Foundational Design Studios - legacies and innovations

What is the Basic Design appropriate for ASEAN Schools of Architecture"? This project offers an overview of the approaches employed.

How do we experience and map the city? How different are these from the ways other groups experience the city?

How do we draw or represent effectively what we see? what we cannot see? what we can only hear and smell ?

AN ASEAN-BASED DESIGN THEORY"?

Do Asian patterns of use of public spaces define the needs of teh public realms differently, and vice versa? How does the concept of compact and high intensity city sits with the current pandemic concerns?

PEDAGOGY ANTICIPATING REAL WORLD NEEDS

How should architectural design respond to the COVID-19 and future pandemics?

What are the levels of interventions? And how do we incorporate ‘good science’ and ‘evidence’ and NOT ‘hear-say’ or ‘Past wisdom’ alone to navigate through these treacherous waters?

How do we manage regional and global cooperations using our intimate understanding of the workings of our respective cultures to support this new demands?

How do we work disciplinarily with other knowledge areas?

Modern architecture heritage in ASEAN

Ensuing from the ADERA Inaugural Meeting and Symposium, this working group will undertake the sharing of key documents and exemplars of Modern Architecture in SEAsia. It will link up with other established groups with similar persuasion, namely to create a critical and robust understanding of the Modern Legacies.

A review of the manner of periodisation, an identification of ‘heroic/iconic’ works, a discussion of the taxonomy of stylisation like ‘Brutalist’ ‘Metabolist’ ‘Sustainable’ Modern’ Critical Regionalist’ ‘Post-Modernist’ etc

Contemporary discourses

Foreign architects are a bane to local practices. Is this a hold-over from colonialism? A neo-colonial mindset that our standards of judgment have to unravel? Our education and our intellectual exposure as such is fait accompli to to our own self-denigration? That ‘western’ is better because they are more critical and the aesthetics more appealing?

Is there a ‘Asian aesthetics”? And is it useful and meaningful in a globalised culture to dichotomise cultures in this manner?

Or is a self-denial that foreign architects truly bring about changes and theoretical discourses that are more robust and responsible to the needs of ASEAN countries?

Pinterest sharing of national Modern of SEAsia

Group share of the imagination of nations in SEAsian post-war architecture

Environmental Technologies for the tropics

How do we use Nature to our advantage? To convert its energy to do the work of the city - to move people, to cool the streets, to gather as a community?

implications of digital technologies

We make things differently because we see the world differently. Material limits end with the prospects of the eye’s and the mind’s limit of imagination. Bricks are defined by the method of unitary pieces, and sized for the human hand and workability. The digital technologies of making and the new materials change the field totally….

climate change issues and resilience technologies

Building technologies need to look beyond the limits of buildings.

TOPICS About URBANISM

Is Urban is ‘cool’ and ‘fun’ under the present pandemic? Do Asian cities need to reconsider the density question. Do we need to re-densify, and what does these mean for social equities and opportunities?

Community Engagement in Architecture Design Education in ASEAN

How do we imbue social responsibility in our engagement with the various communities that we work with? How do we translate design sensibilities to create more responsive, meaningful and endearing environments?

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ARCHITECTURE PROFESSIONAL MATTERS

ASEAN has formalised a common understanding of trades and services across its border. What are the implications of the education and training of teh architects? What role should school play in its educational modules to foster a deeper understanding of practice cultures of different countries?

What does collaboration means?

Annual Juried Studios (Proposed WORKing PROJECT)

This is an AUN-ADERA Project to promote design excellence in a selected thematic. The 2021 Juried Studio demonstrating innovative Year1 Basic Design also parallel the Symposium on Peagogical Design Issues and Approaches in a Pandemic.

AUN-ADERA Schools share ways of working virtually, and identify methods to leverage on regional and global resources.

The panel of juried studios also award citations for works.

AUN-ADERA ASEAN Biennale (Proposed working Project)

A bi-annual event curated by ABC, XYZ and DEF universities, this biennale dealt with the issues of ARCHITECTURE ABD URBANISM in a COVID-19 Pandemic.

Expert panels assess the works for their capacities to meet the challenges of work, live and play in an Era of Diminishing Returns

ASEAN Visual Collections (Working IDEA)

Visual Materials for use by ASEAN Universities Students for their architectural design and research projects. All materials are pledged as original (by the donor) and offered free for public use (without prejudice) for the purpose of research writing only. The Collections are maintained by AUN-ADERA. under those broad and generous intents, and anyone using them should cite the network source,

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