Program Overview

Situated Practice: Research Methods (BARC0075)

Key Information

• Faculty: UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
• Teaching department: Bartlett School of Architecture
• Credit value: 15
• Restrictions: N/A

Alternative Credit Options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

BARC0075 is a module that uses a weekly series of lectures and seminars to introduce students to the main types of research methods adopted in situated practice. It provides an underlying conceptual framework concerning practice-led research and makes reference to examples of significant site-specific theories, criticism, and practice. The perspective provided looks both at the situation in London and the UK in detail, as well as exemplars from around the world.

Students will be introduced to the range of approaches taken to situated practice by practitioners from across the spatial disciplines, emphasizing transdisciplinary modes of practice and engagement. The module aims to:

• Foreground the importance of critically situating one's practice in relation to existing theoretical ideas and practice.
• Explore how working in specific sites opens up possibilities for situated practice, from responses to the formal and material conditions of location, to the social, cultural, political, and historical pasts, presents, and futures of a site, and to a focus on working with collaborators, including inhabitants and their roles as spectators, participants, and/or possible co-producers and collaborators.
• Introduce students to the kinds of approaches and questions they will need to tackle when it comes to developing their own individual approach to situated practice.

Module Deliveries for 2026/27 Academic Year

• Intended teaching term: Term 1
• Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and Assessment

• Mode of study: In person
• Methods of assessment: 100% Coursework
• Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other Information

• Number of students on module in previous year: 22
• Module leader: Ms Amica Dall

Last Updated

This module description was last updated on 10th March 2026.