09.050.602 M1-MA Project Seminar: Tack a Map

Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anton Escher; Dr. Marie Karner

Veranstaltungsart: hybrid: Projektseminar

Anzeige im Stundenplan: M1-MA PS

Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 40

Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.

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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Seminar Schedule:

• Preliminary Meeting (Formation of teams): 15.04.21, 6pm-7:30pm (digital, MS Teams)
  
• Individual consultation hours: Please contact us via E-Mail for an appointment, no later than 18.06.21. Each team needs the confirmation of the supervisors before starting to implement its ideas.
  
• Seminar: Saturday 10.07.21, 9am-6pm (The event will take place preferably analogously.)
  

Inhalt:
Content:
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players” (William Shakespeare). Building on this, the basic idea of the master’s seminar “Tack a Map” is to convince listeners by an idea using thematic maps. This seminar will teach you to be creative, develop a convincing play and to perform in front of a fictive audience in a certain role. Through the preparation and the performance, you will acquire skills and practical knowledge for your university and professional career. The seminar “Tack a Map” is supervised by Prof. Dr. Anton Escher and organizationally accompanied by Marie Karner.

In collaboration with other students, you will work out a performance in which each team member plays a certain role. As soon as groups of approximately five students are set, you will start with the following considerations:

• When, where and how should our performance take place? (Lifeworld, future, past, fictitious etc.)
  
• What roles do we want to play?
  
• Which idea do we want to realize?
  
• Who do we want to convince of the idea? Who is the auditorium or audience? What roles do the listeners play?
  
• Where should the play take place?
  
• Which four maps do we want to use?
  

• Define yourself or introduce yourself to the audience as a team and afterwards individually to clarify the function of each team member.
  
• Define the setting or the location where the event takes place.
  
• Define the audience (by name if necessary).
  
• Explain the (realistic, fictional or futuristic) goal of the event or your presentation: What is the issue/theme/target you want to convince the audience of?
  

•  You start your lecture or presentation with the demonstration of one map in order to locate the problem or the problematized facts in the lifeworld.
  
• You will stage the problem/issue using a wide variety of tools. All possible visualization strategies are welcome (oral remarks, images, sounds, films, animations, etc.). A creative presentation is desired!
  
• Present your idea to solve the problem. Do not forget to include four convincing maps in your presentation.
  

• Challenge the audience to ask critical questions.
  
• Try to convince the audience of your ideas with suitable strategies.
  
• Do not only use rational arguments. Discuss with the audience. Answer the questions of the audience.
  

• Let the audience vote about implementing your idea/goal and announce the result of the vote. (The result of the vote has no influence on the evaluation of your presentation, performance and designed thematic maps).
  
• Thank the auditorium and close the event.
  

Empfohlene Literatur:
Recommended literature:
Balme, Christopher B. (2008): The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lambert, N. & C. Zanin (2020): Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography. Principles, Methods, and Applications. Abington: Routledge.

Slocum, T. A., R. B. Mc Master, F. C Kessler & H. H. Howard (2008³): Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization. Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science. Essex: Pearson Education Limited.