Venue:
The Department of Architecture, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, Finland
This scientific conference in is a joint venture between researches in Finland and Sweden. The conference theme is developed in cooperation between the 4th Architectural Research Symposium in Finland and the 4th International conference on architectural competitions.
Interface is a word that is traditionally used in the context of information and communication technology; it is the meeting point between the human being and the machine or program, making it possible to operate the machine, and also receive the experience it provides. As technology is about to take the next step and turn ubiquitous, the problems and prospects of computer interfaces will become relevant to the whole built environment.
However, architecture has always had its human interface: building facades have communicated their function, their social prestige, their history, and their aesthetics. Doors and windows have been used much before Microsoft revolutionized personal computer interfaces with its Mac-inspired Windows user interface. But how much do we actually know about the way that people use the built environment, how they interpret the messages that architects send them, and how far their basic needs and feelings are touched by this human interface?
Architects have developed ways of ensuring architectural and urban quality, such as architectural competitions, but should be now turn a critical eye on these institutions and traditions? As the ethos of co-design, collaborative planning, and user oriented living environment dominates our current discussion, what kind of ideas of humanity and human agency are embedded in our thinking?
The symposium will address the following themes:
Competing in Architecture, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Research and Design – Bridging the Gap, Human Oriented Living Environment, the Future of the Past, Sustainability and Creativity
Registration and Fee:
Deadline for registration is April 30, 2012. The fee for attending the conference is 100 Euros for students and 200 Euros for others (researches, teachers and practicing architects). Late participants: 250 Euros.
Organized by:
Department of Architecture, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Department of Surveying and Planning, Aalto UniversitySchool of Engineering
Department of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology
Department of Architecture, Oulu University Faculty ofTechnology
School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Construction Engineering, Novia University of Applied Sciences
Finnish Association of Architects SAFA
SAFA.FI