ARCHITECTURAL EPISODES 02: NEW DIALOGUES IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE/24-25 March 2022

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 an online 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.

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.

We invite proposals for paper presentations addressing one of the following themes under the main topic of dialogue:

DIALOGUE 1: CO-EDUCATION AND RELATED APPROACHES

• Educational Methods in Architecture
• Co-teaching Approaches
• E-learning Approaches and New Techniques
• New Models for Collaborative Learning
• Transformations in Architectural Education After the Pandemic
• New Paradigms of Design Studio Education

• Design Education and Entrepreneurism

• Architectural Criticism, History and Theory

DIALOGUE 2: CO-DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

• Design Paradigms After the Pandemic
• Design through Creativity and Collaboration
• Participatory Design in Architecture
• Multidisciplinary Design Studies
• Actors in Design Process
• New Media and Design
• Co-design and Research Methodologies
• Co-design in Interior Architecture

DIALOGUE 3: CO-HOUSING AND THE CITY IN NEW AGENDA

• New Design Principles in Housing
• House in Interaction with Outdoor Spaces
• Housing, Health and Pandemic
• Psychology and Dwelling Spaces
• New Preferences in Housing Market and its Future
• Cognitive City in New Conditions
• City, Urban Rules and Legislation
• Smart-city and Tourism

DIALOGUE 4: CO-REFLECTIONS ON DISASTERS

• New Understanding of Sustainability, Resilience and Ecology
• Responsibilities in Architectural Education
• Expectations in Architectural Practice
• Post-Disaster Architecture
• Urban/Rural Area and Landscape
• Culture, Heritage and Transformations
• New Dialectics in Climate Crisis
• Pandemic as a Disaster

DIALOGUE 5: CO-LINK OF ARCHITECTURE AND INDUSTRY

• Collaboration with Industry

• Collaboration with Community
• New Materials and Innovative Technologies
• Collaborative Digital Technologies in Architecture
• Construction Management and Collaboration
• Co-Production Processes
• Interaction Between Architecture and other Sectors