CONVIVIUM is a salon-style gathering intended to promote lively discourse
regarding problems and topics central to the discipline of architecture.
SESSION 2
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
7:30 – 9:30 pm
Miller Heller House
122 Eddy Street, Collegetown
This semester, CONVIVIUM examines the question HOW IS ARCHITECTURE
LOCATED? In so doing, we will explore the ways in which external
conditions circumscribe the discipline, and come to bear on its
epistemological, pedagogical, and practical modalities.
SESSION 2 will reconsider architecture’s pedagogical intentions in light
of recent economic turmoil, shifts internal to the discipline, and
outmoded institutional structures. We will begin by screening a TED talk
by Liz Coleman, president of Bennington College in VT, who radically
restructured the curriculum there and makes the case for a socially
engaged and activist liberal arts education. Following this, we will
engage in a discussion with Dagmar Richter and faculty on pedagogical
models and methodologies. Our conversation will unfold into a careful and
critical evaluation of learning today.
SUGGESTED READINGS
01 Studio Culture Policy (2009)
02 Redesign of Studio Culture: A Report of the AIAS Studio Culture Task
Force (2002)
03 Prosthetic Theory: The Disciplining of Architecture (Mark Wigley,
Assemblage, 1991)
