Course syllabus
Course description:
ACE160 & ACE136, Dare to Build
ACE160 Dare to build, civil engineers lp4 VT23 (7.5 hp)
Course is offered by the department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Objective
True (social, economic and environmental) sustainable development is inherently cross-disciplinary and urgent. Thus, there is a need for integrated and transformative solutions fostering collaborations and shared learning between disciplines such as architecture and civil engineering. The aim of this course is to provide students with a multi-disciplinary practice-based learning environment, where students are involved in the CDIO methodology (conceive, design, implement, operate) to realize a project into a full-scale built result. This provides students relevant skills to enter their working life, such as effective communication across disciplinary borders, putting one’s knowledge and abilities into a real context, and having the capacity to handle complex problems both in a technical design process as well as in a building process. In addition, the course aims at developing the necessary skills to engage with end users and local stakeholders to create a built environment that fosters social inclusion and addresses the most important local needs as well as the larger issues we face today. It is important to lift these issues out of theory and into practiced based examples, showing that real change can be simultaneously made and learned.
Learning outcomes
Project description and brief
This course has a major focus on the project task, developed in collaboration with external stakeholders and as a second stage of a student project developed in the course ARK324 Design and Planning for Social Inclusion in the Autumn. The choice of project for the Dare to build course was done after an assessment based on the course’s learning outcomes, the current design development, the anchor with stakeholders, the budget-feasibility, the time-feasibility, the ease of permitting, the fun factor, and the relevance in social impact.
Teaching Team
Marco Adelfio , adelfio@chalmers.se (examiner ACE136)
Robert Jockwer, robert.jockwer@chalmers.se (examiner ACE160), +46701469104
Shea Hagy, shea.hagy@chalmers.se (course coordinator)
Tabita Nilsson, tabita@chalmers.se (course coordinator)
Márton Ratkai, ratkai@chalmers.se (course assistant)
Peter Lindblom, peter.lindblom@chalmers.se
Yutaka Goto, yutaka@chalmers.se
Emílio da Cruz Brandão, brandao@chalmers.se
Bruno Gonçalves, brunool@chalmers.se
Sam Carvalho, samueldiascarvalho@gmail.com
| WEEK | TEACHER LEAD |
| 12 | Robert/Marco (shea online) |
| 13 | Tabita (shea online) |
| 14 | Marco (shea online) |
| 15 | Robert (shea online) |
| 16 | Tabita (shea online) |
| 17 | Shea |
| 18 | Shea |
| 19 | Shea |
| 20 | Shea |
| 21 | Shea |
| 22 | Robert/Marco |
Schedule information
The schedule in general is in blocks B and C with slight variations depending on the day and task. See CANVAS calendar for more details. In case you have overlap with other course, please contact the teachers and examiners!
**NOTE -ACE136 and ACE160 students will have different schedules with periods of overlap.
Start Dates: ACE160 March 20th
Course’s location
During the first weeks (week 6 thru 16) most of the course moments will take place at Chalmers in the ateljen/atelier, off the ACE building lightyard (unless otherwise noted). There are some days each week where students will need to leave the atejlen early and/or use another room.
The following weeks ( weeks 17-22) of the course will be on-site in Frihamnen.
*Note that this is a live-project course and requires flexibility; there will be the need to meet in different groups at different places (Chalmers, project site, Hammarkullen facilities, etc.) based on the planning and preparations and needs of the project.
Literature
Brause, C., 2016. The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration. Routledge.
Crawley, E., Malmqvist, J., Östlund, S. and Brodeur, D., 2007. Rethinking Engineering Education-The CDIO Approach.
Hailey, C., 2016. Design/build with Jersey Devil: A Handbook for Education and Practice. Chronicle Books.
Kara, H., Georgoulias, A. and Silvetti, J. eds., 2012. Interdisciplinary Design: New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering. Actar Publishers.
Olsen, C. and Mac Namara, S., 2014. Collaborations in architecture and engineering. Routledge.
Pressman, A., 2014. Designing Relationships: the art of collaboration in architecture. Routledge.
Lambert, L. 2020. Food as Evidence of Colonialism and the capitalocene with Cooking Sections. The Funambulist #31
Kattan, K. 2020. Cooking Palestinian food: on indigenous herbs, craft and community by chef Fadi Kattan. The Funambulist #31
Tirado von der Pahlen, C. 2019. Climate change, the food commons and human health. Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons.
De Schutter, O. et al. 2019. Food as commons: Towards a new relationship between the public the civic and the private. Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons.
Changes from last year
The Course expanded to 7.5 credits for ACE160 and the course was moved into LP 4. Many changes and additions were made including but not limited to: skills-warmups, workshops, coordination of ACE136+160 schedules, extended implementation phase, etc.
Form of examination
Grading: UG – Pass, Fail
To pass the course the following is required:
- Attendance and active participation at lectures/seminars
- Active participation in group work, presentations and cross critics
- Delivery of course assignments of sufficient quality (fulfilling the requirements regarding content and presentation of the assignments)
- Attendance and active participation in construction of the project. To ensure the steady progress and completion of the project, it is crucial that the building team is 100% present on site.
The course compulsory assignments are structured and examined as seen in the ASSIGNMENTS page on canvas.
* For the course syllabus, you can visit the following pages: ACE160 - engineers