Is there a better place to drive change than in school?
We need to take responsibility to forward equality. Whether it is gender equality like the promotion of women in technical areas, equal pay for equal work or it is the equality of different groups to get access to education. The architectural discipline is able to set landmarks for social changes – the design of schools that create an open and diversity oriented atmosphere is therefore an important task. In this way the architectural design process and the subsequent realization of spaces and rooms for education needs our attention.
The aim of the platform is to discuss the responsibilities of the individual actors involved in the design process of schools and to identify ways how is it possible to overcome stereotypes in planning procedures. School design or architectural design today has to overcome the picture of the “star” architects, who dominate the scenery and focus on creating monuments for themselves.
But what do we need in the future to shape learning surroundings for our children? We need to understand their needs and requirements; we need to create rooms that are flexible, adaptable that are also sustainable on a long term.
If we create an open atmosphere where all actors involved in design and planning of schools can meet on eye level, we create an atmosphere where it is possible that school design will be developed in a cooperative approach and close to the real educational context.
We will do the best to find and show to you some practices on renovated school buildings.
Your comments on these cases are warmly welcome!
EVENTS International workshop for women in the wood construction sectorMerano, Italy, 29. - 30. June 2017
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Austria: FEMtech – Women in Research and Technology
Germany: Competence Centre for Technology, Diversity and Equal Opportunities
Belgium: Vrouw én Ingenieur - The Belgium network for "Women and Engineering"
Germany: gender archland - interdisciplinary platform at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape of the Leibniz Universität Hannover PUBLICATION 1 Architecture - A Woman’s Profession
Editor: Tanja Kullack
English
192 Pages with approx. 120 col. and b/w Images
Softcover
Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
Euro 28.00
Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
ISBN 978-3-86859-086-9
Also available in German:
ISBN: 978-3-86859-114-9
Date of publication: July 2011
Within architecture women are increasingly coming to the fore within the profession. To what extent will this shift in relations affect the profession as well as its teaching and therefore its structures, objectives and dialogic content? What is architecture when gender-specific strategies are overcome in the name of complex differentiation? What potential does the approaching paradigm shift hold? Well-known international female architects report their academic and professional experiences and their visions for the future. Pioneers of the scene, lecturers, and young upand-coming women have their say. They all hold controversial positions on relevant topics of debate; they demand that matters be rethought. Photo essays and designs illustrate their individual points of view. This is a reference book, a “tool” for the everyday application of young architects; inspiring, optimistic, and sometimes subversive.
http://www.jovis.de/index.php?lang=2&idcatside=2060
Author(s): Martinussen, Kent; Poul, Erik
Paperback
265 Pages including images
Barcelona: ACTAR; 1. Edition
English
ISBN-10: 8799368005
ISBN-13: 978-8799368006
Dimensions: 23,6 x 16,8 x 2 cm
Date of publication: July 2010
«As we know move further to the 21st century, it is becoming increasingly clear that architecture plays a crucial role in expressing and shaping society, globally as well as locally.» Introduction.
This publication further expands the concept of behaviour in a number of essays by Poul Erik Tøjner, Ralf Richardt Strøbech, Ida Klawonn, Martine Seedorf, Blaine Brownell, Henrik Oxvig, Marianne Krogh Jensen, Lars Qvortrup an Jan Gehl.
Author(s): Susanne Hofmann
Paperback
256 Pages with approx. 200 col. and 25 b/w Images, Softcover
Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
English
Berlin: Jovis Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86859-347-1
Also available in German: ISBN 978-3-86859-302-0
Date of publication: November 2014
In our society there is an increasing demand for participation in shaping our built environment. Without civic participation, few major building projects can go ahead. Furthermore, the knowledge of the users with regard to utilization and how spaces are experienced is in fact an important tool for architects during the design process.
This volume presents examples of successful participation, according to a method developed in the practice test, in which the focus is on communication about and by means of atmospheres. Realized projects of the architectural office «Baupiloten» are supplemented by a wide range of participatory options—presented as practical guidelines that can be used for one’s own individual purposes. Therefore the book invites direct application. Architecture Is Participation is not only targeted towards architects and architectural agents, but also towards communities, administrations, and especially the users of the city and architecture.
http://www.jovis.de/index.php?lang=2&idcatside=4867&lang=2
Veränderungspotenziale durch Geschlechterperspektiven
Editor: Katz, C., Heilmann, S., Thiem, A., Moths, K., Koch, L.M., Hofmeister, S.
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Copyright Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
ISBN 978-3-658-08106-5
Language: German
Date of Publication: November 2015
Neue, lebensweltlich kontextualisierte,problembezogene und thematisch querschnittorientierte Forschungs- und Qualifizierungsansätze im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit werden in diesem Sammelband sowohl auf konzeptioneller Ebene als auch anhand ausgewählter Handlungsfelder vorgestellt. Der Umgang mit globalen Umweltproblemen und -veränderungen im Zusammenhang mit gesellschaftlichen Gerechtigkeitsfragen bedarf neuer Problemzugänge und -bearbeitungen. Die genderorientierte Nachhaltigkeitsforschung positioniert sich als herrschaftskritische Ungleichheitsforschung und trägt zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung zu mehr Gleichberechtigung, Empowerment und Emanzipation bei.
Link: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658081058#aboutBook
