Topic outline

  • General

    This is a lecture-based course that meets seven times on Mondays between 26th October and 7th December at 13.15-15. Each week you’re provide a zoom-link via Announcements that is used for sharing information during the course. Please, notice that  all lectures is compulsory (one absence can be compensated with an additional assignment). 


    You’re warmly welcome to explore research methods applied in the realm of housing design and residential environments!

     

    Pre-assignment: 

    Deadline for submitting the pre-assignment is Monday 26th October at 9 a.m.

    Submission folder including the assignment and related material: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/mod/assign/view.php?id=636702

     

    Weekly assignments: 

    Before lectures II–VI, you are provided a text (article, book chapter) written by the next lecturer. Lectures and discussion are based on this material so it is necessary that you book time for reading this material. Make notes that you can use when writing reflection.  

     

    Reflections: 

    Our last meeting is dedicated to your ideas regarding the theme of this course. 

    Deadline for submitting this assignment is Friday 4th December at 4 p.m. 

    This the last part of this course. The assignment will be added to MyCourses before our first meeting. 

     

    Lectures:

    I           26.10.    

    Introduction (Anne Tervo) 

    First lecture: Constructing a survey: Solo dwellers’ domestic spatial needs and housing design practices 

    (Jukka Hirvonen, City of Helsinki, Executive Office, Urban Research and Statistics & Anne Tervo, Lecturer, Housing Design, Aalto University)

    II          2.11.     Developing design research method 

    (Karin Krokfors, Professor of Urban Design Practices, Aalto University)

    III         9.11.     Collecting and analysing interviews: Case study on skilled migrants' housing pathways 

    (Elina Eskelä, Planner at the City of Helsinki Executive Office) 

    IV        16.11.    The triangulation method: planning documents, questionnaire and workshops 

    (Ira Verma, Researcher, Research Group for Health and Wellbeing Architecture, Aalto University

    V          23.11.     User-centred design research – dwelling as a product 

     (Antti Pirinen, University Lecturer, Spatial and Service Design, Aalto University)

    VI        30.11.    What can we share? A design game for developing the shared spaces in housing

    (Anne Tervo, Lecturer, Housing Design, Aalto University)

    VII       7.12.     Reflections: Discussing future 

    (Anne Tervo & Antti Pirinen)

      

    Teacher in charge: Anne Tervo (anne.tervo@aalto.fi)