Educating the Future: Architectural Education in International Perspective

Konferans, 21-23 Mart 2013 tarihinde İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi'nde gerçekleşiyor.

This is an activity created as an EAAE Project of “Improving Turkish School Relationships with EAAE and Member Schools”

PAPER PRESENTATION
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 graduate from various schools all over the world. The basic knowledge and skills belonging to architecture for thinking, designing and constructing is taught in these schools. Do all of the recent graduates in architecture have sufficient quality? What are the differences among the various architectural programs and their reflections? Do we need accreditation? What is the mission of an architect? What are the differences among the values belonging to various schools/countries?

Research and funding: opportunities and recent developments
Architecture is a discipline. Research produces knowledge, insight and understanding. Knowledge is produced through thinking and making. What kind of 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 between research and making? Does changing the statue/affiliation increase the quality/success in architectural research? How can research help to develop 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 overlap with interior architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, industrial design and art. How do we distinguish the place, the size and the subject of 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 school? Who is the subject of 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?

Calendar for the paper presentation:

Call: September 3, 2012

Abstract submission: October 15, 2012 > extended to December 1, 2012

Registration: January 21, 2013

Paper submission: February 15, 2013

Fee:

Professionals: 200 Euro (participation, conference book and cd, 5 coffee breaks, two lunches and one dinner)

Students: 150 Euro (participation, conference book and cd, two lunches and one dinner)

Note that:

Papers for the conference should be tailored to a 15-minute presentation timeframe.

Abstract content and format: Full title of the paper, Full names, postal addresses and e-mail addresses of all authors.

Summary of the paper in no more than 250 words.

All sent documents should have word format.

Registration will be confirmed after the attendees (one attendee necessary) send their flight tickets by e-mail

Conference Organization Committee will help for the hostel/hotel bookings

Accommodation and flights will be paid by the attendees

POSTER PRESENTATION:
Attendees who prefer to express their thoughts about the conference issues in one poster are welcome. Poster presentations might be made both by attending personally or virtual.

Calendar for the poster presentation:

Call: September 3, 2012

Abstract submission: October 15, 2012 > extended to December 1, 2012

Registration: January 21, 2013

Poster submission: February 15, 2013

Fee:

Professionals: 100 Euro (participation, 5 coffee breaks, poster printing)

Students: 50 Euro (participation, 5 coffee breaks, poster printing)

Note that:

Posters might be sent online (one vertical A1)

Conference Organization Committee will help for the hostel/hotel bookings

Accommodation and flights will be paid by the attendees

WORKSHOP: Intervening Istanbul
The workshop is a platform for experiencing team work with the participants from various schools on reading the dynamics of Istanbul and making an intervention to city life by constructing an interaction point. Schools are invited to take part in the workshop by their four representatives: one academician 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, “academician” and “student” statues are not valid during the workshop process. Subject and place of the workshop will be announced on the workshop date.

Calendar for the workshop:

December 10, 2012 Workshop registration

March 21, 2013 Workshop field trip

March 22, 2013 Preparation for the workshop presentations and the exhibition

March 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 Organization Committee will help for the hostel/hotel bookings

Accommodation and flights will be paid by the team members

SPEAKER’S CORNER:
Speaker’s Corner is a free platform for every individual to share her/his ideas with the audience. It is a very important unit for our conference which will take place as a parallel session with the paper presentations. It will be opened by a speech that will be given by our Special Guest. A time table will be announced with the opening of the Speaker’s Corner. It is preferred for the Speakers to take place on the time table before they attend the conference. Instantaneous speeches are also welcome if there is open space at the time table. Data projector/lap top, white board/board markers and sound system will be provided.

Calendar for the Speaker’s Corner:

March 21, 2013 Speaker’s Corner registration

March 22, 2013 Speaker’s Corner Opening Speech

Note that:

There is no fee

No invitation will be made

Accommodation and flights will be paid by the speakers

EXHIBITION: Starting architectural education
Considering Architecture as a unique discipline comprising knowledge of art, engineering and sociology, it can be understood how schools approaches to architectural education might differ. The starting activities/courses are supposed to constitute a vision for a new-coming student for the rest of her/his future architectural education. All European and Turkish universities are invited to share their first three months works of the students. The works might be final products or short exercises belonging to various courses of the first semester curricula. The main aim is to express the vision of the schools through one poster. The posters will be published in the conference book after the conference event.

Calendar for the exhibition
January 10, 2013 Exhibition submission (intention letter deadline)

February 10, 2013 Exhibition registration (online photoshop poster submission deadline)

March 10, 2013 Exhibition installation (posting deadline for poster hard copy – A0, vertical, 1mm. foam board)

PROGRAM
March 21-23, 2013 Workshop Intervening Istanbul

March 22-23, 2013 Conference

Opening of the conference

4 sequential paper presentation sessions starting with the keynotes

Poster presentations

Speaker’s corner

EAAE desk: For information and submissions for membership

Schools desk: A desk for the schools that prefer to share brochures and cds

Tea, Lunch and dinner breaks

Think tank

Workshop presentations

Forum: Manifestos for the future of architectural education

March 22-23, 2013 Exhibition 1: Starting architectural education

March 22-23, 2013 Exhibition 2: Final products for the workshop Intervening Istanbul

CONFERENCE DOCUMENTATION
A book with ISBN code and a cd including all activities will be prepared after the conference.

All presentations and events will be shared through the Conference web site. This web site will be active after the conference to keep the contact among the attendants.

KEYNOTES
Curricula: Different profiles/same diplomas

Chair: Murray Fraser

Keynote: 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

SPECIAL GUEST
Resit Soley

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Adalberto Del Bo

Arzu Erdem

Balint Bachmann

Bogachan Dundaralp

Burcu Kutukcuoglu

Esra Fidanoglu

Gulsum Baydar

Guven Arif Sargin

Hakan Gursu

Johan Verbeke

Kersten Geers

Kursad Ozdemir

Mehmet Kucukdogu

Mehmet Kutukcuoglu

Michiel Riedijk

Murat Ulug

Murray Fraser

Neslihan Dostoglu

Richard M. Sommer

Sait Ali Koknar

Selahattin Onur

Ugur Tanyeli

Urs Hirschberg

Zeno Bogdanescu

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING 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

EAAE PROJECT GROUP and TURKISH SUPPORTIVE TEAM
Istanbul Kultur University / Esra Fidanoglu (Chair)

Delft University of Technology / Suasanne Komossa

Ion Mincu University / Zeno Bogdanescscu

Istanbul Technical University / Arzu Erdem

Middle East Technical University / Guven Arif Sargin

Politecnico di Milano / Adalberto Del Bo

Sint Lucas / Johan Verbeke

University of Pecs / Balint Bachmann

Istanbul Kultur University / Ceren Göğüş

Istanbul Kultur University / Asli Yalcin

Istanbul Kemerburgaz University / Derya Yorgancioglu

Bahcesehir University / Nilay Ünsal Gülmez

Bilkent Üniversity / İnci Basa

Cyprus International University / Sevinc Kurt

Doğuş University / Sıla Durhan

Dokuz Eylul University / Müjde Altın

Eastern Mediterranean University / Resmiye Alpar

Fatih Sultan Mehmet University / Hasan Fırat Diker

Gebze High Technology University / Sedef Özçelik

Gediz University / Yenal Akgün

Girne American University / Hossein Sadri

Izmir University of Economy / Ahenk Yılmaz

Kocaeli University / Mehtap Özbayraktar

Maltepe University / Yekta Özgüven

Meliksah University / Beyhan Bolak Hisarligil

Mersin University / Esra Sahin Burat

Ozyegin University / Ilker Fatih Ozorhon

TOBB Economy and Technology University / Murat Gül

Yeditepe University / Zeynep Yazıcıoğlu Halu

Yeniyuzyil University / Gülay Yedekci Aslan