Fieldstations e.V. | DAZ | TUBerlin
Workshop 07.07.2021
Lidia Gasperoni

Anthropocene Teaching Practices in Architecture

The Anthropocene has in recent years become a field of reflexive intersection in which human activity and practices are being renegotiated. Architecture is one of the material fields that has a radical impact on the environment. This should lead the discipline to a radical rethinking not only with respect to its forms and materials but to the way it defines its pedagogical tasks. The workshop is an invitation to reflect together on the pedagogical capacities of architecture in practices of reflexivity, design, and building.

The event is curated by Lidia Gasperoni. The workshop, in cooperation with Fieldstations and the Chair of Architectural Theory (TU Berlin), is part of the DAZ series “We need to talk!”.

Registration is required by July 5 to Lidia Gasperoni: lidia.gasperoni@tu-berlin.de

9.30 Introduction

10.15-11.45 Site-writing as Transitional Pedagogy
Jane Rendell and Polly Gould (UCL): Site-Writing as Transformational Pedagogy
Peg Rawes: Life Stories (UCL) – ‘Living with’ the Climate Emergency
Jennifer Raum (TH Nürnberg): Narratives. The Utopian as Design Method

12.00-13.30 Environmental Models and Forms
Susanne Hauser (UdK Berlin): Environmental Models
Philippa Nyakato Tumubweinee and Edward Denison (UCL and University of Cape Town): Decentering Heritage in the Anthropocene
Carlo Ravagnati and Riccardo Palma (Politecnico Torino): What Teaching in the Architectocene?

14.15-15.45 Territorial Matters and Interfaces
John Palmesino (AA London): Territorial Agency
John Cook, Ben Pollock & Laura Nica (Design Studio 18 – University of Westminster): Air, Architecture + Other Climates
Andrea Rossi (University Kassel): Through the Interface

15.45-16.30 Concluding Discussion: Future Trajectories