THINKING DWELLING is a pedagogic program initiated in the year 2015 at the School of Architecture La Salle, Ramon Llull University, coordinator of the OIKONET project.
The first edition of the program was carried out during 2015/16 with the participation of six schools of architecture which are part of the OIKONET network: La Salle, Barcelona (Spain); KUL, Leuven (Belgium); School of Architecture of Valencia (Spain); Istanbul Technical University (Turkey), Grenoble-Alpes University (France); and Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.
The second edition is running during the academic year 2016/17. The program started at La Salle School of Architecture with a series of lectures and debates which are recorded in the OIKONET YouTube channel.
The objective of THINKING DWELLING is to encourage students and teachers of architecture –of all courses and levels– to reflect on the forms of dwelling in our global societies and to develop a critical understanding which enables them to envision the role of the architect in the shaping of the spaces we inhabit.
Students and teachers –from all courses and levels– are invited to participate in this program by sending their contributions to the three proposed activities:
Representing
To provide examples of ways of living through different art forms. For example, the relationship between inhabitants and space expressed in a film scene, a painting, a photograph, a passage of book, a piece of music...
Experiencing
To express the relationships with the spaces we live in, using any form of representation: a drawing, a video, a photograph, a text, a sound, in any combination.
Projecting
To collect personal experiences about renowned houses, to comment on relevant examples of housing design.
These activities can be linked to the courses carried out at each school in different ways. If you are an OIKONET partner and would like to take part of THINKING DWELLING, please contact us.
This project is funded with the support from the European Commission(Project number 539369-LLP1-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS). This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.