Art4 B Assessment Criteria

Architectural research meets the general criteria of originality, significance, rigor and transparency.
The following characteristics could guide architectural research to a high level of quality and open up new horizons:
1. The research is meaningful and relevant for practice, for the discipline, and for society; it explores their limits and expands them;
2. The research contributes to design practice, the exploration of spatial understanding and/or the creative design process;
3. The research contributes to knowledge by intellectual work that is characteristic of architecture and design practice;
4. The research endeavors to make the processes and the foundations as clear and explicit as possible;
5. The research method, context, process and results are communicated externally and are submitted to regular peer review; they refer to the work of peers;
6. The research explores emotional, intuitive and/or artistic aspects of the domain, it engages architectural competences and experience in practice;
7. The research creates and exploits trans-disciplinary connections;

Comments

Aulikki Herneoja - Jan 2011

eaae JDW 05 Apr 2011 09:19

Assessment criteria for research manuscript

• Has the researcher stated clearly the epistemological and ontological position/approach of her/his research?
• Research manuscript should be evaluated from the same position that researcher has stated.
• Does the re searcher know relevant literature for the subject matter?
• Is the research conceptually and methodologically efficient?
• Are the objectives, hypotheses and methods clearly presented and logical?
• Is the methodological choice reasonable?
• Are the research methods and materials appropriate for the project?
• Is the research input suitable for research questions and is the input employed well?
• Does the research manuscript have structural or linguistic problems or problems in its content?
• Is the length of the research manuscript appropriate?
• Are the projects or other artistic material presented in the research well chosen and/or filling the high quality standards?
• Are images and tables informative, and is the number of them appropriate?
• What is the relevance/significance of processing the set research questions?

Scientific and/or artistic quality and innovativeness of the research:

• Is the research scientifically and/or artistically significant?
• What is the importance of the results for the research sector?
• What is the importance of the results for the field of practice?
• Is the research scientifically and/or artistically innovative?
• Is the research scientifically and/or artistically ambitious?
• Does the research generate new knowledge, new methods, new technology or new design practices?

suggestions

pieter versteegh 30 May 2011 14:27

Architectural research involves the use of assessment criteria that are specific to their nature, forms, processes and outputs / outcomes. These need to be structured (which, in itself, constitutes another subject of research).
Among the possibilities we may find:
- the degree of exploration
- the degree of innovation and reorientation of subjects
- the degree of connection with teaching
- the degree of connection with practice
the degree of connection with economical partners
- events (exhibitions, seminars, workshops, lectures…)
- publications in the forms used within the profession (publications of teaching and research institutions, architectural magazines and press, or by publications addressing themselves to one of the target audiences)
- collaboration with international, high-level partners (Universities)