BA Architecture Field Trip to Berlin

Independence

Trip price

Trip duration

All BA Architecture students are eligible to apply for this opportunity. There is a maximum of 30 places available, with a minimum of 15 participants required for this opportunity to take place. Students are recommended to check the eligibility criteria before applying.

Trip description

The purpose of the visit is to expose the first, second- and third-year BA Architecture students to the architecture, history and design culture of Berlin; a city full of history and culture with three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Activities will include visiting a variety of prominent historic, modern and adaptive reuse building typologies and spaces; ranging from museums, galleries to housing and places of worship. These include the Reichstag, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Jewish Museum, Neus Museum, James-Simon-Galerie and other buildings around the city. We also hope to visit one or two architectural practices.

The estimated total cost for travel and accommodation for this trip to Berlin is £450. Students will be expected to pay £250, as the £200 DMU Global bursary will be deducted from the total.

Learning objectives

This opportunity will allow participants to physically experience buildings that are discussed in lectures (to relate concepts learned in the design studio to a real building); engage with practice and professionals; and give exposure to a new context of Design and Architecture.

Students will undertake research in small groups about the buildings that they will be visiting. Trip leads will also help prepare students with questions to ask the practices that they will be visiting. During the trip, there may be a mini photography/sketch competition. Upon return this could form a mini-exhibition in the architecture studio.

The trip will allow students to meet other students from other years of the BA Architecture programme and will broaden knowledge and understanding of different cultures. It will be exploratory, allowing participants to think critically about the places, but equally fun and social.

Skill development

This opportunity has been designed to help develop the following DMU Graduate Attributes:

Agility

Confidence

Critical Thinking

Organisational

Cultural activities

Students will have free time allocated to explore the city in their own small groups including visiting places such as Tempelhof Airport Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt, East Side Gallery and the various markets and public squares the city has to offer.