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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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20.11.09

Understanding Design: Robin Boyd Foundation

Understanding
Design:
Robin Boyd
Foundation


Invitation to public open day: Sunday 6 December 2009

The Robin Boyd Foundation invites you to visit Griffin’s Melbourne – a public open day of buildings designed by the architectural partnership of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin.
Robin Boyd praised Walter Burley Griffin as ‘an irritant to the establishment…and an inspiration to young designers’. In Boyd’s opinion, ‘Griffin accelerated the development of Melbourne’s architecture beyond the normal Australian rate of progress in the first half of the (twentieth) century’.

The Griffins are acknowledged as Australia’s first international architects. The brilliant and visionary designers of the grand public Centre for design awareness Centre for scholarship and research Museum house...

Find more: www.robinboyd.org.au

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23.6.09

ICAHD Study Tour: Palestine and Israel

An invitation: APJP and ICAHD:
In lieu of an architects’ study tour which may only take place mid next year, this tour will still give you an insight into the whole occupation and position of Palestinians even within Israel, which may be of interest to APJP members. ICAHD is involved in this tour which will give the architectural and development perspective.
Abe (Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine-APJP)
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Autumn Study Tour to Palestine, Jerusalem and Israel - November 2009
In order to strengthen the voice of the international community, we encourage people to visit the Occupied Territories and Israel to be an eye-witness to the situation on the ground. No amount of reading, attending lectures or watching films can convey an accurate understanding of the “facts on the ground”, which are crucial to any program of advocacy. These study tours bring visitors to meet with key people from both sides of the divide examining several aspects of life today in Israel, Jerusalem and Palestine. The tours provide a unique opportunity to gain first-hand, in-depth knowledge of some of the latest analysis.

A twelve-day study tour will take place in November
Be based in Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Nazareth
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Find more:
http://www.icahd.org/icahdukdev/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&site=UK&article=413

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