An Intra-Debate: The Labyrinth of Knowledge Production:
Wednesday, Jul 23, 201411:04 PMEDT
| TU Delft Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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I TU Delft I Date: 23.07.2014. Time: 10.00 - 13.00h Feat: Salomon Frausto / The Head of Education at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Design Alexandra Tišma / Senior researcher and lecturer - Department of Landscape Architecture TU Delft Nanne de Ru / The director of The Berlage Birgit Hausleitner / Docent & Researcher at department of Urbanism TU Delft Mitesh Dixit / Editor of the Chair - Complex Projects - at TU Delft - contributions from phd researchers and students at TU Delft - more to confirm / stay fine-tuned. + Support: Post Office/ independent observatory Moderation: SCAPES:LAB Education in architecture and urban planning is continuously being reformed due to the tremendous plurality of possibilities; commonly it is based on specific expertise of the tutors behind it and their individualistic approaches. While witnessing the very current tendency towards ever high specialisation of different disciplines / courses, we nevertheless tend to not react to evident - and immense gaps - remaining in between. At the same time, another important-to-understand tendency has emerged, that for interconnected and interdisciplinary work within the society as such. Plausibly, increase in rethinking process of education models is evident; many new discourses are popping up independently, triggering with innovative reflections. Collaborative and non-hierarchical in structure: workshops, summer schools, symposium weeks, panel discussions and similar tools for flexible but accurate and precise findings are fostering entirely new breeds of knowledge production. It seems that (public) education models are generally slower to respond to this rapid acceleration in information exchange. The digitalized world, the fact of being connected now more than ever, all feed this spoon of regular education being challenged, and are providing everyone with what could be described as content saturation. This phenomenon can overload the capacity of students to critically reflect. Confusion arises. Bearing in mind economic and political uncertainty, reinforced with dramatic differences in living standards between north and south, east and west in Europe today, not to mention its complex multiculturality, how much do we really question education itself as a profession? How far can we test, implement and reevaluate the Bologna Accords which are, after all, aiming to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher education qualifications in an evolving Europe? We believe that the findings generated through morning sessions at TU Delft as part of FLAT.SCAPES:LAB will help in demystifying current trends. Using the opportunity to host a vibrant group of 150+ students of architecture, urbanism and related disciplines arriving from the completely different background of former Yugoslavia (one could say the final non-EU vestiges in Europe) it will engage this strong transnational group toward outcomes with benefits for all parties involved. http://flatscapeslab.blogspot.com/p/xxxx.html
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