INNOVATING, HOUSING, LEARNING

HERA-C:   Housing Education ,Research & Advisory Center

Oikodomos International Conference
Brussels, 27-28 October 2011 at W&K Sint-Lucas School of Architecture
Paleizenstraat 65 1030 Brussels

The OIKODOMOS project brings together pedagogy, information and communication technologies and housing studies. This conference aims at bringing together professionals, academics and experts dealing with these areas of knowledge and with their interaction: architects, urban planners, sociologists or anthropologists addressing contemporary housing issues, architectural educators concern with pedagogic innovation, educational technologists dealing with the development and integration of learning environments. The conference will provide a forum for discussion of the latest developments in architectural pedagogy, as well as contemporary housing problems in contemporary European societies.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, 27th October 

14.00 - 14.15
Welcome and opening address by:
  • Johan Verbeke, Leandro Madrazo and the Head of Department, Sint Lucas School of Architecture, Dag Boutsen
14.15 - 15.00
Keynote lecture by:
  • Mirjana Devetakovic, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, SERBIA.
15.00 - 15.30
Break
15.30 - 16.00
Presentation by:
  • Sedef Ozcelik, Cahide Aydın İpekçi, Tarhan Arıkan (TURKEY): “Designing the Campus Settlement: A Studio Challenge”.
16.00 - 18.30
Presentations by:
  • Eva Morales Soler, Rubén Alonso Mallén (SPAIN): Web platform to promote “Housing as a Process”.
  • Marcela Pizzi, John Chalmers, Viviana Fernández, Valentina Avendaño, Macarena Cusato, Karen Rivera (CHILE): “Risk situations in Elderly Government Housing, provided by the State ofChile. Improvement through Architecture and Design".
  • Alberto Altés Arlandis (SPAIN): “Living Together: On the Role of Architecture in the Production of Habitable Collective Spaces”.
  • Avi Friedman, Aaron Sprecher, Basem Eid Mohamed (CANADA): “Implementation of Mass Customization Strategies in Housing: Survey and Reflections”.
  • Stefano Aragona (ITALY): “Does innovation support a better quality life?”
19.00
Conference dinner

Friday, 28th October 

9.30 - 10.15
Keynote lecture by:
  • Claudi Aguiló, DATAE Architects/ETSAV Barcelona, SPAIN.
10.15 - 10.30
Break
10.30 - 12.00
OIKODOMOS Virtual Campus: Learning from Experience.

Presentations by Partner Institutions:
  • Leandro Madrazo, School of Architecture La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, SPAIN
  • Kris Scheerlinck, School of Architecture Sint-Lucas, Brussels/Ghent, BELGIUM
  • Beril Ozmen, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, NORTH CYPRUS
Presentations by Associate Partners:
  • Norbert Kling, Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU), Cottbus, GERMANY
Student presentation, School of Architecture Sint-Lucas, Brussels/Ghent, BELGIUM

12.00 - 13.00
Lunch break
13.00 - 15.30
Presentations by:
  • Carmen Galán-Marín, Cristina Rosa-Roncero (SPAIN) : “Experimental houses: prefabrication and prototypes”.
  • Bruna Linhares, Helena Alarcão, Luís Carvão, Pedro Toste, Alexandra Paio (PORTUGAL): “Emergent design for humanized housing: towards a parametric-typological design tool”.
  • Melina Gennakis, Irene A. Lund (BELGIUM): “Housing and Neighbourhood stories: Approaching non utilitarian knowledge within the design studio”.
  • Ivor Mečiar, (SLOVAKIA): “Reflection of the multimedial design in the innovative development of housing structures”
  • Elina Krasilnikova, Maria Prohorova, Yulia Ivanitskaya (RUSSIA): “The design of residential complexes in the waterfront areas structure”
15.30 - 16.00
Break
16.00 - 17.00
Brainstorming session on hot topics in current housing design and related pedagogic models
17.00 - 17.30
Moving forward: strategies to expand the OIKODOMOS Virtual Campus
17h30 - 18.00
Conference closure

Parallel activities:
An e-conference will introduce and accompany the main conference program.
A live streaming of all interventions will be available for external participants.
An exhibition related to the conference topics and to the previous OIKODOMOS activities
will take place in the entrance hall of the Sint Lucas School of Architecture.

Registration:
Academics/professionals: 50 Euro (participation, digital proceedings, coffee/tea and lunch) or
100 Euro (participation, digital proceedings, coffee/tea, lunch and conference diner)
Students: free attendance, maximum forum 20 students (without lunch nor conference dinner).
To apply or to ask for payment data, please send a mail to: oikodomos@architectuur.sintlucas.wenk.be

 

  
     
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