The Research Colloquium is an introduction to each other and to the faculty, including interests and approaches. In each session we will be joined by a different member of the faculty who will also have suggested readings for that week. The material assembled here is diverse but connected through prevailing interests in bodies in space, whether in terms of biopolitical manipulation or in terms of post-occupancy analysis. Through encounters with some of the key texts in the many disciplines and specialties within the Daniels Faculty, the colloquium will foster connections between some of these specialties and will be a way for students to think laterally about their own work as they begin the program. The focus of the semester will be on the discussions around each week’s reading.

Participants will be responsible for several presentations over the course of the semester, weekly postings, and two semester-long projects: an annotated bibliography and a proposal for an academic conference.

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• critically engage debates across a range of subdisciplines within architecture, landscape, and design;
• clarify their research interests and begin to situate them in broader discursive contexts;
• identify potential inter-disciplinary connections within their area of interests; and
• synthesize and analyze a diverse range of literature.