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.
Courtesy of Space Coordinator. Designed by Mano Han
Space Coordinator, in collaboration with Seoul Metropolitan City, Korea, is inviting young architects from around the world to submit short films for the young architect competition Social Architecture: Open Political Spaces.
The Soutok project aims at the establishment and viable existence of the Soutok Periurban Park, which will ensure the coordinated development of the territory in economic, ecological, cultural and social terms. The subject of the competition is a landscape-urban concept for the revitalisation of the landscape of the confluence of the Vltava and Berounka rivers (approx. 1300 ha), including wider links with an emphasis on the landscape along the watercourses. The subject of the competition is also a more detailed elaboration of four sub-areas. Step 0 - registration in Tenderarena electronic tool (free, non-binding, but necessary) Step 1 - sending in a "Request for Participation" (basically a one-pager with references and filled-in forms) Step 2 -get selected by the jury, deliver the best design & win the competition
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Calle de los Negros (starting point of 1871 massacre) in Los Angeles, ca. 1876. University of Southern California.
The City of Los Angeles has issued a Request for Ideas (RFI) inviting artists, architects, designers, students, and other members of the public to submit ideas for a permanent physical memorial to a shocking but largely forgotten incident in Los Angeles history: the lynching of 18 Chinese at the hands of a vigilante mob in Los Angeles on October 24, 1871, the largest massacre of Chinese in California history and the largest mass killing of any kind in Los Angeles history (almost 10 percent of the city’s Chinese population at the time). Here is a link to the RFI.
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. Against the popular characterization of contemporary architecture as a centerless field where anything goes and everything is possible, this book argues that much recent work belongs to a collective undertaking. Underneath the impression of kaleidoscopic difference produced by the rapid circulation of design images is a shared mechanism, an agreement about how architectural objects emerge from the procedures of design. This mechanism, which we call inscription, manages to both offer fundamentally intelligible form to architecture’s audiences and advance the field toward novel outcomes. The ensuing work is nothing less than democratically optimistic in its wide appeal and challenging in its cuts against convention. Featuring essays by Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen, Phillip Denny, Edward Eigen, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, and Marrikka Trotter, Inscriptions offers a broad array of critical perspectives on work that defines architecture’s second decade of the twenty-first century.
During the Call for Concepts we invite creatives from all over the world to submit a concept for a light artwork. Do you have an illuminating idea? Then join our call!
