Politics, Building and City

Abstract

This is a report from an experience in political training which was conducted as a two-credit course entitled Workshop and Laboratory of Political Science for a number of Faculty of Economics and Political Science’s students at Shahid Beheshti University. The framework of the workshop was a result of experience with applied training of political knowledge and analysis taught to hundreds of experts and managers of the executive and political bodies within the past two decades. In this paper, the author describes two of the examinations that were conducted and the objectives and conclusions thereof. The other parts of the paper include collective visit, along with the students, of the faculty and observing its building from inside and outside as a simple and static analogy of structure and order as well as dispatching the individual students to Tehran’s different streets and neighborhoods in order to observe and record human and social relationships for understanding dynamic order.

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