The course offers the opportunity to work outside the university and actively contribute to transformations, particularly in digital, social, economic, cultural, media, and political areas. Field projects can be conducted at NGOs, public institutions, initiatives, science collaborations, research organizations, think tanks, activist groups, villages or municipalities, corporations, companies, start-ups etc. Alternatively, students may take the opportunity to develop projects that relate to specific transformation processes and implement them in collaboration with the partners mentioned above.

Field projects may address problems of various scales (local, regional, national, global, planetary) and facilitate creative boundary transgressions, engagement with contradictions and limitations, and the testing of ideas in transdisciplinary fields. Contributing to just and diverse more-than-human environments is a core aspiration of this course.

QUALITY CRITERIA 

1. Originality of the proposed project: The originality of the project lies in creatively responding to the circumstances and identifying transformation processes of the chosen partner in thoughtful and critical ways.

2. Organization and implementation: Partners are chosen and addressed independently and adequately. The implementation of the field project is set up and conducted in a well-organized manner. Throughout the entire process, problems are addressed and solved constructively.

3. Depth of engagement: Anticipatory conceptualization and planning are handled with care and accurately respond to the context. This demonstrates the depth of engagement in the transformative process. The work plan is necessarily detailed but also allows for modification. The implementation of the field project shows a wide range of details that are adequately documented. The depth of engagement is mirrored in the final PRESENTATION and in the final PROJECT REPORT.

Please see the handbook of the course is in the folder "BA-Student-Info TS". 

During the field projects, students schedule one individual meeting with the course teacher.