Theme
Sustainable Education in Integration times. Multi-disciplinary advanced experiences: Internationalization. Trans-disciplinarity. Project oriented Learning. Development of higher order cognitive learning skills.

Antecedents
To contribute to these goals organizes periodically international events which last versions adopted the name of International Seminar on Pedagogics of Architecture and Urbanism, in Spanish SIPAU. This VI SIPAU will continue considering last trends on the field of pedagogical and scientific conceptions and of research tools by one side and in another side the development of higher cognitive skills to facilitate an effective apprenticeship orient to the participation in the solution of social problems. It is about to deepen in a sustainable approach, namely integrative, complex, systemic, bio-cybernetic, trans-disciplinary and applied in its broader conception to the education for Urbanism and Architecture. With the goal of integrating in its approach the management and curricular processes of the Education, very often handled isolated, the event propose a work structure that goes from the general to the most particular pretending an iterative transit across the complex and diverse space-time ambits that corresponds to the education in Urbanism and Architecture. The event invites to participate in the debate educators and actors of any field or sector that can contribute, in any or several aspects of the problematic, to the new necessary vision for the education in a future of integration in the frame of growing complexity and of the urgent necessity for the integration of social processes.

Thematics
The general education process and the new global paradigms
The new paradigms about the conception of the world, science and research. Complexity of actual problems in Urbanism, Architecture and Design from a cultural, environmental, functional, technological and other points of view. The Impact of globalization, and of the new technologies of information, communication and building construction. Ethical fundaments and conceptual transformations.

Systematic management of processes in academic institutions
The Impact of new scientific- and research paradigms in the academic structure and institutional processes. Trends and experiences of integrated handling of multi-and trans-disciplinary, pedagogic-didactic and institutional-academic aspects. Trends and experiences about the integration between learning-teaching, research and community outreach. Training and management of human resources.

Systemic management of the Curriculum
New strategies and pedagogic models. Education on values and attitudes. Transdisciplinary as methodological and scientific tool for educational process structuring. Problem oriented learning and development of higher order cognitive learning skills. Strategies for new curriculum development. Learning-Teaching of Design / Projecting at different levels and the needed multi-disciplinary integration. New approaches and experiences about research and about permanent, semipresential and virtual education. Connecting strategies with own professional processes. Connections with related disciplines and professions. Learning evaluation. Accreditation.

Interdisciplinary academic committee
- President: Dr. Arq. Rubén A. Bancrofft Hernández.
- Executive Secretary: Arq. Yanamari Bancroft Pérez.

Members
- Dr. Arq. Jorge Peña Díaz, Dean.
- Dr. Arq. Lourdes Ortega Morales, President of the National Commission for Curriculum Development.
- Dr. Arq. Pedro Tejera Garófalo, Vice Dean for Post-graduate Studies and Research.
- Dr. Eng. Vivian Elena Parnas, Vice Dean for Academic Extension.
- Dr. Eng. Marietta Llanes Pérez, Vice Dean for academic Affairs.
- Dr. Arq. Joiselen Cazanave Macías, Chair for Urban and Architectural Design Studios
- Dr. Cs. Ing. Ángel Martínez González, Chair for Building Technology and Construction.
- Arq. Karen Sanabria, Chair for Graphics in Urbanism and Architecture
- Dr. María V. Zardoya Loureda, Center of Urban Studies for Havana-CEU-H.
- Dr. Arq. Mabel Matamoros Tuma, Design Issues.
- Dr. Arq. José Flores Mola, Building Technology.
- Lic. Florencia Peñate Díaz, Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism.
- Arq. Larissa Castillo Rodríguez, Graphics in Architecture and Urbanism.
- Dr. Ada Portero R., Heritage Rehabilitation.
- A representative authority from each of the other three Faculties of Construction in the country.

Presentation of papers and participation
You can participate as speaker, observer or escort delegate. Students accredited by its institutions have a reduced fee. The guidelines for the presentation are located at the web page of the Conference. Deadline for the reception of papers is September 30th, 2010 to the electronic address of the Conference. Papers received after this date could not be included in the Proceedings.

Working sessions
The event will begin with plenary sessions for the conceptual positioning with main lectures and papers about the themes. Group analysis of papers will follow. Plenary sessions for the final positioning will close the event.

Accreditation
Inscription fee for delegates an students includes a module with the digital memory of the event, right to participate in academic activities, inauguration and closure and attendance certificate in case of presenting a paper or a lecture. The inscription fee for attendant includes only the participation in the opening and closure activities.

Delegates: 220,00 CUC
Students: 80,00 CUC
Attendant: 70,00 CUC

Paper sending and payment way
The papers must be sent to:
- Arq. Yanamari Bancroft > sipau2010@arquitectura.cujae.edu.cu
- Dr. Rubén A. Bancrofft > bancroft@tesla.cujae.edu.cu
The payment can be done on line through the web page of the event http://www.cciacuba.com or can be done in cash (CUC) at the moment of accreditation in the Congress desk.

Fuente: VI International Seminar on Pedagogics of Architecture and Urbanism (SIPAU)

WAF, el evento anual internacional que premia la excelencia en un formato en vivo e interactivo, se realiza este año del 3 al 5 de noviembre en Barcelona.

World Architecture Festival is architectural excellence, live. Download the 2010’s Winner Brochure to see all the inspirational projects that won awards in their category and section. Find out more in the Winners Brochure. All these projects can be found on the World Buildings Directory, a living and permanent archive of ALL ENTRANTS into the WAF Awards to date – all entrants into the 2011 WAF Awards will be added to this site. Enter the Awards today – entries close 2 July.

WAF in numbers
3 days / 42 categories / 100+ buildings covered / 15 seminar sessions / 30 prestigious awards / 70+ expert judges / 300 shortlist presentations / 2000+ attendees from 70+ countries / 1000+ entrants into the WAF Awards so far / INFINITE INSPIRATION.

Benefits of entering the WAF Awards
1. Guaranteed exhibition in Barcelona in November. Every single entry will be displayed in our extensive awards gallery to be viewed by hundreds of international architects.
2. Chance of being shortlisted to present live, in front of prestigious juries and peers, at the festival, and compete for a coveted WAF prize. Plus a great opportunity to hone a great architectural skill – the art of presentation!
3. Permanent listing on our living archive, www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com, a definitive guide to the best of the world’s architecture and design which receives over 1000 visits a day.
4. Opportunity to win a WAF award, a highly prestigious accolade that could help you win work and public acclaim.
5. Exposure to the world’s architectural press. Last year WAF generated 6000+ articles in 100 countries around the world through the help of our PR experts, FD and our 100+ media partners.
6. All category and section winners go onto feature in the Winners Brochure which is circulated to 100,000 people across 100+ countries during the following entry period and hosted on our website for 12 months – this ensures maximum exposure all year round.
7. The winning building will feature on the homepage of the www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com for 12 months and articles will be posted on our main website which attracts over 10,000 visits a week.

WAF is the only annual international event to reward excellence in a fully interactive inclusive live format. Find out more by visiting our website at www.worldarchitecturefestival.com.
Through its unique entry and judging process and its cutting edge seminar and exhibition content, it is simultaneously a celebration of great architecture and an intellectual challenge to a major world profession. Find out more in the entry guide.
No other event offers architects around the world this type of inspiration and stimulation. Enter the WAF Awards today – now less than 1 month till entry deadline on 2 July.

You can save €550 on festival passes during the entry period – one entry plus two tickets costs just €995.
Priority code, please quote: MIKNET

Call WAF on: +44 (0) 20 7554 5800
Email WAF at: info@worldarchitecturefestival.com
Online at: www.worldarchitecturefestival.comno

Fuente: WAF Awards 2010

The Government Service for Land and Water Management (DLG) and the Dutch Association of Regional Water Authorities (UvW) are organizing the symposium ‘Water management & Spatial Planning’ on the 13th of October in the Watermuseum in Arnhem. The central theme of this gathering will be ‘Optimal integration of water functions in the spatial planning of rural areas’, in the context of the development of nature and recreation areas and ensuring agricultural sustainability. International experts will share their vision of the relationship between water management and spatial planning in the 13th edition of the NethCID symposium.

The cohesive nature of the different uses of an area is increasingly acknowledged in the process of area development. An array of stakeholders such as inhabitants, governments, entrepreneurs and organized interest groups has to rely on each other to define and realize important socio-economic and spatial tasks. Water management is one of these. A key issue is the integration of the planning and management of the water system into the planning and management of an area as a whole. During the seminar we will analyze the balancing of different interests and the mutual reconciliation in spatial planning and highlight any notable similarities and differences.

Improvement interaction in rural development
The goal of this symposium is to name the necessary conditions that lead to a process of integration and reconciliation in rural development, between the private and public parties involved, the (intended) uses of a rural area and the financing of (re)development and management. During the program, the chairman Peter Glas, also chairman of the Regional Water Authority will take a closer look at interesting contrasts in approach and balancing functions and interests in different countries and regions. Of course this is all with the end goal in mind of learning from each other about water catchments, water storage and water drainage and simultaneously improving the quality of space, safety, recreation, the natural environment and or agriculture. You will find more information on www.nethCID2009.nl where you can apply from this moment on (price € 149 p.p.).

NethCID2009
The Dutch Committee of the International Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), the Nethcid, has facilitated the symposium. ICID is an organization of professionals in the area of water management with members in 70 countries. This year the international symposium will be hosted and organized by the Government Service for Land and Water Management (DLG) and the Dutch Association of Regional Water Authorities (UvW).

For 75 years the Government Service for Land and Water Management has been the obvious green partner in rural development. The Government Service for Land and Water Management works with partners, inhabitants, governments and interested parties on realizing the optimal spatial planning of green areas. Spatial planning and management of the water system plays a key role.

The Dutch Association of Regional Water Authorities aims to promote the interests of Regional Water Authorities (‘waterschappen’) at a national and international level. All of the 26 Regional Water Authorities are member of the Association. The main task of the Association is safeguarding the interests of its members with regard to third parties, more particularly the national government and parliament. This function becomes apparent, for example, in consultations with the ministries and Members of Parliament, in comments on policy documents and memorandums, in the participation of advisory and consultative bodies, and so on.

For more information or for an application to NethCID2009 you can contact Xander de Bruine, project manager NethCID2009, tel. number: 0031 6 51522405 or email address: xander@projectplatforms.com

Fuente: Symposium on ‘Water Management and Spatial Planning’

Lilium Tower – Zaha Hadid Architects | MVRDV – Brabant Library | UNStudio – Changing Room

The URBAN VISIONS exhibition opens on Thursday July 9 at 5 pm with an introduction by the curator, Michele Bonino. A first talk will follow, in which representatives from the participating cities will illustrate the projects to the public and will offer cue for the discussions within the Friday morning forum. On July 10, starting at 10 am, the forum will provide an important moment for the debate on urban development and on the possible, different directions it may take.

For a preview on the contents of the exhibition and to see the complete list of participating cities, please see the exhibitions page on the official BEYOND MEDIA website.

THE VIEW MASTERS

This year BEYOND MEDIA conceived a special program, which complements the video contest, which presents the works produced by 3 architecture offices that have demonstrated peculiar and fertile employment of video over the course of the years.

Lilium Tower – Zaha Hadid Architects | MVRDV – Brabant Library | UNStudio – Changing Room

With THE VIEW MASTERS, BEYOND MEDIA is happy to offer its audience a unique opportunity for seeing and comparing the videos produced by MVRDV, UNStudio and Zaha Hadid Architects selected by Image ARCHIVE.

The screenings of the videos will occur during 3 sessions.

Thursday July 9 at 9 pm
THE VIEW MASTERS: MVRDV
in cooperation with Wieland & Gouwens: MetaCITY DATA TOWN, NL 1999, 10’30” (short version); BRABANT LIBRARY, NL 2000, 5’00”; PIG CITY, NL 2001, 13’07”; MARKET HALL, NL 2007, 1’05”; SKY CAR CITY, NL 2008, 2’41”

Friday July 10 at 9 pm
THE VIEW MASTERS: Zaha Hadid Architects
Kartal Pendik Masterplan, UK 2006, 1’13”; Icone bag for Louis Vuitton, UK 2006, 1’27”; Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, UK 2007, 1’02”; Lilium Tower, UK 2007, 1’56”; London 2012 Acquatics, UK 2008, 1’14”

Saturday July 11 at 9 pm
THE VIEW MASTERS: UNStudio
Möbius House, NL 1998, 5’35”; Datenprozess, Mercedes-Benz Museum, NL 2005, 2’00”; UNStudio, documentary, NL 2007, 13’16”; The Changing Room, NL 2008, 3’19”; Music Theatre, NL 2009, 8’11”

Please visit the website for a preview of the works!

Experimental Media in Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972

BEYOND MEDIA presents – thanks to the recent reinterpretation by Peter Lang, Luca Molinari and Mark Wasiuta – an exceptional selection of videos which were originally produced on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Emilio Ambasz at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1972. The exhibition “encountered the dynamic and complexly political Italian design context of the early seventies, which it examined and organized into a matrix of categories, differences and distinctions” and it consecrated the radicalism and anticonformism of Italian design, in the works of Sottsass Jr., Colombo, Superstudio, Pesce.

Experimental Media in Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972

On Friday July 10, starting at 10:30 pm, the public will be able to watch, over 30 years later, these unique and precious documents which will be commented by Peter Lang (Texas A&M University).

Ettore Sottsass Jr. (directed by Massimo Magri), untitled, IT 1972; Superstudio, Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on Earth, IT 1972; Joe Colombo (directed by Livio Castigloni and Gianni Colombo), Total Furnishing Unit, IT 1972; Gae Aulenti (directed by Massimo Magri), untitled, IT 1972; Mario Bellini (directed by Davide Mosconi), untitled, IT 1972; Gaetano Pesce (directed by Klaus Zaugg), untitled, IT 1972; Alberto Rosselli (directed by Osvaldo Marini, with Ernesto Prever), An Idea for a Mobile House, IT 1972; Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper (directed by Giacomo Battiato), untitled, IT 1972.

BEYOND MEDIA, International Festival for Architecture and Media, will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009. Organized by Image www.image-web.org, and curated by Marco Brizzi, BEYOND MEDIA has been constantly observing, since 1997, the development of the systems of communication in the field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary architectural production and by promoting their understanding and enhancing their quality. The festival offers its visitors an articulate and rich program of events.

The theme for the forthcoming edition of BEYOND MEDIA is VISIONS.

BEYOND MEDIA
c/o Image
via Venti Settembre 84, 50129 Firenze, ITALY
tel: +39 055 4684 187, fax: +39 055 4624 808
www.beyondmedia.it, info@beyondmedia.it

Fuente: Beyond Media 2009: Urban Visions / The View Master

PICNIC AT THE TEMPIO RIVER (photo by Salvatore Gozzo)

The foundational element of the workshop is the Linear Park. And all of the activities are to take place in the area surrounding its core. The project for the Linear Park has a long and significant history which started off when its founder, Marco Navarra started to sense that a series of old abandoned train-tracks, located at the heart of Sicily, could come back to life with an alternative function of their own. The Linear Park become the site where every spring architects and designers coming from all over the world meet to talk about the landscape and work on the interactions it has with arts and architecture.

http://www.picniclab.net/ 

Fuente: Building Textures. The PICNIC at the Tempio River is back

The Second Symposium is associated this year to the exhibition “Multirambles”, a study in which Intelligent Coast presents opportunities for Barcelona to rethink the one hand, the competitiveness of its main economic engine, and secondly, quality and coherence of its urban model. The exhibition opening is on May 28 at 8.00 pm in DHUB-Hub Disseny Barcelona, c / Montcada 12, 08003 Barcelona.

Participants
Political participants, businessmen, town planners, architects, geographers,
economists, sociologists, and leaders of opinion will expose their thoughs
about an intelligent way of innovating in a creative and tourist
metropolis.
Dates: 28 and 29 May 2009
Place: Auditorium Museo Picasso c / Montcada 15-23 08003 Barcelona
Schedule:
28 may, from 16 h to 20h,
29 may, from 9.30h to 20 h
Tickets
Price: 80 euros
Capacity: 150 registrants
Registration open from March 01 until May 28
Simultaneous Spanish-Catalan-English

Contact:
coordinator@intelligentcoast.es
Tel.: 93 451 36 64

Fuente: II international symposium Tourism XXL – Urban innovation on tourist metropolis

You can find information on past editions of Woz, and subscribe to the sixth edition, by accessing the site:
http://www.wozlab.net.
Contacts: vivian@wozlab.net / cogliandro@wozlab.net

Fuente: Woz – Political Independent Workshop Of Collaborative Design

Introductory Statement by the General Commissioners
Consumption, participation, fun, solidarity, growth, modesty, engagement, balance, austerity, love, hope, cooperation… How do we want to live? Global injustice is increasing ever more visibly, and climate change and environmental destruction contribute their part. One can no longer feel comfortable with this even in the rich West. At the same time, the majority does not appear willing to do without the amenities of their bubble of affluence. How long can we continue to afford this indifference? Is it possible to dissolve the contradictions? Is there a future between consumption and cooperation, between growth and austerity, between fortification and freedom?
These are big questions. Architecture can and does contribute to answering them. Buildings are sealed, insulated and optimized. But that will not be enough. That’s why we are interested in concepts, ways of thinking and strategies that aim to change behaviour patterns and our ideas of life. As radical pragmatists, we thereby operate with updates. We are familiar with updates from the computer: the system is further developed in steps. Each version brings improvements and innovations, but sometimes also new mistakes. For the problems of our world we also need many small steps that can rapidly become larger. Updating Germany shows such small and large steps – ecologically and socially sustainable projects that are conceived, planned or built in Germany or by German architects, designers and engineers. Primarily these are research projects, design experiments and pilot projects – and not just in architecture and urban planning. Here the point is not right or wrong, nor completeness. The challenges are much too complex for that. Rather, the aim here is a joint search we must all carry out. The projects we present are merely suggestions and inspiration for this. One may laugh at some of the ideas some day, while in retrospect others will be recognized as pioneers of a new way of thinking, perhaps even of a new epoch.
One thing is clear: we must think and act in many directions at the same time. There will be detours and wrong turns. We will have to live with this multi-optionality. We see it as opportunity, perhaps our last opportunity. A new idea about life will emerge, a new culture.
An architecture that is more than building will be part of it. Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger, May 2008

Fuente: Germany at the Architecture Biennale Venice 2008

La Biennale di Venezia’s 53rd International Art Exhibition will run from 7th June to 22nd November 2009 in the traditional venues of the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as in various other locations around the city. The dates have been fixed by the Biennale’s board of directors, chaired by Paolo Baratta. As already announced, the Director of the Visual Arts Sector of the Biennale is Daniel Birnbaum, with specific responsibility for curating the 53rd International Art Exhibition.Born in Stockholm in 1963, Daniel Birnbaum is curator for institutions and exhibitions internationally and has since 2001 been Rector of the Staedelschule in Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany), an international Academy that brings together contemporary art and the development of new practices and techniques. Since 1998, he has been an editor of Artforum, New York, for which he has been regularly writing since 1995. He has also regularly contributed to other periodicals, such as Parkett and Frieze since the early 1990s.

Upon being nominated on 7th April 2008, Daniel Birnbaum declared: “My recent exhibitions have all been realised in close collaboration with the artists, often through an individual relationship, and sometimes in a broader context. La Biennale di Venezia is a new kind of challenge but the principle remains the same: the artist’s vision must remain at the centre of everything”.
Venice, 17th May 2008

For further information
La Biennale di Venezia Visual Arts Press Office
Tel. 041 – 5218846/849
Fax 041 – 5218812
infoartivisive@labiennale.org;
www.labiennale.org

Fuente: La Biennale di Venezia

Register:
http://www.uia2008torino.org/U8T/Engine/RAServePG.php/P/26761U8T1009
More information:
info@uia2008torino.org
Turin 2008 web site
http://www.uia2008torino.org

Fuente: UIA Congress TORINO 2008

Yasar University-Izmir, Turkey in 9th-11th October 2008, under the name of “Information: Diversity and Awareness’”

UNAK General Meetings, performed in different universities in Turkey every year since 2001. This year it will be held in Yasar University-Izmir, Turkey in 9th-11th October 2008, under the name of ‘‘Information: Diversity and Awareness”.

We are very proud to be attendance of this conference, and very glad that you come to participate in this conference.

Important Date
· 01.07.2008 Deadline for sending Presentation Title and Summary
· 15.09.2008 Deadline for Paper Submission
· 06.10.2008 Deadline for Participants

http://www.unak.org.tr/unak08eng/ (for all detail)

Fuente: Unak ’08, Turkey