Kursinformation

There is, at present, a flourishing of new initiatives to radically rethink architectural education and its established pedagogies from the ground up. Championing open and transformative modes of learning, new institutions (and „ex-titutions“) such as the African Futures Institute in Accra, Ghana, or Floating University Berlin e.V. work towards a deinstitutionalisation and decolonialisation of current practices of built environment training. Their respective approaches to thicken the „margins“ and to frame the city as learning environment display architecture and urbanism’s own creative potential to re-design, re-organise and transform existing structures. In the context of ongoing massive global transformations on environmental, political, cultural, and economic levels, this creative potential of architectural knowledge and production illustrates even more its linkages with political and societal practices.

In this seminar, we want to envision and speculate future architecture schools. What kind of strategies, agencies and processes need to be activated for architecture schools to become equitable, diverse, and inclusive organisations, thus empowering students and future architects? Drawing from the knowledge derived from looking at selected texts from critical theory and inputs by contemporary change-makers, students will identify, analyse and engage with current transformative agencies in architectural education. As an outcome, students will produce speculative proposals for a future curriculum and its institutional framework.