20 maj 2010

Hej! Aktuellt på skolan: Symposiet Contemporary Practice – Beyond the Crisis pågår, arrangerat av Architectural Technologies Research vid Arkitekturskolan. För mer information, se nedan. Hälsningar Gertrud Olsson

SYMPOSIUM
CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE – BEYOND THE CRISIS. Symposium 19-20 May, Auditorium F2, Lindstedtsvägen 28, KTH, Stockholm. Contemporary Practice. Beyond the Crisis invites designers, clients, developers, and educators to discuss interdisciplinary challenges affecting the built environment. Regional and international speakers with multi-disciplinary backgrounds will initiate discussions about: political vision and the built environment (Leadership); specialisation, scale and region (Construction); process, fabrication, education (Design). The initiative supports the Research Cluster Design and Technology for a Sustainable Built Environment launched by the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, in January 2010. The symposium is organised by Architectural Technologies Research at the School of Architecture, KTH through Tim Anstey, Hanif Kara, Lina Martinsson and Erik Törnkvist. The event is organised in association with the cross-department Forum for Industrial Building Practices (KTH FIND) and in collaboration with Stockholms Arkitektförening. -- Tickets: 350 sek www.ticnet.se, tel. 077-170 70 70. All information for the symposium is found on the website. Telephone enquiries should be addressed to Agneta Lundberg, School of Architecture, KTH-A, +46 8 790 8542.

SEMINARS/SEMINARIER
COMMUNICATING ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH Seminar for phd students, supervisors and other researchers at Chalmers Arkitektur, Göteborg 2 June 10-17: communicating architecture research is arranged by arkitekturakademin.se -- as the second in a series of seminars about thematic directions and programme structures for collaborative research strategies, and the forming of a national research school, that will link architectural research to society and to disciplinary education in the 21st century. -- seminar theme: the communication of architecture research runs in many streams: amongst peers and collaborators, towards a broader and non-specialist academic field, through mass media and public events, and in relation to firms, industry and planning authorities. The ability to mediate and contextualise architecture research is a many faceted matter, the subject of architecture being itself transdisciplinary and eclectic by constitution. -- Through this one day seminar we would like gain a picture of ongoing phd research at the schools of architecture in Sweden, at the same time as providing an opportunity for phd students to make a condensed and clear cut presentation of their works. -- arkitekturakademin.se: Swedish architecture research network – established between the architecture schools of Chalmers Göteborg, KTH Stockholm, LTH Lund, and Umeå Universitet, and supported by FORMAS.
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Föreläsning om genus och teknik, den 2 juni, Karin Ehrnberger, doktorand i design på KTH Maskinkonstruktion, talar om genus och design – hur vi formar våra produkter och hur de formar oss. Se inbjudan på:
http://www.intra.kth.se/polopoly_fs/1.30866!genus%20och%20design%202%20juni.pdf
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PUBLICERA ELLER FÖRSVINNA? Panelsamtal om genushistorikers publiceringsvägar i den nya vetenskapliga offentligheten
Tid: Torsdagen 3 juni: 14.30-17.00, därefter mingel med vin och tilltugg till självkostnadspris
Plats: Institutet för Framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 (bredvid Centralbadet), T-bana: Hötorget
Trots att det årligen publiceras en stor mängd genushistoriska avhandlingar råder det samtidigt en viss tystnad kring svensk genushistoria. Denna paradox är utgångspunkten för ett seminarium som vänder sig till alla självidentifierade genushistoriker i Stockholmsregionen! Seminariet vill uppmärksamma två tendenser i samtiden som berör den svenska genushistoriska forskningen och genushistorikers publiceringsmönster. Den ena är det nya meriteringsparadigmet som uppmuntrar till publiceringar i artikelform i internationella peer-reviewgranskade tidskrifter. Den andra har att göra med den genushistoriska forskningens ställning inom å ena sidan ”moderämnena” (historia, idéhistoria, ekonomisk historia etc.) och å andra sidan det genusvetenskapliga fältet. Tidigare har det historiska perspektivet haft en given plats inom de ämnesövergripande kvinno- och genusvetenskapliga forskardiskussionerna, men denna plats är inte självklar när genusvetenskap utmejslas som en egen disciplin. -- Seminariet inleds med ett panelsamtal mellan sex genusforskare som också är redaktörer eller redaktionsmedlemmar för historiska eller genusvetenskapliga tidskrifter i Sverige och Norden: Stefan Amirell, redaktör Historisk tidskrift; Ulrika Holgersson, redaktör Scandia; Monika Edgren, avgående redaktör Tidskrift för genusvetenskap; Anna Lundberg, tillträdande redaktör Tidskrift för genusvetenskap; Silke Neunsinger, redaktör Arbetarhistoria; och Maria Sjöberg, redaktionsmedlem i Scandinavian Journal of history. -- Anmäl dig till Helena Bergman (helena.bergman@framtidsstudier.se) senast den 28 maj. Arrangörer: Nätverket för Stockholmsbaserade genushistoriker och föreningen SKOGH (Sveriges kvinno- och genushistoriker), med finansiellt stöd av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

COURSE
Learning Lab is offering the RESEARCH SUPERVISION COURSE LH207V in both Swedish and English in the fall 2010: 1. The Swedish version starts September 2, 2010, and 2. The English one October 27, 2010. We still have some places left in both versions. The Research Supervision course is an absolute requirement for a Docent title. It also fits well in the pedagogical portfolio (15 credits) required at KTH for all academic teacher positions and for promotion to Lector and professor. You can sign up for the course at the following link: http://www.webforum.com/form/learninglab/form.asp?sid=539274552

KONFERENSER/CONFERENCES
CREATE – Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment – conference Gjøvik 2010: COLOUR IN ART, SCIENCE, DESIGN, CONSERVATION, RESEARCH, PRINTMAKING, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, TEXTILES, Gjovik University College, Gjovik, Norway, 8th-11th June 2010. The conference is open to all working in colour: postgraduate students from arts and sciences, artists, industry & the commercial sector and researchers. The conference will take place on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday will be a cultural day with a guided trip to Oslo. The conference will consist of oral and poster presentations by the conference attendees. Delegates will also hear key lectures from leading industry professionals, artists, scientists and technologists. -- Contact: Carinna Parraman, <Carinna.Parraman@uwe.ac.uk>, <www.create.uwe.ac.uk>
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PROTOTYPE–CRAFT IN THE FUTURE TENSE: will be co-convened by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and will explore the radical and multiple ways that creative people are experimenting with ideas. The symposium looks to excite the mind and nurture unusual conversations by presenting a diverse range of perspectives concerned with innovation and ingenuity. Prototyping is done in many industries - from cars to ceramics, medical equipment to publishing, architects to chefs - but the process, development and understanding for each is different. What can one discipline teach another about prototyping? What place does prototyping hold for scientists, artists, politicians, athletes or business managers? How can prototyping lead these and other disciplines to imagine and re-imagine the future? This event aims to reduce barriers by generating trans-disciplinary conversations, thus setting the scene for the forging of new partnerships and fresh understandings for contemporary and future craftspeople. We hope to bring together representatives from academia, public and corporate sectors to discuss the history, theory and practice of prototyping, thereby creating a sustainable network of like-minded individuals and organisations that will continue to develop prototyping as a tool for change. -- We hope you will be able to join us for Prototype – Craft in the Future Tense, and Crafts Festival Scotland, in Dundee 10-11 June 2010. Online registration is now open, and more information may be found on the event website, http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping.
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World in Denmark 2010: AS FOUND, Copenhagen, 17th and 18th June 2010. In landscape architecture and urbanism, architecture and heritage studies the concept site is gaining increasing attention. What is found on the site, the uses and the interpretations of it have become determining aspects for the theoretical investigation as well as the design, preservation and transformation of the post-industrial urban landscape. The notion As Found contains a verb and hence opens up the possibility for addressing the situatedness of reading and operating within sites. As a design approach As Found stresses the qualities of what is already there as a positive starting point for interaction between past, present and future states, between the act of preserving and that of transforming. AS FOUND is the optic through which the conference in Copenhagen, 17th and 18th June 2010 will revisit and reflect upon the everyday urban landscape. -- For more information: please visit <www.windk2010.dk>
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9th Spanish Congress of Color to be held in Alicante, Spain, 29 June-2 July 2010. Theme: INTER- AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COLOUR. Please, download the details of the Congress: <http://www.sri.ua.es/congresos/color10/> Organization: GVC-UA (Color & Vision Group, University of Alicante, Spain) & Spanish Committee of Color (Spanish Society of Optics)
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Third International Symposium on ARCHITECTURE OF 21ST CENTURY: IN SEARCH OF NEW PARADIGMS, which will be held August 3, 2010 within the setting of INTERSYMP 2010. 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, August 2-6, 2010 at Markgraf-Ludwig Gymnasium, Hardstrasse 2, Baden-Baden, Germany. More information: <greg_andonian@carleton.ca>
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Second International Workshop on BROADENING THE SCOPE OF ARCHITECTURAL CREATIVITY – BSAC 2010, which will be held August 5, 2010 within the setting of ISSEI Section 5: Language, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Religion as part of 12th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, August 2-6, 2010 at Cankala University, Ankara, Turkey. Abstracts may be submitted by 30 Mars to <greg_andonian@carleton.ca>

WORKSHOP
Workshop i skrivande för avancerade doktorander och unga forskare på ABE-skolan. Tycker du om att skriva men känner att det ibland kan vara motigt att producera text? Är du intresserad av att utveckla ditt skrivande? Ditt akademiska författande kan förbättras om din relation till text i allmänhet utvecklas. ABE-skolan anordnar en workshop i skrivande för unga forskare och doktorander som har kommit en bit på väg i sitt avhandlingsarbete. Det här är en workshop för dig som är verksam i ett ämne där språket är ett centralt verktyg och gärna vill utveckla din förmåga att hantera detta verktyg. Syftet är att få en klarare syn på texter och därigenom en mer reflekterad relation till skrivandet. -- Workshopen äger rum vid två koncentrerade tillfällen i början av höstterminen. I övningarna kommer du framför allt att utgå från det material som du arbetar och är förtrogen med. Arbetet med att analysera, kritisera och skriva om leds av redaktören till tidskriften Technology & Culture. Sista ansökningsdag är 31 maj. Ansvarig för planering och genomförande är Nina Wormbs och Jesper Meijling på Avd. för teknik- och vetenskapshistoria. Ansökan ska skickas till nina@kth.se, som också svarar på eventuella frågor. Ange i ett följebrev varför du vill delta i workshopen och vad du tror dig få ut av den. Uppgifter om ämne och institutionstillhörighet ska också anges. Workshopen finansieras med skolgemensamma medel.

STIPENDIUM
THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION announces FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) and the American Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) are pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the American-Scandinavian Foundation | Annika Teig | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Fellowship (ASF AT SOM Fellowship), which honors the memory of Annika Teig, a former Associate at SOM. SOM and ASF will be accepting applications from post-graduates and mid-career architects holding Scandinavian citizenship seeking experience in interior design at a leading architecture firm in New York City. Fellowship awards are granted to those individuals from Scandinavia who have or are currently studying architecture, and have submitted a portfolio found promising by a review panel selected by SOM. Fellows are awarded a three-month, paid internship at SOM’s New York office on Wall Street. Working with established project teams at SOM, Fellows will be involved in the day-to-day planning and design of SOM's numerous projects. Housing may be arranged with the International House in upper Manhattan if necessary. -- Please submit the below items via email to teig.fellowship@som.com by May 28, 2010: Curriculum Vitae; Statement of Purpose (no more than two pages describing why you are interested in this award); and Digital copies of work in PDF format. For more information regarding the ASF AT SOM Fellowship, please visit www.amscan.org/asf_at_som.html

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Gertrud Olsson, rum E303
KTH Arkitekturskolan
100 44 Stockholm
gertrud.olsson@arch.kth.se
08-790 85 44