Class Thesis project

The Thesis Project Curricular Unit aims at the formulation, by each student, of a Thesis Project, within the scope of a doctoral research in Architecture.

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a) Establishing a relationship between the research and the Arq.ID research center; b) Introducing the bases for a framework relating to the main issues and themes existing in the contemporary panorama of research in architecture in an international context; c) Introducing the formal and structural bases for the preparation of the Thesis Proposal; d) Introducing the bases for the design of an investigation for each student, which includes (i) thematic circumscription, (ii) objectives development, (iii) interpretation of disciplinary and methodological particularities, (iv) critical evaluation of the State of the Art, (v) definition and argumentation of a fundamental hypothesis and (vi) construction of an essential reference bibliography. e) Introducing the supervision team, as well as the conditions for carrying out the investigative work for each of the students.

The set of classes will be organized into three types of pedagogical approaches:   Theoretical classes, organized by modules, on the themes in question, based on the presentation of cases and the support of invited experts and use of new teaching methods based on new digital information technologies; Individual follow-up of individual thesis projects, including collaborative moments of shared group discussion in sessions that bring together the Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa and Porto, thus expanding the critical capacity and stimulating continuous learning through the confrontation with different proposals and peer responses; Periodic evaluation.

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