Beatriz Colomina: "Radical Pedagogies" (Dec 11)
For the KTH School of Architecture's ongoing series on Learning Environments, we have invited Beatriz Colomina to give a lecture on the research and exhibition project "Radical Pedagogies". The project is subtitled "Architectural education in a time of disciplinary instability" and explores pedagogical shifts in architecture at the second half of the twentieth century. The event is free and open to the public, but as space is limited, please sign up if you plan to attend. Welcome!
Tid: To 2014-12-11 kl 18.00
Plats: Triangeln (entrance foyer), KTH School of Architecture, Östermalmsgatan 26
Radical Pedagogies: ACTION-REACTION-INTERACTION explores a series of pedagogical experiments that played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the twentieth century. As a challenge to normative thinking, they questioned, redifined, and reshaped the postwar field of architecture. They are radical in the literal meaning stemming from the Latin radix (root), as they question the basis of architecture. These new modes of teaching shook foundations and disturbed assumptions, rather than reinforcing and disseminating them. They operated as small endeavors, sometimes on the fringes of institutions, but had long-lasting impact. Much of architectural teaching today still rests on the paradigms they introduced.
Radical Pedagogies – Architectural education in a time of disciplinary instability is an ongoing multiyear collaborative research project by Beatriz Colomina with the PhD students at Princeton University School of Architecture . It has so far involved three years of seminars, interviews, archival research, guest lectures, and contributions by protagonists and scholars around the world. Architecture history and theory is taught and practiced as an experiment in itself, exploring the potential of collaboration – in what is often taught to be an individual field – and addressing the challenges and opportunities of new media.
BEATRIZ COLOMINA
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media. Ms. Colomina has taught in the Princeton University School of Architecture since 1988, and is the Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University, a graduate program that promotes the interdisciplinary study of forms of culture that came to prominence during the last century and looks at the interplay between culture and technology.
The student-run Thursday's bar will be open for the occasion
The event is free and open to the public, but as space is limited, please sign up for the facebook event if you plan to attend. We cannot guarantee a seat, but if the event fills up, we will either move the lecture to another venue or contact you to ask you to show up early. (If you are not able to sign up via the link, please send an email to event[at]arch.kth.se.) Welcome!