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Sections
Considering the best ways to get to some tangible results of the reflections on the proposed theme of our Conference and considering also the first registrations we received, we decided to dived it into two separate Sections, expecting each of them to come with its partial conclusions, conclusions that are to be the base on which to elaborate the paper the Conference is expected to deliver.
Section A – DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURE
During the last decades, diversity became a key concept of our times, taking a preeminent place in social and cultural debates. At the same time, as it happens too often, it is taking the shape of a too large umbrella, covering so much that it claims the need of clarifications before any reflection about its role in the architectural teaching. Therefore, in order to set a perspective for our debate, we propose a few questions, as an incentive and as a introduction to your own questions :
- is diversity in architecture just an expression of the absolute “freedom of creation”, a justification of an approach that do not need to take the difficult way of long and thorough reflections, based on extended professional and cultural knowledge or,
- is diversity an expression of the richness of so many cultural traditions interacting and even colliding and, as such, is diversity a cultural expression and, if this is the case, what are the ways of determining condivided perspective on the subject of the diversity in architecture ?
- what is the contribution the study of the evolutions of the architecture and the city, as well as that of the ideas and theories in modern times can bring to the effort of clarification demanded by a reasoned approach of diversity in architecture?
- what is the meaning of the diversity for the architecture and what is the meaning for the city and the town planning ? is it possible to have the same approach to both of them or is it more appropriate to consider, as a first step, the specific way each of them is related to the cultural diversity and to its physical expression and only after that to try to recompose the inseparable unity they form together – at list if we consider the european urban tradition
Section B – DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
The second Section of the Conference should focus on the ways diversity is to be considered, possibly in a largely agreed manner, in the architectural education process.
- should we begin by considering a general strategy regarding the variety of aspects implied by the architectural education, recognising diversity as a one of its focal, structuring concepts ? and just after that should we, in a come and go process, reflect on the most appropriate ways to consider different ways to approach diversity, specific for different university departments
- is the study of the history of the city and the territory, of gardens and landscapes, of materials and techniques, of the architectural theory – especially those of the modern period – is it to play a major role ?
- what would be the best way to determine a method of orientation of a specific critical evaluation for the project options while accepting diversity?
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