balance, they explore and argue for nature-based solutions, and eco system services etc. An over-arching question concerns the human- non-human relation and how it is translated and negotiated and represented.

Seen from a professional landscape architectural perspective this interest is, on the one hand, very gratifying. On the other hand, the fact that the increased interest is related to global warming, resource exhaustion and biodiversity loss is discouraging.

Many of the questions are asked by researchers coming from other disciplines – for example philosophy, sociology, law, and biology, but touch upon and have relevance for landscape architectural, spatial, and aesthetic and ethical aspects. 

The questions also offer the opportunity for the landscape architectural discipline to re-visit and possible to re-connect with its theoretical and methodological legacy, and to re-position itself in an even wider and/or better(?) disciplinary context and framework.

The course is structured in a colloquium format, where the participants' active participation with written contributions based on their own research topics and research questions, together with joint literature studies and presentations, both define the framework and content of the course.

Datoer // Dates

1st and 2nd of December 2025

Lokalitet (fysisk fremmøde/digitalt) // Venue (physical attendance/online)

Depending on the number of international participants the course can be given as an on-line course.

ECTS

3

Tilmeldingsfrist // Application deadline

1st of August 2025 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Language 

English

Coordinator

Gustavo Ribeiro, Associate Professor, IBBL, The Royal Danish Academy

Other lecturers

Matthew Gandy (to be confirmed). Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography, Cambridge University

Jonna Majgaard Krarup – Professor, IBBL, The Royal Danish Academy

Course description 

The challenges posed by the climate and biodiversity crises have given rise to an urgent need to rethink urban planning theory and practice. 

There has been an increasing focus in urban studies, notably in the last decade, on the need for addressing the challenge of human exceptionalism in urban theory and practice. As several authors have pointed out, efforts to reconceive and retheorize urban planning in more-than-human terms as well as concrete endeavours to implement more-than-human approaches in planning practice face challenges and dilemmas (Houston et al. 2018), which permeate ideological and discursive practices as wells as concrete planning frameworks - legislation, projects, planning platforms, processes, amongst others. 

In this course we will explore key theoretical and analytical work that engage in discussions of the inclusion of more-than-human perspectives in urban planning and how such perspectives may contribute to a reconfiguration of planning practice.

The course programme will consist of a masterclass (1 day) with an international expert/academic. We already have been in contact with Matthew Gandy concerning inviting him to lecture at the Royal Danish Academy and will invite him to contribute to deliver af master class. The remaining 4 days of the course will include lectures delivered by the course coordinator Gustavo Ribeiro (discussing the theme of the course in relation to key theoretical positions) as well as academic staff at IBBL doing research on the theme. 

Students will be asked to do extensive reading prior to the beginning of the course. They will also be asked to prepare a 10-15 min. presentation concerning a reflection on the theme of the course and its relevance for their PhD work.

Dates

20th- 24th of October 

Venue

Holmen

ECTS

3 

Application deadline

1st of August via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Language

English

Coordinator

Kirsten Marie Raahauge

Other lecturers

Prof. Alison J Clarke, Vienna University of Applied Arts (master)

Associate prof. Masashi Kaijita

Associate prof. Ane Pilegaard

Course description

The course consists of three elements: 

A one-day seminar with an excursion, small lectures, and debates, where all the teachers are involved. 

A one-day study circle with presentations of texts by the students and discussions of themes and texts in plenum.

A one-day seminar with presentation of papers by the ph.d.-students, commented by Alison Clarke, and discussed by all the teachers, ending with a lecture by Alison Clarke

The making and shaping of the human environments are never value neutral. Shaping the life conditions for humans, design, architecture, and planning creates 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. 

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 on cases drawn from the research of the lecturers and reaches across from design studies over interior and domestic design to questions of critical disability studies. Thirdly, the course also requires participants to present their research projects within the framing of ‘design and normativity’; they will be given detailed feedback from the lecturers.

Dates

26.11.-28.11. 

Venue

Holmen

ECTS 

4 

Application deadline

31st August 2025, the course will be open for applications six months prior to the course date(s)

A paper of 1.000-1.500 words and an image should be submitted in RUM, deadline 10th of October. Papers and images should be addressing the theme of the course as well as the focus of the PhD-project. Length: 1.000-1.500 words + an image. One can apply via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php  

Sprog 

Dansk (engelsk hvis nødvendigt)

Ansvarlige

Arne Redsted Rasmussen & Morten Ryhl-Svendsen

Kursusbeskrivelse

Kurset er en introduktion til arbejdsgangen omkring skrivning og publicering af artikler til videnskabelige tidsskrifter. Deltagerne vil stifte kendskab til forskellige artikeltyper, peer-review systemet, og få præsenteret eksempler på videnskabelige publikationer.

Introduktion til den videnskabelige artikels enkeltdele gives ved klasseundervisning. Der vil indgå en stor andel af selvstudie og selvstændigt arbejde, herunder udarbejdelse af et manuskript til en artikel, efter eget emnevalg, til intern fremlæggelse og kritik på modulet. Dette vil kræve forberedelse på ca. 5 timer per undervisningstime.

Pensum: Gastel, B. & Day, R.A.: “How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper” (9th Ed.), Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2022.

Datoer

D. 11., 18., 25. september og d. 2. og 9. oktober.

Lokalitet

Holmen

ECTS 

5

Tilmeldingsfrist

18. juli 2025 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php