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 

Language
English

Lecturer
Dag Petersson

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, architecture, 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.

Participants should upload/submit their full Ph.D. project description and project plan ahead of the deadline.

Dates
12-16 January + 2-6 March, 2026.

ECTS
3

Application deadline
12 December 2025

Language 

English

Coordinator

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

Other lecturers

Matthew Gandy - 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

1st-5th of December

Venue

Holmen

ECTS

3 

Application deadline

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