«Local+global», International Workshop and Colloquium
Jun 15, 2016
Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, this is a project about innovative symbioses in architectural education.
15 June 2016_ One of the most important structural components of architectural thinking, practice and education of the 20th century was the polarity between local and global. Modernism glorified the global as a vehicle of values such as innovation, rationality, objectivity, progress, originality, development, and aspiration for the ‘same for all’. In the second half of the century the local dignified became the ultimate medium for values like tradition, subjectivity, culture, identity, difference, particularity, evolution, continuity and respect for ‘the right to be different’. In both cases these poles were a powerful source of inspiration, creativity and innovation.
International Student Workshop: “local+global. Innovative symbioses”
Saturday 16 to Thurdsday 21 July 2016
Can architectural education contribute to the enhancement of the role of the symbiosis of the local and the global in contemporary architectural experimentations? Can architectural education contribute to the creation of a contemporary narrative on the ‘glocal’ which will glorify the simultaneity and copresence of the particular with the broadly accepted, of the specific with the universal, of the emergent with the imported? How can education promote the inspirational power of the local to be supported or amalgamated by the know-how of the global? Are our educational environments protective enough of the integrity of local architectural cultures when they are exposed to fresh ideas generated by international experiences?
These are the main questions of the colloquium “local+global: innovative symbioses in architectural education”. Its main objective is to bring together expertise in teaching and practicing architecture from different geographical areas in order to reveal ideas and attitudes related to creative symbioses between local and global which can assure innovative customizations of the global, open to the virtual globalization of the particular.
Participants:
-School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
-School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
-School of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
-Vallès School of Architecture, UPC BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
-School of Architecture, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
-Portimão School of Architecture, Institute Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portugal
-Covilhã School of Architecture, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
International Colloquium: “local+global. innovative symbioses in architectural education”
Thursday 21 to Friday 22 July 2016
The project is planned to be an experimental laboratory for strategies and policies for architectural education in the Mediterranean and European South aiming at:
-Raising awareness of the need for specific graduates’ profiles knowledge breadth, creative skills and competences appropriate to local demands, needs and particularities so that their graduates can be more exible and creative both in the local and international labour market.
-Supporting, elaborating and providing teaching approaches and specific pedagogies able to assure creativity and other learning outcomes emerging from the local needs, demands, attitudes and cultural as well as geographic specific cities.
-Elaborating incentives to support diversity of strategic choices for curricula development through which partner Schools of Architecture could be able to develop regional hubs of excellence and eventual specialization.
Procedia available at http://archi-med-es.net/
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