17th CONFERENCE ARQUITECTONICS MIND, LAND AND SOCIETY 2019

17th CONFERENCE ARQUITECTONICS MIND, LAND AND SOCIETY 2019

Freedom to design, that is, freedom of people to design, built and use buildings, cities and landscapes better for them.

KEY SPEAKERS:

• Mario Botta (Italy) - "Il progetto Come Ricerca " / (Research with Design)

• Silvia De Bianchi (Spain) - "Interactive generation of knowledge: a philosophical perspective on space"

• Ashraf M. Salama (UK) - “Transformative Design Pedagogy: From Priori and Posteriori Knowledge to Trans-disciplinary Production of Architecture”

• Andres Garces (Chile) - “Poetic and pedagogical process of "the Ronda" in Open City of Amereida”

• Francisco Mangado  (Spain) - Title in process

• Marcelo Zarate (Argentina) - “Towards an Urbanism based upon a deep design interpretation of the way some cultural schemes organize each place" 

• Miquel Fernandez (Spain) - “Nonnegotiable inertia. The role of urban planning in social normalization and the reproduction of capital”

Supported by:
UPC Research Group (GIRAS)
UNICEF; Children friendly cities
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Ministry of economic and education
Barcelona school of architecture (ETSAB)
COAC. Catalan Association of Architects
Mind, Land & Society Arquitectonics Network

Conference Organization:
Magda Saura; Professor, Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) and
Josep Muntañola; architect and city planner, senior professor, founder of GIRAS Research Group.
Conference Management: Rasoul Ameli, GIRAS, Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)

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Charrette Call for Contributions: From the Global South: Pedagogical Encounters in Architecture (Guest Editor Professor Ashraf Salama)

 

Charrette, the journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), first published in 2013, is now well established as a pioneering journal for academics, practitioners, and theorists engaged in design teaching practices and theoretical debates. For this issue (Volume 5, Issue 1), Charrette invites papers and essays that address positions, experiences, and experiments which are undertaken in the Global South by either local or international academics or both. 

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THEME 
The main body of literature on architectural education and design pedagogy is primarily produced in the English-speaking world and is interrogated, debated, and reproduced mainly in the larger context of Western Europe and North America. The architectural academic community in other parts of the world; the Global South, is deeply influenced by such a discourse as well as by various pedagogical trends typically introduced in Western academia to reflect the needs of budding professionals and the profession of architecture at large. In essence, these represent tendencies that are instigated and practiced within the contextual particularities of Western academia including the ambitions and constraints of academic institutions, the professional milieu, and the way in which architecture is practiced and produced. Classically, such an influence manifests itself in the fact that in any discussion about pedagogy in architecture in Global South’ academia the discourse which characterizes the Global North dictates and thus overshadows opportunities for developing another parallel, or in fact different but equally important, discourse which can be generated and developed to address other unique particularities that characterize the Global South. The thrust here is not to create a competing discourse but to complement what is already there. 
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See more by downloading the full call 
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Visit AAE Website: https://architecturaleducators.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/charrette-call-for-contributions-from-the-global-south-pedagogical-encounters-in-architecture-guest-editor-professor-ashraf-salama/ 
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Visit Journal Website: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/arched/char

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CAUMME 2012 International Symposium, Istanbul

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: GLOBAL IMPACTS AND LOCAL CHALLENGES 


Istanbul November 21-23 2012 

Symposium Chair, Professor Murat SOYGENIS 
Symposium Co-Chair, Professor Ashraf M. SALAMA 

Since the beginning of the new millennium, it was apparent that a new phase influencing the development of architecture and urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East had begun, when rulers, decision makers, and top government officials developed stronger interest in architecture and development. With such a sturdy interest many cities in this region are experiencing rapid growth coupled with fast track urbanization processes, and marked by large scale work, learning and residential environments, and mixed use developments. This is witnessed from Istanbul’s intensive urbanization process to Abu-Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Development to Bahrain Financial Harbor, and from Kuwait’s City of Silk to the future city of Qatar, Lusail. Notably, some cities have acquired a geo-strategic importance. Through the shift of global economic forces, they have developed to central hubs between old economies of Western Europe and the rising economies of Asia. In the context of international competition between cities new challenges are emerging. Organized jointly by Faculty of Architecture at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Qatar University in Doha, this symposium addresses a number of sub-themes unique to architecture and urbanism in this part of the world including:

1. Architectural Identity, City Branding, and Image Making.
2. Architecture and Urbanism of Cities within Cities.
3. Informal Urbanism-Behind the Scenes of the Global Images.
4. Multiculturalism and the Emerging City.
5. Place Making, Politics and Urban Power.
6. Scapes of Flows and the Contemporary City.
7. Social Impacts, Health and Sustainable Environments.
8. Urban Cohesion, Sustainability and Community Participation.
9. Urban Sprawl, Density, and Transport.
10. Urban-Spatial Regeneration and Heritage Conservation.

Conference Poster: http://www.mmr.yildiz.edu.tr/login/sys/admin/announcement/img/1324996093_CAUMME2012_poster.pdf
Conference Website: http://www.caummeyildiz.blogspot.com.au/

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OC-Open City

OC-Open City - From Landscape to exterior Design.

PROGRAM – FROM LANDSCAPE TO EXTERIOR DESIGN

The International Summer School program includes:

1- A workshop applied to specific issues typical of urban and environmental architectural design on different scales, aimed at the quality and sustainability of habitat transformation processes. This workshop will be conducted individually or in groups of no more than two participants, under constant supervision of tutors and lecturers;
The program includes three interconnected sections:

a- Landscape
b- Urban Space
c- Architectural Design

The three sections shall deal with the different design intervention scales and respectively focus on the preparation of:

a- Territorial planning master plans (including one or several specific interventions: strategic frameworks, complex nodes, infrastructural spaces), in a large and medium scale outlook;
b- Specific intervention projects (corresponding to individual cases: important public spaces, relational spaces, urban communication and representation areas), appropriately defined in their required spatial characteristics;
c- Design of architectural components typical of specific interventions, analyzed in depth in their constituting elements (basic, complementary and ancillary) at a level of detail and construction specificity, capable of implementing the qualities and values of the space.

For each of these three sections, each coordinated by a director, a “parallel internship” shall be opened, having specific operational and instrumental features but whose goals are closely related to the general issues proposed according to an integrated, interactive and interscalar architectural-urban-environmental concept.
The details of the various stages of the International Summer School include:

2- A series of conferences and round tables held by designers and scholars of international renown, with the presentation of projects and discussions on current design issues in parallel with the basic communications held by in-house lecturers;

3- A series of “parallel evenings” on the relationship between cinema and architecture;

4-Two critical revisions, One intermediate and the other, Final, with the participation of an international commission in the end of the work.

The work conducted in the design laboratory shall undergo progress reviews with the attendance of national and international key figures in architectural culture and a final results review conducted by an international committee, which will be the basis for the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano will issue an official certificate of attendance to each participant (equivalent, in the faculties of the Politecnico di Milano, to 8 credits).
The projects and study models prepared by participants shall be shown in exhibitions organized in appropriate venues and included in a specific publication.

For more : www.webdiap.diap.polimi.it

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Competition-World Architecture Community

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Smarter Better Homes - Competition

Design a single family residence that is the best house you can imagine. Areas that we thought of for optimization were cost of construction, cost of maintenance, and liveability of design, but feel free to provide your own focus.

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