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ECLAS Doctoral Colloquium 2023 – Orbis Pictus

The doctoral colloquium Orbis Pictus will be a space for miscellaneous pictures of research topics and opinions of our research students.

Orbis pictus – Visible World in Pictures [1] (acc. J. A. Comenius: Orbis sensualium pictus, 1658) was the first interactive educational encyclopaedia in the world. The book represented the medieval world known at the time by means of pictures with an explanatory commentary.

The ECLAS Doctoral Colloquium 2023 should become a similarly illustrative space for sharing contemporary research topics. Let’s co-create a representative overview of your research topics and compare research methodologies. Which path have you choosed at your methodology crossroad? What have others, dealing with the same/similar topic, chosen?

All our PhD students are also warmly invited to actively participate in the main conference programme! You can participate in all five conference sessions, participate in discussions and discover new contexts and knowledge foryou research activities.

As a side event, the doctoral colloquium will include the Creative Workshop ‘Schola Ludus’. [2]

Colloquium Target Groups

Our colloquium is addressed to both current/prospective doctoral students and senior researchers who are supervising thesis processes. It will also be of interest for prospective supervisors who wish to learn from peers about tutoring methods in this field. The overall objective is to share and discuss methodological aspects within the European landscape architecture research community. The meeting is open to all research themes and methodological approaches. Thematic groups will be formed according to the responses received to this call.

How to get involved as a thesis supervisor or senior researcher?

Our colloquium is a combination of individual mentoring, group discourse and thematic inputs on research methods around the overall frame of our ‘orbis pictus’ metaphor. Thematic contributions in the form of a 15-20 minutes presentation can be offered on the following topics:

How do I get involved as a doctoral student?

The colloquium will include a poster session for doctoral students. Poster authors will present their research topics in a visually attractive way using images, photographs, graphics, etc., with minimal explanatory commentary, and to explain their research method. In theme-specific working groups the presented outputs will be shared, compared and discussed. We plan to include the posters in the conference proceedings along with a brief summary of the conclusions of the working groups.

Your visual representation should support a discussion during the colloquium along the following guiding questions:

Title of your research project

What is your research question? Which research strategy & approach have you selected to answer this question?

Please explain why and on the basis of which methodological consideration you have chosen this research strategy. This section is, of course, also about specific sub-questions. Often there are (too) many sub-questions (!).

What is your research method and why have you chosen it?

What is, or will be, your empirical evidence and how will you collect and analyse my data/evidence?

The poster should have an A0 format. Shortly, we will also provide a template for you.

Submission deadline: 31st of July 2023 to this e-mail: colloquium(at)eclas.org

Prospective doctoral students

If you are a future doctoral student and still in the process of developing a thematic framework you are also invited to attend the discussions. In that case you may not submit an outline but please send an e-mail to the organiser to inform them of your intention to attend.

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