An International EAAE Conference
Hosted by IKU/Istanbul
March 21-23 2012
Educating the Future: Architectural Education in International Perspective
Conference:
This is an international academic meeting, sharing experiences and re-thinking on architecture in the context of identity, legitimacy and multidisciplinarity considering today’s changing agenda and values. Besides sharing the individual innovative thoughts on architectural education, schools all over Europe and Turkey will have the chance to experience and discuss the differences, introduce themselves and make future engagements within an atmosphere of face to face contact at a big city full of cultural diversity. Discussions will be held on curricula: different profiles/same diplomas; research and funding: opportunities and recent developments; similarities and differences: architecture and the disciplines of art, design and construction; and practice: relationship to the profession.
Curricula: different profiles/same diplomas
Architects are licensed to build… They are graduated from various schools all over the world. The basic knowledge and skills belonging to architecture for thinking, designing and constructing is taught. Are all the just graduated architects having the sufficient quality? What are the differences in between the various architectural programs and their reflections? Do we need accreditation? What is the mission of an architect? What are the differences in between the values belonging to various schools/countries?
Research and funding: opportunities and recent developments
Architecture is a discipline. Research produced knowledge, insight and understanding. Knowledge is produced through thinking and making. What knowledge and research is key to the field? How can designing play a role in the knowledge processes? Who are the investors for architectural research? Is there a connection in between research and making? Does changing the statue/affiliation increase the quality/success in architectural research? How can research help to develop the new technologies, methods and tools for design?
Similarities and differences: architecture and the disciplines of art, design and construction
Architecture shares the same territories with some of the other disciplines… The limits of research and practice in architecture collide with interior architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, industrial design and art. How do we distinguish the place, the size and the subject of the design? What is the product of architecture?
Practice: relationship to the profession
Architecture is a field of practice… What are the expectations of the professionals from the school? Who is the subject of the detail and maintenance issues? Is there a mission like social and physical sustainability for an architect? What are the stimulators for the spatial organization and elements of space? What are the international working conditions.
Workshop:
Workshop is a platform for experiencing a team work with the participants from various schools on reading the dynamics of city and making an intervention to the city life by constructing an interaction point. Schools are invited to take part in the workshop by their 4 representatives: one teacher and three students. They will join mixed teams of schools assisted by the coordinators who are not the leaders of the teams. Teams might choose leaders or set their own rules. The first rule comes from us: members of the teams will be considered as creators. In other words, “teacher” and “student” statues are not valid during the workshop process. Subject and place of the workshop will be announced on the workshop date.
Program of the workshop process is as follows:
11.10.2012-01.10.2013 Workshop registration
03.21.2013 Workshop field trip
03.22.2013 preparation for the workshop presentations and the exhibition
03.23.2013 workshop presentation and the debate/forum
Note that:
Registration will be confirmed after the attendees send their flight tickets by e-mail
There is no fee for the team members.
Conference organisation committee will help for the hostel/hotel bookings
Accomodation and flights will be paid by the team members
Program:
03.21-23.2013: Workshop
03.22-23.2013: Opening of the conference
4 sequential Paper presentation sessions
Poster presentation
Speakers corner (a desk with a microphone open to everybody who wants to share/declare her/his thoughts depending on a pre-announced list of topics and speaker names)
Exhibition 1: Starting the architectural education (First 3 months works of the students from various universities)
Exhibition 2: Final products for the workshop
EAAE desk: Submissions for membership and introducing newsletter, 1:1
Schools desk: A desk for the schools that prefer to share brochures and make live school presentations
Tea, Lunch and dinner breaks
Think tank (Coffee tables with specific discussion topics for 5 people with big papers and pens to note)
Workshop presentations
Forum: Manifestos for the future of architectural education (A 2 hour discussion session open to everybody)
Calendar:
Call: September 3, 2012
Abstract submission: October 15, 2012 > extended to December 1, 2012
Workshop registration: December 10, 2012
Paper submission: january 21, 2013
Fee:
Conference Registration:
Professionals: 200 Euro (including two lunches and one dinner)
Students: 150 Euro
Workshop Registration: None
Conference Documentation:
A book with ISBN code and a cd including all activities will be printed after the conference.
All presentations and events will be shared through the Conference web site. It will be active after the conference to keep the contact among the attendants.
KEYNOTES
Curricula: Different profiles/same diplomas
Chair: Murray Fraser
Richard M. Sommer
Research and Funding: Opportunities and Recent developments
Chair: johan Verbeke
Keynote: Michiel Riedijk
Similarities and Differences: Architecture and the disciplines of art, design and construction
Chair: Chris Younes
Keynote: Hakan Gursu and Keersten Geers
Practice: Relationship to the profession
Chair: Guven Arif Sargin
Keynote: Mehmet Kutukcuoglu
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Adalberto Del Bo
Arzu Erdem
Balint Bachmann
Chris Younes
Constantin Spiridonidis
Esra Fidanoglu
Gulsum Baydar
Guven Arif Sargin
Hakan Gursu
johan Verbeke
Keersten Geers
Mehmet Kucukdogu
Mehmet Kutukcuoglu
Michiel Riedijk
Murat Ulug
Murray Fraser
Neslihan Dostoglu
Richard M. Sommer
Selahattin Onur
Susanne Komossa
Ugur Tanyeli
Urs Hirschberg
Zeno Bogdanescu
Conference Organisation Committee:
Neslihan Dostoglu (Chair)
Esra Fidanoglu (Vice Chair)
Asiye Akgun
Asli Yalcin
Ceren Göğüş
Demet Dincer
Ege Uluca Tumer
Erdem Ungur
Evren Burak Enginoz
Evrim Tore
Gaye Gunaydin
Gonca Arik
Ilke Tekin
Mehmet Emre Arslan
Nur Genc
Oya Keskin
Pelin Cetken
Serhat Kut
Tugce Eren
