Experimental Design

Faculty

Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture

Version

Version 1 of 21.08.2025.

Module identifier

44M0489

Module level

Bachelor

Language of instruction

German

ECTS credit points and grading

5.0

Module frequency

only winter term

Duration

1 semester

 

 

Brief description

Detached from the usual spatial-analytical and function-bound design methodology, a design process is to be developed for a defined open-space task using an experimental approach. The focus here is on an individual approach that arrives at a form through experimentation in an open-ended process. This can involve experimenting freely with unusual, unfamiliar or artistic, analogue or digital means and a targeted restriction of content or media can guide the process.

Overall workload

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning
Workload hoursType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
20Learning in groups / Coaching of groups-
10Seminar-
Lecturer independent learning
Workload hoursType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
120Creation of examinations-
Graded examination
  • Field work / Experimental work or
  • Homework / Assignment
Knowledge Understanding

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Literature

Buchert, Margitta (2016): Praktiken reflexiven Entwerfens. Berlin: Jovis.
Gänshirt, Christian (2020): Werkzeuge für Ideen: Einführung ins architektonische Entwerfen. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag.
Métis International Garden Festival (Hg.)/Emily Waugh (2016): Experimenting Landscapes - Testing the Limits of the Garden. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Wittmann, Barbara (2018): Werkzeuge des Entwerfens. Zürich, Berlin: diaphanes.

Weitere Literaturhinweise werden für das jeweilige Thema zu Beginn des Moduls bekanntgegeben.

Applicability in study programs

  • Landscape Architecture
    • Landscape Architecture M.Eng. (01.09.2025)

    Person responsible for the module
    • Zimmermann, Astrid
    Teachers
    • Zimmermann, Astrid
    • Theidel, Daniel