BIG TEXTILES- BIG ELEMENTS
Just completing a project in Tactility Lab
funded by Creative Industries Innovation Fund that allows us to research larger textiles, find new partners and test
some larger scale prototypes. Follow the link to read more.
ENGAGED AND ENRAGED - ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION - FRIDAY 1 APRIL
ENGAGED AND ENRAGED
A non-institutional evening forum on architectural education
Friday 1 April at 19.00 at public works' studio.
1-5 Vyner Street, London E2
Speakers include: Helena Webster, Alex Warnock-Smith & Elena Pascolo, Colin Priest, Trenton Oldfield, Ruth Morrow, Torange Khonsari
Architectural education has been talked about a lot recently; mostly in terms of how it will survive within the landscape of increased university fees and how it might better serve the architecture profession of the future. This forum however is less concerned with internal insecurities and instead opens up a discussion about architectural education both to those not traditionally valorized within the current system and to others who have as much to say about cities, spaces and spatial practice as architects.
The event invites people engaged and enraged by architectural education to give voice to new potentials, locations and collaborations in architectural education.
Format of evening: Six or Seven, 5min presentations followed by discussion.
Views from the peripheral – professional, cultural, geographical are welcome.
The Friday Session is facilitated by Ruth Morrow with public works
Live Projects Colloquium, 2011
(in collaboration with James Brown)
Live Projects 2011 invites academics and teachers in architecture, built environment and design disciplines to a one day colloquium about the use of live projects in higher education.
A live project in architectural education may be defined as a teaching project that brings students of architecture into contact with one or more aspects of the reality of architectural practice: a real client, a real timeline and a real outcome that is of value to the client. Established as an adaptation of the studio-based model of architectural education, their origins lie in nineteen-fifties’ experiments in the university-based architectural education. Contemporary UK live projects are increasingly cited as developing broader skill-sets in their students than traditional studio based projects, often drawing reference from design/build or service learning projects in North America. Yet despite their established use in architectural education, live projects remain under theorised, with primarily descriptive rather than analytical research.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words accompanied by a summary CV should be submitted no later than 21 January 2011 to: liveprojects2011@qub.ac.uk
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