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BREAKING THE CYCLE:
DESIGNING FOR A COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTRE

With the world constantly evolving, there is a ton of information being formulated out there. The human civilization is expected to keep up with this change and evolve with this developing world to open up multiple possibilities for a better future. Despite all the information available around us, the only way to best access it, is through reading and self-learning. As a major tool for the 21st century, self-learning is an important skill that is to be refined for future generations as they journey through education and beyond.

There is a growing modern trend of people abandoning their lives in large cities and opting instead to live in smaller communities. These intentional communities are an evolution of the utopian colonies and communes of the past, where individuals shared resources and responsibilities in equal measure. In the US alone the number of intentional communities has nearly doubled in recent years, with 1,200 communities registered in 2016.

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One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 30 talks with occurring 3 times each day to cover all the time zones in the world. Topics covering International Practice, AI and Architectural Practice, Reappraising the City, Agency, Borders and Immigration, Architects and Locality, Digital Technologies in the Post-Pandemic Future, The Future of the University, Bio-Futures, Transculturalism: The Space in Between, and many more.

Özyeğin University, 3rd and 4th grade architecture students are sharing their studio projects with a virtual exhibition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual exhibition, organized by students working in Architectural Design Studios run by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alessandro Camiz and Teaching Assist. Özge Özkuvancı, offers the opportunity to explore the studio works by visiting online.

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One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 80 workshops in 5 different languages that take place in 3 major time regions around the world. Topics covering artificial intelligence in Architecture to Design Fiction, Bio Design, AR/VR, Robotic Fabrication and NeuroDesign.

Join us for a lecture live-streamed from Shanghai with Liu Yichun, principle of Atelier Deshaus, who will be showing us highlights from the practice’s last 20 years designing iconic educational, cultural and domestic buildings.

Ready to join a virtual parade? Looking to create new, inventive and unique shared spaces for community and celebration while we all do our part staying home, the Toronto Society of Architects is taking our Pride celebrations to the virtual public realm with a one-of-a-kind design challenge.

The current global situation forces us to do all kinds of adjustments and we are seeing this as an opportunity to go out of our comfort zone and try something new. We are going online! This allows us to invite architects from different parts of the world and make it possible for you to get to know them from the “AnA perspective”, no matter where you are located. The first round of events will take place before mid-July. Join us!

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The Next 100 Years Project stands against racism. Because of recent events and civil unrest around the world, the deadline for submissions to the Next 100 Years Project – Architect Edition has been extended to June 28, 2020 at 11:59PM CDT. As before, the Next 100 Years Project invites architects from around the world to envision a hopeful, post-pandemic future for everyone.

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Over the past few months, the world has experienced many significant changes and our collective relationship to public spaces is among them. How do we find a new way to exist and share in public space? How do we do that safely? Can we rediscover the joy of our public spaces and build better normal around them?

Join d.talks on June 20 for a virtual Listening Session led by Métis scholar and associate professor, Dr. Yvonne Poitras Pratt. This session is an opportunity to develop an awareness of the narratives and histories that are often untold.

In this Urban Manifesto Series we will chronicle important ideas to improve urban living. We will talk to politicians, developers, architects, policy makers and activists from around the world to develop an urban manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future. This series is co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant, Founder of Urbanista.org & Prathima Manohar, Founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision. 

Co–times is a call for co-production. As the whole world, we are going through a difficult period. 2020, will marks an uncommon period that we remember it its uniqueness. Different countries, different cities, different people act with collective consciousness. We want to draw attention to the importance of co-production, sharing and cultural transmission in consideration of this extreme situation. Herewearch invites you a challenge that to think about the changes created by this current situation with a person you do not know but share the same condition and to make a small production together. - Statement from the Open Call: Herewearch Journal Issue #01: Co-Times.

Architects Admit is an online installation that asks people to confess their environmental sins in a climate-based confessional.

Vienna Design Week is Austria's largest curated design festival and has been taking place in Vienna since 2007. Recently it welcomed over 40,000 visitors to around 200 events per year. In 2020 Vienna Design Week will take place from the 25th of September to the 4th of October.

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Performance Architecture Online Summer School is an exciting learning journey designed to inspire, broaden and challenge the possibilities of spatial representation and design. Architecture is combined with other disciplines including art, cinematography and performance.