Architectural Episodes 02: New Dialogues in Architectural Education and Practice Symposium, March 2022

September 08, 2021

Architectural Episodes 02: New Dialogues in Architectural Education and Practice Symposium, March 2022

"Architectural Episodes 02: New Dialogues in Architectural Education and Practice" Symposium organized by İstanbul Kültür University Faculty of Architecture. The symposium will be hybrid.

The website is https://mim.iku.edu.tr/en/ae2

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Oya Atalay Franck (Switzerland), and Prof. Dr. Ashraf M. Salama (United Kingdom)

Following the first Architectural Episodes Symposium, hosted by Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Architecture/Department of Architecture, which was held on 15-16 November 2018; the second symposium in the series will be held as a hybrid symposium on 24-25 March 2022 with the theme of “ARCHITECTURAL EPISODES 02: NEW DIALOGUES IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE”. The symposium is supported by various institutions and organizations, including the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education). The international symposium focuses on the concept of “Dialogues in Architecture”, which defines new collaborations in architectural education and practice.After the breaking point created by the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation of distance has brought up different types of collaborative platforms. New approaches in architectural education and practice have resulted in diverse concepts while increasing the need for dialogue between interdisciplinary actors. Dialogues among architects, engineers, psychologists, educators, researchers, etc. not only enable the sharing of threats, opportunities and responsibilities in education and professional practice, but also identifies influential links in a holistic way of design thinking. Accordingly, new methods and related collaborative approaches in education, collaborative design studies, co-housing and new paradigms in the urban scale, co-reflections on disasters, and co-links between architecture and industry are among the topics to be discussed in the symposium.

In this symposium, participants from various professions related with the field of architecture (architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, industrial design) and representatives of different disciplines (education, health, psychology, law, economy, engineering, etc.) from different parts of the world are expected to share their experiences so that a comparison can be made regarding the processes and results of different approaches.

The dialogues include:

Co-Education, Co-Design, Co-Housing, Co-Reflections, and Co-Links with Industry.

A workshop titled “Muğla Transcripts in/on Disasters: Forest Fires 2021” (Afetler İçinde/Üzerine Muğla Suretleri: Orman Yangınları 2021) will be held in collaboration with Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and Istanbul Kültür University Department of Architecture students, the results of which will be presented and discussed at the symposium.

Submit Proposal Presentation here. https://mim.iku.edu.tr/en/ae2

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).