With the European Year of Skills 2023, the European Union aims to promote a mindset of reskilling and upskilling, in order to boost competitiveness of European companies, and help them to realise the full potential of the digital and green transitions. Skills and competences of building professionals lie at the heart of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) – a beautiful, sustainable and inclusive built environment can only be the result of the work of skilled professionals, in the construction sector, but also throughout administrative and policy decision-making processes. A generation of professionals that adheres to NEB values and is capable of achieving its ambitions needs to be trained.
In this context, the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) are co-organising a one day public conference to discuss what are the skills, methods and pedagogies needed for a flourishing and ecologically beneficial architectural practice that addresses the challenges of the turbulent twenty first century. This event programme discusses developments, teaching practices and models of innovation within architecture that include, but also go beyond the private-public axis, to engage community-based initiatives, microeconomies and modes of empowerment that express the emerging new values of this era. You will examine pilots, practices and cultural demonstrators that show how architectural research and education can activate innovation ecosystems in ways that address the significant challenges of climate change, while drawing on the principles of the NEB.
ACE-EAAE aims to interrogate the values underpinning how architecture is researched, practiced, and taught throughout Europe, so that you can maintain a competitive edge, while upholding collective cultural identities. In this way, ACE-EAAE aims to meet the needs of their communities beyond functionality, encourage dialogue across cultural divides, and work in harmony with nature, the environment, and the planet.
On the occasion of the conference, the shortlisted nominees for the 2023 edition of the Young Talent Architecture Awards (YTAA) will be announced. The YTAA is a category of the the EUmies Awards / EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture. It highlights outstanding diploma projects of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture students. The conference, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the EU, will bring together professionals, architecture students, educators and researchers, as well as delegates from the ACE and EAAE.
Participation is free of charge upon registration.
French-English interpretation will be provided.
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