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20XX ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM

Architectural Education & COVID 19

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1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Architecture Hall Room: Gallery & Online
402 Stadium Dr
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: ARCH
The Architecture Program invites you to attend the Project 20XX Symposium on Architectural Education & COVID 19. This event is intended to coincide with the launch of the “Project 2020” and “Project 2021” website and will take place on November 11th from 1 – 3:30pm in the Arch Hall Gallery and Online ( https://unl.zoom.us/j/98449829506 link active the day of the symposium ). The format will consist of short presentations by architecture faculty Jeffrey L. Day, Zachary Tate-Porter, Lloyd “Bud” Shenefelt and Peter Olshavsky IV who will explore the COVID 19 pandemic from two positions within design discourse, studio projects, and pedagogy of design teaching. The event will conclude with a 30-minute plenary session by external moderator Antje Steinmuller, associate professor and chair of the Bachelor of Architecture Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA.

Within the mass of confusion and upheaval that COVID 19 has brought upon our lives one thing has become abundantly clear. Predictions are frail! When we look more deeply at this we should then ask, are we surprised? Or to reframe the issue has COVID 19 brought into question a design education based upon a predictive model? Does it question our assumptions that we are in control of the future in the way we think we are?

This theme will be explored under two categories of design education:
- Architectural educational and pedagogy
- Studio projects that explore strategies for pandemic design

Architectural Education & COVID 19 echoes the concept of the “Back Loop” (Anthropocene Back Loop Stephanie Wakefield) that argues for the importance of understanding unplanned events in relation to planned events. The Back Loop explores a front loop (planned events that follow a predictive model of industrial expansion, greater access to travel global trade and so on), then an unexpected event (a natural disaster, conflict, global pandemic) that is then followed by a “backloop” (a series adaptive and resilient responses to the unexpected event) that eventually leads to reorganization.
This symposium is a reflection on the divergent nature of design education under the constraints of COVID 19. It brings together a range of voices to explore ”adaptive” strategies within architectural discourse and reflects upon experiences of teaching during a global pandemic.

For more information on the symposium, visit https://go.unl.edu/jxhu .

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