7 april 2011

Hej! För information, se nedan. Hälsningar Gertrud Olsson

SLUTSEMINARIUM
Fredagen den 10 juni 2011 är det slutseminarium. Jonas E Andersson presenterar sin doktorsavhandling, preliminär titel är AGEING AS A CONCEPT IN A DESIGN PROCESS, OM SWEDISH ARCHITECTURE FOR ASSISTED LIVING. Extern opponent är PhD Ebbe Harder, Associate Professor, vid Aalborg University, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology.
Dag: Fredagen 10 juni 2011

Tid: 09.00–12.00

Plats: Arkitekturskolan

Lokal: A2 (entréplan, Östermalmsgatan 26)

Ämne: Slutseminarium i forskarutbildningen

Doktorand: Jonas E Anderson, KTH/A

Opponent: Henrik Harder, docent vid Ålborg Universitet

Handledare: Magnus Rönn, KTH/A, och Eva Henriksen, FoUnu.

Intern granskare: Ulf Keijer och Henrik Harder

Arranged by: Magnus Rönn/arc•plan

Forskargruppen Arc•plan innehåller fyra seniorforskare och sju doktorander. Forskningsstrategin är att genom FoU-projekt (seniorprojekt och avhandlingsprojekt) bygga upp en långsiktigt användbar kunskapsbas inom arkitekturämnet, som är ett tvärvetenskapligt kunskapsfält. Ett gemensamt syfte för forskargruppen är att bidra till utvecklingen av kunskap som kan förbättra arkitekturens praxis. Vi utvecklar teorier och metoder som kan fungera som rådgivare för professionella praktiker inom arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad. Kunskapsutvecklingen omfattar följande teman: planerings- och projekteringsprocesser; bedömning och utvärdering av arkitektur; och kunskapsanvändning i plan- och byggprojekt. Forskningsteman behandlas i en vetenskaplig ram som inbegriper design, stadsbyggnad och samhällsplanering. Metodologiskt kombineras en humanistisk tradition med en samhällsvetenskaplig tradition. Resultatet är en bred vetenskaplig bas som ger stadga åt forskargruppens kunskapsutveckling och borgar för forskningens relevans inom angivna tema.

SYMPOSIER
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM that will be held in Santiago de Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile between Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th of January 2012. Regarding SSS8: The opening session will be on Tuesday 3rd January 2012, the workshops and sessions between Wednesday 4th and Friday 6th. Further information on the event are announced and up-dated on the web-site for the symposium, see: http://www.sss8.cl. The aims of the SSS_8 are: 1. To bring together members of the space syntax community to share recent work and theoretical and methodological issues; 2. To exchange ideas and research with neighbouring disciplines in the pursuit of common research goals; 3. To invite practitioners in the fields of urban design and architecture and apace related disciplines. -- CALL FOR PAPERS The symposium will especially welcome abstracts and papers on the following themes: 1. Spatial Analysis and Architectural Theory; 2. Urban Space and Social, Economic and Cultural Phenomena; 3. Building Morphology and Usage; 4. Historical Evolution of the Built Form; 5. Spatial Cognition; 6. Modelling and Methodological Development; 7. Software Development; and 8. Others (please specify). Submission of Abstracts: March 1th to April 20th
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The annual Symposium of the Nordic Association of Architectural Research presents key note speakers Jonathan Hill, Roemer van Toorn an Fredrik Nilsson among others who reflect upon research in architecture and design. With the symposium the Nordic Association of Architectural Research, the Danish Doctoral Schools of Architecture & Design (DKAD) and the Aarhus School of Architecture will discuss how research and the PhD programme have evolved in recent years to become an integral part of the profile of the Nordic schools of architecture and design. -- When architects and designers ... Historically, there is a clear discontinuity between the fundamental architectural and design education and the subsequent research education. Whereas basic education appears to be practice-oriented, workshop based and uses drawing and models as the primary forms of communication, the dominant model for the PhD program is a text-based work in accordance with university standards. Considered in the context of those standards, it has thus been a controversial type of research that has represented the academic culture of the schools. The controversy has not completely disappeared today, but with the diffusion of an increasingly differentiated and complex understanding of architecture and design concept, the methods and models for research in this area has become more diverse in recent years. This is reflected both in the academic work and the rapidly growing interest in design-based research methods. In light of this development, the aim of the conference is to clarify the status, potentials and challenges for the design and architecture-based doctoral education. We hope that the conference will bring together a wide range of researchers, not least research students, who - implicitly or explicitly - are working on these issues and at the same time will provide an overview of the current state of research education at the Nordic schools of architecture and design. It is also our hope that the conference will be followed by a Nordic network for the continued sharing of experience and development of discussions related to the theme. -- The conference takes place 4–6 May 2011 in Aarhus Denmark at the Aarhus School of Architecture. The symposium language is Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and English.
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The school of Planning and Media at Blekinge Institute of Technology is pleased to announce a symposium for PhD scholars and others entitled CHALLENGES OF SPACE AND PLACE, taking place June 9th and 10th, 2011. Abstracts are now being accepted for submission in three tracks: the /Intangible City/, the Public City/ and the /Political City/. [Detailed descriptions on the web page] General questions can be sent to <mailto:matthew.rouser@bth.se>. More information: <http://www.bth.se/dsn/spaceandplace>
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international symposium: PRECISIONS on le corbusier as artist, as builder, and as planner, the royal danish academy of fine arts, school of architecture, copenhagen, september 15-17 2011. More information: <www.karch.dk/precisions_onlecorbusier> and on the attached pdf.

SEMINARIUM
VÄXANDE BEFOLKNING, VÄXANDE STÄDER – ÖPPET SEMINARIUM OM SOCIALEKOLOGISK STADSDESIGN
Växande städer är en global utmaning. En ny syn på stadsutveckling behövs. Hur kan städerna växa utan att skada ekologin. Kan ekosystemet införlivas i stadsbyggandet för långsiktig hållbarhet?
Datum: onsdag 27 april
Tid: 13-16.30
Plats: Kulturhuset, Studion, plan 0 (fd Lava)
För information och anmälan, se medföljande pdf.

PhD COURSES
AD231V ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN RESEARCH I, 7,5 hp


PhD course: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 7,5 hp


The course aims at providing students with basic tools for developing critical methods for analysis of and reflection on architecture and design, aiming for the production of new and significant design knowledge. The course includes a series of lectures concerning the history of knowledge production in architecture and research methodology in particular relation to current developments in practice based resaerch in architecture and design. In parallel with the lectures students will work individually with developing an individual portfolio and initiate a research project. – Course teachers: Catharina Gabrielsson, Meike Schalk, Katja Grillner. Examiner: Katja Grillner, <grillner@kth.se> – April 7 th: Course introduction. Please find lectures and seminar schedule in the pdf.


PhD-kurs SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE 29 mars-oktober 2011. Kursens grundidé är att doktoranderna i en essay “shall present and discuss what sustainability science could be in his or her field of research.” I kursen ingår dessutom sex öppna föreläsningar/seminarier på olika delteman I kursen.
Gästföreläsare i kursen är: Sverker Sörlin (The strife for sustainability- Are there historical lessons to be learnt); Göran Finnveden (Life Cycle Thinking) från KTH,
Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, FOI (Sustainable Consumption – Possible or?);
Uno Svedin, Formas (Science + Sustainability Development = Sustainability Science?); Arne Jernelöv (Gender and Sustainability på basis av hans nyutkomna “Amazonia”); och Magdalena Svanström, Chalmers (Sustainable Development - The new engineer and her future role). Se bifogade kursPM inkl prel program. Application deadline 18 March.

LECTURES
CHISINAU: VISIONER OCH SAMTAL OM EN STAD I OMVANDLING

Färgfabriken gästar med New Urban Topologies
Torsdag 14 april kl 17.00

Rumänska kulturinstitutet 

På svenska och engelska. Fri entré!
Kortföreläsningar av Emil Druc, Moldaviens ambassadör, Vladimir Us, curator Oberliht, Chisinau, samt Joachim Granit och Thomas Lundh, Färgfabriken. Panelsamtal med representanter för Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Svenska institutet, Stockholms stadsbyggnadskontor och Regionplanekontoret.

Parker som hotas av flashiga nybyggen, nergångna modulförorter och en historisk stadskärna i akut behov av upprustning. Det handlar om utmaningar och möjligheter för Moldaviens huvudstad Chisinau som tillsammans med vitryska Minsk är först ut i Färgfabrikens satsning New Urban Topologies.

 I samarbete med det moldaviska konstcentret Oberliht skapade Färgfabriken en plattform för intensiva samtal kring Chisinaus framtid på plats i staden i oktober 2010. Bland deltagarna fanns lokala arkitekter, konstnärer och politiker samt representanter för Stockholms stadsbyggnadskontor, Regionplanekontoret och Kungliga Tekniska högskolan.

Nu har diskussionerna samlats i boken New Urban Topologies: The Chisinau and Minsk Experience. Här presenteras de medverkandes idéer om bland annat ekologiskt byggande, kreativ kollektivtrafik och torg för möten och konstnärliga uttryck. Essäer och projektbeskrivningar varvas med intervjuer där läsaren får möta såväl topptjänstemän som husockupanter. Läget i Chisinau jämförs med det i Stockholm och i Minsk. 

Tanken är att New Urban Topologies ska växa med fler människor, projekt, länder och städer, i Östeuropa och i Mellanöstern. Arkitektur och stadsplanering är fokus för satsningen som inriktar sig på social och ekologisk hållbarhet, identitet och demokratiska processer. Målet är nya visioner och strategier för våra framtida samhällen.

WORKSHOP
International workshop on participation in urban planning and design: 5-6 May 2011, Uppsala, Sweden. The Cemus Research Forum – CEFO – at CSD, Uppsala University and the Research School for Architecture and Planning of the Urban Landscape – APULA – at SLU, is pleased to invite researchers from different disciplines to share ideas and experiences from research in a two-day workshop around the topic of participation in urban planning and design. This initiative emerges from the need to critically discuss the role that participatory processes are currently having in the planning, design and management of our cities. The thematic focus of the workshop is PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEXT OF DIVERSITY, CONFLICT AND POWER. The need of involving different actors in planning and design processes has been significantly mainstreamed into today’s urban policies and is considered a key factor in the achievement of a sustainable urban development. However, the involvement of more actors to the planning and design processes of our cities means also greater challenges to the ways in which their multiple and many times conflicting voices are included in the decision making processes. Hence “diversity”, in terms of rationalities, discourses, perceptions, values and interests, and how to deal with such diversity in the presence of conflict and power relations can be considered as one of the most important questions of any planning and design process. Such situation can be easily seen in the different interpretations of how to reach a sustainable urban development and the varied views that people have to the environment (natural and built) and thus their relations to it. The International Workshop on Participatory Urban Planning and Design intends to create an arena in which these concerns can be discussed.





KONFERENSER/CONFERENCES 








Call for Abstracts: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, 4-6 July 2011, Barcelona (Spain). We invite you to submit your abstracts and participate in the 3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, EDULEARN11, that will be held in Barcelona (SPAIN), on the 4th, 5th and 6th of July, 2011.

It will be an international forum to present and share your experiences in the fields of New Technologies in Education, E-learning and methodologies applied to Education and Research. More information: http://www.iated.org/edulearn11/ Deadline submission: 31st March 2011.
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NorLit 2011: CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND POLITICS
Roskilde University, August 4, 2011 – August 6, 2011.
Deadline for abstract and panel submission is April 15, 2011. The Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit) organizes every two years an international scholarly conference. The aim of NorLit is to develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies. NorLit 2011 seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary scholarly research of literature. The aim of the conference is both to focus on ‘literature and politics’ in a historical perspective and to examine the variety of political and social dimensions which to a large extent conditions contemporary literature. There is no official conference language. It will be multi-lingual; some sessions will be in English, whereas others will be in Scandinavian languages, in French or German. The conference venue is Roskilde University, Denmark. More information: <www.norlit.org>

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FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Discussion on key themes will include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities, the difficult gap that exists between digital modeling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts. More information: <www.fabricate2011.org/>
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DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SPACE, 
The Disability Studies working group at Oslo University College is going to hold an interdisciplinary conference. Dates: April 28-29, 2011. Location: Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway. Host and sponsors: Oslo University College (through the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Urban Research program), The Research Council of Norway (through the Rehabilitation as Conflict project), and the Fritt Ord foundation. -- Background and themes: Disability, accessibility and the right to participate fully in all aspects of life are becoming increasingly prominent topics in a variety of disciplines. The conference aims to explore these topics from a variety of perspectives, bringing together researchers and professionals from the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and urban studies. The background for the conference is partly the expansion of interdisciplinary research on disability, including cultural, historical and interactional studies, and partly the increase in legislative initiatives, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A primary objective for the conference is to promote dialogue and research across both disciplinary and geographical boundaries. Plenary speakers include Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson of Emory University, Professor Susan Schweik of the University of California at Berkeley, and Professor Rob Imrie of King’s College, London. The interface between public space and disability needs to be more extensively explored in research that includes both empirical and theoretical studies. We encourage submissions from researchers in the humanities and the social sciences, law and the health sciences, as well as built environment engineering and urban planning. See also: http://www.hio.no/Enheter/Avdeling-for-helsefag-HF/Disability-Studies-Working-Group








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Call for Papers: 6th ENERGY FORUM on Solar Building Skins, 06-07 December 2011, Bressanone, Italy. The aim of the Conference is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach among architects, engineers, scientists, energy managers and manufacturers, to reduce energy consumption while improving the comfort and health of the building's occupants. Emphasis will be placed on the latest developments and innovations in integrated components for the building industry, in particular with regard to multifunctional building envelopes. Following are the topics which will be covered by this year’s conference: Multifunctional Building Skins - Intelligent and Adaptive Building Skins - Evolving Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Technologies and Projects - Enhanced Daylighting; Performance Criteria for Building Envelopes - Performance Metrics - Life Cycle Costs of Multifunctional Elements; and Holistic Concepts of Plus Energy Buildings - Market Strategies for Plus Energy and Solar Decathlon Houses - Solar Retrofitting. Who can apply: Researchers, scientists and professionals (including architects, engineers, energy managers, urban planners and industry experts) are invited to submit papers for presentation. Special consideration will be given to proposals from scientists, engineers and architects working in the field of renewable energy technologies. Please send your proposal in either English or Italian and include the following information: Paper title plus titles of 3 sub-chapters; Synopsis of 300 words (abstract) with 4 key words; Author’s and co-author’s name, job title and organization; Phone number, email address and postal adress; Brief Curriculum Vitae. Proposals should be sent to proposals@energy-forum.com by April 30th 2011. More information: <info@economic-forum.eu>


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ACROSS MEDIA CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND MEDIA CULTURE, conference in Trondheim, Norway, 5-7 May 2011. Conference website: <www.ntnu.no/acrossmedia>. For more information, please contact <across.media@hf.ntnu.no>

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INTERACTION OF COLOUR & LIGHT IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AIC 2011 Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association (AIC) 7–10 June 2011, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. Conference Theme: Much interest is devoted to the interaction of colour & light in today’s scientific and artistic research communities. New technologies, materials and media are now being deployed to enhance and stimulate our experience of daily life in real and virtual, permanent and ephemeral environments. The aim of the AIC 2011 conference is to explore how the interaction of colour & light plays a crucial role in the perception, conception and realization of spaces and platforms in different fields from both a theoretical and practical point of view. Using terms and concepts such as appearance, interaction, performance, event, and by privileging the materiality, mediality and the interactive dimension of colour & light, the conference presentations should demonstrate how productive the theme of the INTERACTION OF COLOUR & LIGHT IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES is. The fields of inquiry include: education, design, art, media, lighting, architecture, theatre, dance, as well as psychology, colour science and technology. The AIC 2011 Midterm Meeting aims to further discussion and nurture the latest findings in these various fields. More information: <www.aic2011.org>.

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THE ECONOMY CONFERENCE, will be held at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University on 6th–8th July 2011. The word ‘economy’ first described the management of a household. It comes from the Greek oikonomia /oikous (house) and nemein (manage) but its description of domestic frugality bears little relation to the contemporary ‘economy’ of governments and financial markets. Economies and capital are central to the dynamics of construction and urbanism, in ordering and disordering patterns of production and consumption. Given the collapse and mismanagement of the larger households of our societies, is it not vital to now evaluate the multiple meanings and potentials contained within this word? This international conference contains papers that investigate economy under the following themes:
 Dwelling and Economy; Economy and/of Means; Politics of Economy; Architecture and Capital; Defining Value. -- Further details can be found here: <www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/economy>

STIPENDIER

ÅNGPANNEFÖRENINGENS FORSKNINGSSTIFTELSE DELAR UT FORSKNINGSANSLAG OCH STIPENDIER: Stiftelsen beviljar anslag för forskning inom sina ändamålsområden. Ansökningar om FORSKNINGSANSLAG insänds i tre exemplar (mer omfattande bilagor dock bara i ett exemplar) senast den 31 mars 2011 med användande av särskild blankett för forskningsanslag. Stiftelsen beviljar stipendier för examensarbeten utomlands och till doktorander eller disputerande för presentation av forskningsresultat vid internationella konferenser. Ansökningar om STIPENDIER insänds i ett exemplar senast den 31 mars 2011 eller senast den 30 september 2011 med användande av särskild blankett för stipendieansökan. Information om Stiftelsen och dess verksamhet finns på Internet www.aforsk.se

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Stipendier ur HELGO ZETTERVALLS FOND delas ut för projekt inom arkitekturområdet. Sista ansökningsdag för att söka stipendier är den 31 maj 2011. STIPENDIER FÖR BYGGNADSKONSTENS UTVECKLING: Statens fastighetsverk disponerar del av avkastningen från Helgo Zettervalls fond "till främjande av den svenska byggnadskonstens utveckling". Därför delar Statens fastighetsverk ut stipendier ur Helgo Zettervalls fond för utbildnings-, utvecklings- och forskningsprojekt inom arkitekturens område. Vem kan få Helgostipendium? Studerande vid tekniska högskolor, doktorander, forskare, praktiskt verksamma, organisationer med flera kan söka stipendium. Ansökningar där resultatet är tänkt att spridas och bidra till kunskapsuppbyggnaden om den svenska byggnadskonstens utveckling prioriteras. Medel utgår inte för löne-, mat eller traktamentskostnader. Stiftelsen Helgo Zettervalls fond tillkom 1955, då Helgo Zettervalls son Folke och dennes maka Elin testamenterade sin kvarlåtenskap till Byggnadsstyrelsen för att bilda en fond till minne av Helgo Zettervall. 1993 övertog Statens fastighetsverk ansvaret för fonden. Ansökningshandlingar och mer information finns på <http://www.sfv.se/cms/sfv/aktuellt/priser_och_stipendier/helgostipendier.html

Gertrud Olsson, rum E303 

KTH Arkitekturskolan

100 44 Stockholm

gertrud.olsson@arch.kth.se

08-790 85 44