competitions-events: education

10.2.17

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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24.11.14

Escuela de Verano 2015: Gestión del Patrimonio Cultural Urbano en el Santiago del Siglo XXI (Chile)

Este curso busca constituirse en un espacio de reflexión, discusión y elaboración de propuestas en torno al patrimonio cultural urbano de Santiago. Se analizarán las políticas e instrumentos existentes, con el fin de generar propuestas estratégicas que favorezcan la gestión y protección del patrimonio, considerando su potencial para el desarrollo local y el contexto de transformaciones de escala metropolitana.

"Colectivo Rescata es una instancia de trabajo interdisciplinario en pro de la conservación y difusión del patrimonio cultural de Chile. Comprendemos el patrimonio, desde lo intangible, como un instrumento de desarrollo social y, desde lo tangible, como una forma de mejorar la calidad ambiental de los paisajes, tanto urbanos como rurales. En estos momentos colaboramos en la generación de instancias de desarrollo sostenible para el patrimonio urbano del sector sur poniente de la comuna de Santiago y San Bernardo."

Leer más: aquí

27.3.10

Startup Weekend

What happens during a Startup Weekend?

People from different backgrounds come together to present ideas, listen to new thoughts and get to know each other.

Interdisciplinary teams are formed to push the ideas forward in a creative environment. As a basis for a company, a business concept will be developed.

The process will be accompanied by coaches, business angels, former start-up entrepreneurs and many more motivated participants.

The groups will receive feedback on their final presentation by a panel of experts. In addition, more support like startup-consulting and appointments with venture capital companies are offered to promising groups.

Networking time! Talk with investors, sponsors and other participants.

For more: www.startvienna.at

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

22.2.10

ACSA’s Teacher’s Seminar this June 3 to 6 in Detroit

Theme

"Public-Interest Design is centered on the conviction that design can impact social change, evidenced by contributions from the growing fields of humanitarian, community, pro bono, and universal design. As these fields continue to gain relevance as legitimate and sought-after forms of practice, they cast new light on the role of designers in the world."

"ACSA’s Teacher’s Seminar this June 3 to 6 in Detroit. The conference will bring together some of the pioneers of “public interest design” to discuss this approach to practice and what it might mean for design education in the future.
See the ACSA’s website for more information."

2.9.09

Design Eduction - 2010 Call for Papers

The international Journal of Architecture Research (Archnet -IJAR) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Design Education 2010: Explorations and Prospects for Better Built Environment.

For more information download : http://docs.google.com
or e-mail at: ijar@mit.edu

competitions-events

10.2.17

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

24.11.14

Escuela de Verano 2015: Gestión del Patrimonio Cultural Urbano en el Santiago del Siglo XXI (Chile)