Communities have always thrived and sustained themselves through innovative collaborations with their environment and individuals that surround them. These have often been responses to diverse needs, ranging from celebrations to contestations, formal to informal associations or progressive development to building capacity and resilience. Agency that the communities gain through such associations empower them to translate their needs to tangible and intangible solutions, each unique to the problem, place and time. Architecture can thus be identified as a tangible solution to community needs that emanate out of a collaborative alliance.
The submitted essay should reflect on how collaborative architecture can be a tangible solution to attain good and functional design that enables diversity and inclusion. How do architects reimagine/reframe processes to design for and with communities? What are the possibilities for design interventions that would involve inter-disciplinary collaborations for community infrastructures?
Young Architects Festival Awards 2022. Credits: Indian Institute of Architects, Calicut Centre
The IIA Young Architects Festival 2022 is a national event, of The Indian Institute of Architects, to encourage & promote participation of Young Architects and to celebrate the contribution of the youngsters to the profession. This year the IIA Kerala Chapter has the pleasure and privilege of hosting this magnanimous event at Calicut and take pleasure in reintroducing the YAF Awards in a brand-new format to encourage, acknowledge, appreciate and honour the creative contribution of the younger IIA members in the field of architecture and to promote creative thinking for a resilient future.
The goal is to design a farmhouse for a maximum capacity of a joint family. The concept should address the climatic aspect and material aspect. Participants are encouraged to explore how the architecture of a place affects the behavior of people under its influence.
studio-based intensive design workshops Our eight-week intensive workshops feature unique design briefs and software workflows at the forefront of the spatial design industry. Regardless of your current skill levels, we welcome applicants from aspiring architects, game designers to any beginners to embark on design experiments; to explore conceptual ideas and to develop innovative research methodologies.
Studentship detail: The landscape of work in the creative industry, accelerated by the pandemic, is shifting towards hybrid work, involving in-person and remote collaborative practices. This means that as digital technology and virtual connectivity are becoming fully assimilated into everyday practice, the world is witnessing a transition from questions around how technology can be adopted and used in the workplace to those around how the new hybrid ecosystem should be humanised and designed to support workers holistically. Consequently, post-digital work will spatially, managerially, and socially juxtapose several seemingly conflicting constructs in the workplace (such as the need for simultaneous connectivity and disconnection; synchrony and asynchrony; individuality and collectively). This shift in work practices challenges the conventions of creative collaborative working.
Stroke survivors usually stay in rehab for a long time thus, the rehab has lots of potential to improve stroke survivors' recovery. The "Next Generation of Stroke Rehabilitation Centres" competition challenges students to design a rehabilitation center for 30 stroke survivors with new and ambitious ideas. This competition aims to optimize rehabilitation design based on research outcomes to meet stroke survivors' needs better as they recover.
In an upcoming lecture, Jenny Wu will discuss the evolution of the design work of her multi-awarded, Los Angeles-based architecture firm, Oyler Wu Collaborative.
Dr Theodore Spyropoulos, Director of the Architectural Association's Design Research Laboratory and Director at Minimaforms, will present a public lecture entitled Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty.
'Furniture is how we tame a space.' So says go-to interior designer India Mahdavi. Find out what she, along with Pearson Lloyd, Doshi Levien and Patrick Norguet, have to say about the relation between products and space, as well as the rapidly shifting leading design But how strong is our resolve when it comes to a consistent and meaningful approach to sustainability in architecture and design?
The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF), the world’s largest festival dedicated to architecture and design, returns this fall. The 22/23 season will kick off with ADFF:NY (September 28-October 2), followed by ADFF:Toronto (November 2-5), ADFF:Vancouver (November 9-12), ADFF:LA (January 19-22), and ADFF:DC (January 26-29), with other cities to be announced. The Festival will also make a virtual appearance at ADFF:ONLINE (February 8-17).
The Energy Strategies Summit - a knowledge and exchange platform bringing together some of the industry`s most brilliant minds to share what is new and next in Lebanon, was created in 2020 with the goal of preparing the energy sector for a new start.
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Anne Lacaton, Co-Founder of Lacaton & Vassal, Winner of I Edition of Living Places (2016). Image Courtesy of Simon
The IV edition of the biennial Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize for architecture nominations and registrations is still open and will close on the 15th of September via www.simonprize.org. Inscription and participation are entirely free of charge and the winning teams receive a cash prize of 10.000 €. The vocation of this recognition is to distinguish those architectural projects (including interiors, public spaces and landscaping) whose excellence enhances the capacity of the spaces to ensure the comfort of its inhabitants. Architectures that turn into higher quality spaces for people in their day-to-day lives: to work, to learn, to wait, to play... Architectures to live in.
