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🔵 New paper by Massimo Menichinelli, team member of Elisava Research, Annapaola Vacanti (Università Iuav di Venezia), Francesco Burlando (Università degli Studi di Genova), and Isabella Nevoso (Università degli Studi di Padova): "The More-Than-Human Trend in Design Research: A Literature Review". The implications of contemporary technological and environmental changes are driving a transition in human practices toward approaches that widen and shift the focus beyond human needs. These approaches leverage new ideas and concepts coming from the posthumanist perspective, which has been gaining momentum across several disciplines, including the design field. As several researchers have started to take interest in those themes, experimental methods and practices have been growing along with different definitions, which may accentuate the complexity of producing consistent advances in the discipline. The objective of the article is to review the existing literature on design practices and approaches that, during the last decade, have evolved beyond the focus of a single user and are thus defined with terms such as More-Than-Human Centered Design, Ecosystemic Design, Posthuman Design, etc. The outputs of the integrative literature review offer a clearer picture of the phenomenon. Download the paper > https://lnkd.in/dfpVpBFD #ElisavaResearch #Design #Research #PostHuman

UDL Thesis Publication | 2024 Curating the best Thesis projects globally! Call for Abstracts Now Open! Regular registration ends on 22nd May, 2024 ! Register and submit abstract today to be a part of this prestigious global publication (allocated ISBN). For more details and submission guidelines visit the LINK in Bio! . . . . #urbandesignlab #urbandesign #UrbanPlanning #urbanlandscape #UrbanRenewal #publication #thesispublication #architecturethesis #architecturethesis #designthesis #architecturedesign #thesis #architecturecourses #contemporaryarchitecture #architecturestudent #designarchitecture #architectureprojects #architecturecollege #architectureanddesign #thesisproject #architecturebooks #masterthesis #thesiswriting #architecturesection #thesisproposal #architecturecompetition #architecturestudentofficial #architecturestyle #architecturemapping #architecturedrawing

UDL Thesis Publication | 2024 Curating the best Thesis projects globally! Call for Abstracts Now Open! Regular registration ends on 22nd May, 2024 ! Register and submit abstract today to be a part of this prestigious global publication (allocated ISBN). For more details and submission guidelines visit the LINK - https://lnkd.in/dXZrQfmA . . . . #urbandesignlab #urbandesign #UrbanPlanning #urbanlandscape #UrbanRenewal #publication #thesispublication #architecturethesis #architecturethesis #designthesis #architecturedesign #thesis #architecturecourses #contemporaryarchitecture #architecturestudent #designarchitecture #architectureprojects #architecturecollege #architectureanddesign #thesisproject #architecturebooks #masterthesis #thesiswriting #architecturesection #thesisproposal #architecturecompetition #architecturestudentofficial #architecturestyle #architecturemapping #architecturedrawing

Imagining the Solarpunk University Collegues and current students at the UEA might be interesting in these upcoming workshops that I have co-organised that are intended to explore what a Solarpunk university might look, function and feel like. Solarpunk is a literary genre, design philosophy and aesthetic movement that is focused on producing positive visions of the future. The purpose of these workshops is to introduce solarpunk to a wider audience as well as imagine how solarpunk principles might be applied to the UEA.  The first session, An introduction to solarpunk (Weds 7th February, NEWSCI 0.01, 1pm) will focus on explaining and exploring what Solarpunk is, unpacking the background, principles and contradictions of the approach.     The second session (Tuesday 13th February, ZICER 0.02, 1pm) is entitled UEA – Lessons from a speculative Post-War Utopia. It will explore what we can learn from history when we are trying to imagine its future. Jon Wright is an architectural historian and conservationist who has been instrumental in the recent work to maintain and develop the UEA campus. Solarpunk is often utopian, just as the UEA was designed to be, and it is important to understand how these visions can interact with the real world.      The third and final session The Solarpunk University (Weds 28th February, Enterprise Centre, 1.06 1pm) will be a creative session during which we will produce a range of visions of how a solarpunk university will look, feel and operate. We hope that there might be enough of these visions to produce some kind of exhibition or publication later in the year.  

Reminder - Two Important Deadlines! Don’t forget the JAE has issued two open calls for participation. Call for JAE Fellows (2024-2025) Deadline: February 1st (TODAY but the application is quite short) The JAE and ACSA recognize the critical need to support the scholarship of architectural educators and researchers who face and continue to encounter systemic and structural obstacles, including racism, within academia and beyond. As a step toward this commitment, we have established one-year Fellowships and online publication commitments for cohorts of four architectural educators, designers, and researchers per year who self-identify as Black, Native/Indigenous, and/or as members of groups that are and have been historically and systemically marginalized and excluded, and whose academic labor is precarious, including adjunct, lecturer, and other non-tenure track faculty. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/eR2GDXt5⁠ Call for JAE Editorial Board Members (2024-2024) Deadline: March 1st  The Journal of Architectural Education invites applications for at-large positions on the Editorial Board. Founded in 1947, JAE is published twice a year by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). For over 75 years, it has been the primary venue for peer-reviewed research and commentary on architectural education. Architectural education has evolved, as has the nature of architectural scholarship. With this call, the JAE seeks to continue reflecting on these important shifts by building an editorial board that encompasses the full breadth of practices in architectural education, research, and scholarship. Learn More: https://bit.ly/3sVSTQK #JAE #journal #architectural #education #research #peerreview #architecture #design #faculty #editorialboard #JAEFellows #ACSA #publication #BIPOCScholarship

I am pleased to announce the completion of my dissertation for RIBA Part 1 as a Year 3 Student of Architecture. The title goes by: The Spatial Politics of Dystopian Film: The Condition of Alienation under the Evolving Domain of Capitalist Spatiality as reflected through Dystopian Films. If this sounds like a topic that interests you, then I will eventually be sharing the fully body. Please find below a brief description, outlining the focus of the dissertation: 'Utilising the critical framework of Henri Lefebvre, the urban settings of each PlayTime, Blade Runner and Minority Report (in order of production) undergo an in-depth analysis, exploring the films’ critical commentary on capitalist spatiality. By drawing a thread between these three films, this dissertation produces a series of arguments investigating how the patterns and trends of capitalist space, and thus the condition of alienation, has evolved over time, manipulating its form (post-war to contemporary society). Moreover, these arguments draw upon real world case studies - architectural paradigms - providing a contextual relevance to the socio-spatial discussions uncovered by the film analyses. In its totality, this dissertation aims to not only expose the condition of alienation and how it arises - through the visual medium of film - but to offer notions that suggest its prevention (disalienation), to architects and urban designers. This concludes in the primary goal of this dissertation: the search for truly democratic space under the dominion of ‘The Spectacle’ - a dystopia of capitalist powers, commodification and ‘mystification’.' (Wooldridge, H, 2023). #architecture #architectural #dissertation

Concluding the multi-mode and -node symposium “Aesthetics, Care and Action” at University of Central Asia and UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture on Sep 18, the call is out for a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE), University of Illinois Press, scheduled for the first quarter of 2026. The deadline for full manuscript submissions 31 Dec, 2024. Please join us in exploring the topic. https://lnkd.in/g3PScMvJ Provocation (short version): As a discipline and practice, aesthetics and, by extension, aesthetic education, might seem peripheral in the face of unprecedented social, environmental, and economic challenges, including catastrophic climate change and the Faustian pact we seem to be forging with AI. Despite its long and exclusive history in teaching and study of beauty and artistic expression, in contemporary literature aesthetics has evolved to include the development of ethical awareness, understanding, compassion and action – qualities arguably essential in times of crisis.

Assistant Professor Asma Mehan, PhD contributed a chapter titled “Decolonizing Architectural Pedagogy” in the edited volume Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time, published by Springer Nature. The book explores the rarely examined concept of time in education, with the editors urging an analysis of time ‘in itself,’ highlighting its many dimensions through personal reflections and educational events. Challenging linear and neoliberal notions of progress and efficiency, the work avoids the “Time’s-(killing)-arrow” mode and introduces themes such as temporality, timescapes, timetables, and the finality of time. The book draws on philosophical works by Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, physics studies by Karen Barad, and literature by T.S. Eliot to inspire new ways of thinking about time. The volume has received recommendation from Karen Malone, Professor of Environmental Studies, Swinburne University, Australia, Jayne Osgood, Professor in Education, Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University, UK, and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, Professor of Educational Theory & Practice, University of Georgia, USA. To access the edited book, click the link here: https://lnkd.in/diy28Q-s To read the chapter, click the link below: 

I am pleased to announce that our paper (Authors: Amany Khalil, Samir Hosny, @Dalia Anis, Sameh Emam, Basma Muhamed, @Salma Elgendy, Nouran Ashraf, and Randa Khalil) entitled “Towards a Process-based Model that incorporates professional practice in the teaching of Architectural Design, with Reference to a Pre-Senior Design Studio” has been published in the AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 33. The paper was presented in Applying Education in a Complex World: Teaching and Learning, AMPS Conference, Sheridan, Canada. This paper proposes a process-based model for teaching 'Architectural Design Courses' to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The model involves three phases: course preparation, testing the methodology, and post-professional practice evaluation. The model successfully bridged the gap between academia and practice, positively impacting students' practical lives. Please find the article in AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 33. https://lnkd.in/dCX5NFYS or in Research Gate: https://lnkd.in/d9CwdjB5 #Architectural_Design #Architecturl_Edit_Design #Design_Studio #AMPS2023

Looking forward to this important discussion as we stand at the threshold of spacial computing.