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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DESIGN AND STRATEGIES OF TOURIST TERRITORIES
The unique
European Program that integrates strategic business management and innovative
design of tourist destinations. From economics, geography, marketing, tourism,
architecture, urban planning and design, the program trains a new profile of
a consultant, prepared to assess the competitiveness of a destination and implement
it, to find strategic locations for new products and services, and to produce
projects for future developments, consistent with resources availability, economically
successful in the short and Long run, responsible with local communities and
the environment, and creatively designed.
1st programme
From March to July 2012
Schedule: Thursday and Fridays, from 5 to 9.15 p.m., and each 15 days from 10
a.m. to 2.15 p.m and from 5 to 9.15 p.m.
ECTS Credits: 30
Price: € 4.100
Language: English [some classes will be taught in Spanish]
Directors: Silvia Banchini, Manuel Gausa and Luis Falcon Martinez de Maranon
ELISAVA
Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
La Rambla 30-32
08002 Barcelona
T +(34) 93 317 47 15
F +(34) 93 317 83 53
elisava@elisava.net
www.elisava.net
www.intelligentcoast.com
MASTER OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND MASTER OF URBANISM AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
Master of Human Settlements
www.asro.kuleuven.be/mahs
Interested in human settlements accross the globe? This two semester post-graduate
programme focusses on urbanism and planning in developed and developing countries
world wide.
for more information contact maura.slootmaekers@asro.kuleuven.be
applications for 2012 - 2013 will open as of November 2011
Master
of Urbanism and Strategic Planning
www.asro.kuleuven.be/mausp
Ever wondered
why cities look like they do? This four semester post-graduate programme pursues
a critical understanding of the contemporary conditions of urban regions and
cities accross the globe.
for more information contact maura.slootmaekers@asro.kuleuven.be
applications for 2012-2013 will open as of November 2011
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Departement of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning
Oude Molen 00.21 Kasteelpark Arenberg 51, B – 3001 Heverlee, Belgium,
tel +32 (0)16 32 13 91, fax +32 (0)16 32 19 81
www.asro.kuleuven.be
SANDBERG'S MASTER INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Sandberg Institute's coming activities:
Wednesday 25th of January: public final presentation Housing
by 1st year students of the Master
Interior Architecture from 11-14 o'clock @ Sandberg
Institute, 5th floor.
Tuesday 31st of January: public final presentation Exhibition
by 2nd year students of the Master
Interior Architecture from 17-20 o'clock @ Sandberg
Institute, 5th floor.
Thursday 2nd of February: public final presentation Object by
2nd year students of the Master
Interior Architecture from 11-13 o'clock @ Sandberg
Institute, 5th floor.
Thursday 2nd of February: public final presentation Education
by 1st year students of the Master
Interior Architecture from 17-20 o'clock @ Sandberg
Institute, 5th floor.
Thursday 16th of February: Open day from 14-20 o'clock @ Sandberg
Institute. From 14 - 18 you can Speed Date by Skype with the current
students who are in Azia @ 5th floor!
Ongoing
Student Research 2011/2012
Interior Architecture
“If you ask me what this course is about, I’ll say: it’s about
what matters. Interior architecture is undergoing massive changes. Acute social
issues, shifting notions of private space, up scaling and recycling: interior
architects need to engage with the world at large. Right now, we are working
on a future Alzheimer residential plan for the year 2038 – the expected
peak of the disease in developed countries. We are imagining ways to improve
the living conditions of patients, with a focus on haptic architecture.”
Henri Snel, Course Director, Interior Architecture
What Is Running Now?
Housing
New Benidorm’, a research on living with joined elderly and youth homes
in the heart of Rotterdam in in cooperation with the TU Delft.
Laura Alvares, Tutor
Education
Educational buildings tend to get bigger and are moving to the fringes of the
city. The campus without boundaries proposes to cluster colleges, housing, facilities,
libraries and social life into a collection of smaller buildings and public
spaces. If learning is sharing information the campus wants to make this sharing
spatial, creating space to interact. The project wants to answer two questions:
How can the new campus create a better educational environment and can the new
campus contributes to the city and vice versa.
John Bosch, Tutor
Object
A research project with circus ‘Elleboog’ in Amsterdam.
Victor Leurs, Mitch Sommer and Henri Snel, Tutors
Exhibition
The aim of the design assignment for an exhibition space is to provide insights
into various exhibition concepts and typologies, as well as into the requirements
and regulations relating to the field of exhibiting and exhibitions, so that
these insights can be translated into a design for an exhibition space.
Paul Toornend, Tutor
For further information about student applications contact Henri Snel:
henrisnel@sandberg.nl
www.sandberg.nl/interior
www.twitter.com/masterinterior
EXCEPT: INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH, CONSULTING & DESIGN
Except is
a decentralized, cell structured organization, working on four continents, with
about 50 scientists, engineers, designers, planners, ecologists, programmers,
and managers, amongst others. Except was founded in 1999 as a design and research
firm that merges environmental theories with research and design. Since then,
Except has developed itself as a full service organization in innovation and
sustainability strategy. During its first decade of operations, Except has developed
internationally recognized projects such as prioneering assessment tools, algae
farms, vertical agriculture, new CSR strategies for business, indicator development
and software, the world's largest ecological roof park, and many more. At the
end of the 90s Except developed the vision of building the foundation for a
sustainable future. We designed a new company model built specifically to suit
this task. In the first decade of the new millenium we developed new knowledge
and increased the effectiveness of our approach. Since 2005, Except works with
its global network of partners. In 2008, Except's headquarters moved to Rotterdam.
In 2010, Except's USA office opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
Except Netherlands
the Rotterdam Collective
Stadhuisplein 15
3012 AR Rotterdam
rotterdam@except.nl
www.except.nl
Except USA
The Bourse
839 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06511
newhaven@except.nl
MASTER
CLASS FUKUOKA 2012
The
Master Class Fukuoka is now open for 'early bird' application
Saline Verhoeven
(Bureau B+B urbanism and landscape architecture, Amsterdam) and Andrew David
Fassam (URA, Singapore) will supervise Stadslab's forthcoming spring
Master Class in Fukuoka, Japan, April 12-21, 2012. The Master Class
on Placemaking is part of a three year program focusing on strategic urban transformations.
Fukuoka
is the largest city on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. It is a modern
metropolis with good international air and sea connections. Cosmopolitan Fukuoka
boasts of an amazing collection of architectural masterpieces, by international
top architects such as Aldo Rossi, Toyo Ito, Emilio Ambasz, Rem Koolhaas, Steven
Holl, Kisho Kurokawa, Cristian de Portzamparc, Michael Graves and many others.
Two larger
themes and sites will be addressed during the Master Class:
Theme
I Downtown Public space design, place-making, connectivity and accessibility
Theme
II Waterfronts Urban transformations, re-programming dockyards and other
port areas, creating incubator districts
Large discounts
for
early bird applications from December 6th 2011 until January 15th 2012.
How to apply:
To start the enrolment procedure please fill out the Enrollment
Form and sent it together with your resume and a portfolio of your work
to:
STADSLAB.
EUROPEAN URBAN DESIGN LABORATORY
Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism
P.O.
Box 90907
5000 GJ Tilburg
Netherlands
info@stadslab.eu
www.stadslab.eu
EUROPEAN POSTGRADUATE MASTERS IN URBANISM
Strategies and Design for Cities and Territories
One program - four universities: UPC Barcelona, TU Delft, KU Leuven, IUAV Venezia
territories of dispersion; mobility and network cities; post industrial
landscapes; cultural landscapes; delta urbanism
Han Meyer (delta urbanism); Vincent Nadin (spatial planning); Dirk Sijmons (environmental
design); Joaquín Sabaté Bel (urbanism and territory); Antonio
Font (regional planning and design); Miguel Corominas Ayala (the urban project);
Bruno de Meulder (the urban project); Kelly Shannon (landscape urbanism); Marcel
Smets (design and infrastructure); Frank Moulaert (spatial planning); Franco
Mancuso (cultural landscape); Paola Viganò (the porous city); Bernardo
Secchi (urban landscapes of the 21st century)
www.emurbanism.eu
LIMITED LANGUAGE
Website, book and research in architecture, design and sound.
Limited Language is a brand which uses the web as a platform for generating
writing about visual communication. the idea of the brand in this context is
a deliberate conceit - to explore how words, like images, are commodities. Cutting,
pasting and recycling are all properties of contemporary image culture and are
present in the way we generate ideas. thoughts and conversations are cut and
pasted from one context to the next, taking on a new significance in each. limited
language aims to capture this as a working process for new writing. Like an
image bank of stock photography, anyone can be part of limited language by responding
to trigger blogs. once posted, we encourage people to recycle your comments
in their own research, as we may collage them in to our own writing, with the
aim to publish the resulting articles (any post eventually used will be credited
to you).
www.limitedlanguage.org
EVOLO 2012 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION
The Future Of The Skyscraper
Register at www.evolo.us
June 27, 2011 - January 17, 2012
eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances,
sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. Their objective
is to promote and discuss the most avant-garde ideas generated in schools and
professional studios around the world. It is a medium to explore the reality
and future of design with up-to-date news, events, and projects.
THE BROOKLYN RAIL
Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture
The Brooklyn Rail is a political, artistic and literary magazine based in Greenpoint,
Brooklyn. Coverage includes political and literary essays, art criticism, interviews,
original fiction and poetry, and reviews. Started as a broadsheet in 1998, the
Rail became a full publication in 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong
Bui and editor Theodore Hamm. Now a monthly journal, it covers arts and politics
across New York City and around the world. Articles have included interviews
with Clare Short and James Longley on the Iraq war, Robert Scheer on presidents
Richard Nixon through George W. Bush, and Wayne Barrett on Rudy Giuliani. Interviews
on the arts have featured Michael Brenson, John Reed, David Levi-Strauss, Dore
Ashton, Albert Maysles, Leo Steinberg, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Serra and Brice
Marden. The
Rail commissioned a drawing by William Powhida called How the New Museum Committed
Suicide with Banality for the cover of the November 2009 issue. The drawing
featured caricatures of individuals involved in the controversial Skin Fruit
exhibition at the New Museum, including Jeff Koons.
www.brooklynrail.org