This module combines concepts from two fields highly relevant to environment and natural resource issues: innovation studies, and business sustainability. The module includes both a policy focus (exploring how governments can aim to stimulate ‘eco-innovation’, including cleaner technologies) and a focus on business sustainability management, including the essentials of clean innovation management from a business perspective.

 

This module presents a range of topics relevant to the current state of knowledge of the management of projects, adapted for careers in...

Managing Infrastructure Projects and Programmes (BCPM0023)

This module presents a range of topics relevant to the current state of knowledge of the management of projects, adapted for careers in infrastructure.

Aims:

Drawing upon new research, this module aims to clarify how complex infrastructure projects can be successfully managed, organised and delivered. There is no “one-size-fits-all” solution. You are introduced to concepts and frameworks to help you analyse projects and select the right approach to manage technological uncertainty, market novelty, complex systems, time constraints and other factors.

Learning Objectives:

You will be able to assess the unique challenges associated with each infrastructure project and create the right approach to successfully manage it. You can use the frameworks and tools presented in the module to decide how to design a project organisation and temporary process, how to deal with complexity, risk and uncertainty.
	You will also be able to assess the unique challenges associated with managing megaprojects and how to improve performance by learning from one megaproject to the next.

Critical Methodologies of Architectural History reviews the range of methods and approaches open to the architectural historian, critic and theorist, as well...

Critical Methodologies of Architectural History (BARC0043)

Critical Methodologies of Architectural History reviews the range of methods and approaches open to the architectural historian, critic and theorist, as well as the traditions from which each derives, and the controversies around them. Through a weekly lecture and seminar, students read and discuss works by a variety of architectural historians (e.g., Banham, Burns, Colomina, Deamer, Evans, Giedion and Tafuri) and texts by authors including, Ahmed, Butler, Chakrabarty, Freud, Foucault, Douglas, Hartman, Latour, Mbembe and Spivak on theory of history, aesthetics, materialism, subjectivity and technology. Seminars, readings and discussions also consider issues such as biopolitics, semiology, psychoanalysis and postcolonialsm in relation to architectural history.