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1st OIKONET Postgraduate Workshop
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OIKONET starts a series of postgraduate workshops aimed at bringing together researchers interested to explore global dwelling in our contemporary societies from a multidisciplinary and multidimensional perspective. The workshop’s aims are:
- to facilitate the knowledge exchange among young researchers, especially PhD students working in fields related to dwelling in contemporary societies.
- to foster the creation of alliances between researchers and their institutions to continue developing pedagogic and research programs in areas related to the study of contemporary global dwelling.
- to keep developing a framework that brings together pedagogic innovation, housing research and community outreach in order to get a better understanding of today’s forms of dwelling and building.
The first workshop will be hosted by the School of Architecture of Valencia and it will take place on June 2017. If you would like to receive more information, please contact us info@oikonet.org.
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Over 60 delegates from 27 countries participated in the third OIKONET “Global Dwelling” conference in Manchester
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The third OIKONET conference on “Global Dwelling” took place in Manchester, UK, on September 23, 2016, and was hosted by the Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture, School of Art, Design and Fashion, University of Central Lancashire. Around 60 delegates from 27 countries, inside and outside Europe, participated in the conference. 24 papers were presented in the parallel sessions which were structured in three themes: 1. Sustainability of housing environments, 2. Innovation in housing design and planning; and 3. Participation in housing design and construction.
A selection of papers will be published in March by WIT Press. A digital version of the proceedings will be soon available at the project website.
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59 students and 25 tutors from 17 schools participated in the third OIKONET international workshop “Renewing / Revitalizing”, in Belgrade
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The third OIKONET international workshop took place at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, from 6th to 11th June 2016. This workshop was dedicated to examining strategies that embrace the multiple dimensions, scales and actors involved in the process of creating liveable cities. The area of study was Kosančićev Venac, a historical part of the city of Belgrade. It is a heterogeneous, mixed-use area connecting the Sava riverfront with the main pedestrian zone, next to the Kalemegdan fortress. The preparatory stage of the workshop has been done entirely online, using OIKODOMOS Workspaces. In Belgrade, students were organized in ten teams, each one composed of students from different schools to strengthen the cross-cultural and cross-educational exchange. Each team was tutored by teachers from different institutions. The students’ proposals have been published in the workshop blog. Posters of the proposals have been on display at the “European Centre for Culture and Debate Grad”, in the historical centre of Belgrade. A reportage about the Belgrade workshop appeared in the Serbian Radio Television.
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Second edition of the MOOC “Housing Design: from Concept to Fabrication”
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The second edition of the OIKONET MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) "Housing Design: from Concept to Fabrication" run in May/June 2016. Following the results of the first 2015 edition of the MOOC, the original program has been reviewed and some of the tasks streamlined to facilitate the work to learners. The learning structure is built around five subjects, each one corresponding to a module of the program: sustainability, energy efficiency, parametric design, digital fabrication, and participatory processes. The five modules led participants from social considerations for design of a simple model of a “Play house” up to the final outputs required for digital fabrication. Over 200 learners were following the MOOC activities in this second edition.
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OIKOPEDIA upgrade
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OIKOPEDIA -the OIKODOMOS Wikipedia- has been upgraded with 30 new entries written by OIKONET partners. The topics cover a wide range of issues which have been debated among the members of the Housing Research subnetwork, including: Affordable Housing, Urban Regeneration, Gentrification, Participation, Energy performance, and Sustainability. These entries are available in English, and also in French, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish.
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Learning spaces
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27 international bachelor and master students in architecture will participate in the OIKONET elective at the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven this spring semester. In previous years this elective addressed topics as “Threshold Matters” and “Small is Power”. On this occasion the topic will be “A Moment of Architecture” and it is intended to be a designerly reflection about the interrelationships between private and public realms. Teachers and researchers from UCLan- Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture, UK and from the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark, will participate in the elective course. You can follow the activities of the elective course in this Facebook group.
“Danube Urban and Cultural Studies” is a new learning space led by the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak Technical University which will run during the spring semester 2016/2017. Three new partners will be involved in this learning space: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; Technische Universität Wien, Austria; and Donau Universität Krems, Austria. The purpose of the learning activities will be to identify, analyze and apply strategies to strengthen the Danube regional cultural identity by fostering transnational cultural ties between the settlements along the river.
The second edition of the learning space “Urban Systems” was carried out in conjunction with “Research seminar on contemporary housing” conducted at the School of Architecture La Salle. As in the previous edition, the activities focused on understanding cities from a systems perspective. In this edition, the case studies were four urban axes in the city of Barcelona which concentrate the city’s activities around them. At the end of the seminar, students presented their proposals in a public hearing at Can Felipa, a community centre in the area of Poble Nou. Representatives of neighbours’ associations and urban activists attended the presentations and participated in a debate with students and teachers. The work done in the seminar was discussed in a colloquium broadcasted by Radio Ciutat Vella, a local radio station. An exhibition of the students’ works will be on display in the Can Felipa community center during April 2017.
On September 14th 2016 started the second edition of the “Thinking Dwelling” program at the School of Architecture La Salle. In the week from 19th to 23th September, students and teachers participated in a joint reflection about dwelling in our contemporary societies. Five presentations by faculty members followed by a discussion took place in the exhibition space especially organized for this event. The recorded presentations are accessible at the OIKONET YouTube channel.
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Conference Papers, Articles
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Carla Sentieri has presented a paper to the conference “JIDA'16. IV Jornadas sobre innovación docente en arquitectura” which took place in Valencia, Spain, on 20th and 21st October, 2016. The paper titled “The integration of a collaborative platform with the design studio: a reflection about the participation in the OIKONET project” summarizes the experience of the participation of the School of Architecture of Valencia in OIKONET, in particular, the work done in the learning space “Introduction to Housing”, which the school is leading since the academic year 2013/14.
Sandra Marques Pereira, from the University Institute of Lisbon, and Jim Roche, from the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT, have presented the paper “Across Disciplinary and National Borders: a pedagogical tool for re-use” at the 14th International Docomomo Conference that took place in, Lisbon, Portugal, from 6th to 9th September 2016. The paper contains a reflection on the work done at the first international OIKONET workshop, dedicated to analysing formal and informal settlements in Lisbon.
Leandro Madrazo and Angel Martin presented the paper “Developing strategies for sustainable neighbourhoods” at the conference of the European Network for Housing Research conference in Belfast. The paper summarizes the work done in the learning space “Housing Systems” which was dedicated to analyse the superblock model implemented in some areas of the city of Barcelona to improve the city’s liveability.
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