Workshop

Velocity $5K Semi-Finals

Rebecca Schuetze — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:19:24 +0000

Velocity $5K Semi-Finals Rebecca Schuetze Thu, 11/03/2022 - 16:19

This is your opportunity to be in the audience as U��ݮ��Ƶ student teams pitch their startup ideas to a panel of judges from the local community. The top 8 teams from across night one and night two will move on to the Velocity $5K Finals on November 23rd to compete for a chance at one of four $5,000 prizes in grant funding to help turn their concept into a reality.

Praxes of Care: Design as Protest

Ryan Ferguson — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:23:15 +0000

Praxes of Care: Design as Protest Ryan Ferguson Mon, 08/29/2022 - 13:23

In Honour of Andrew Levitt, celebrating the legacy of a Professor Emeritus dedicated to teaching on care, and with care.

Please join us for Design As Protest: Organizing for Change, thelecture will be held from 6:30pm - 7:00pm in the Main Lecture Hall at the ��ݮ��Ƶ School of Architecture. Following the lecture a 90 minute workshop will take place in the Loft.

The lecture will be feature panelists Victor Zagabe, Sophie Weston Chien and Simone Delaney

Workshop supported by: Bz Zhang, christin hu, Fauzia Khanani, Kiki Cooper, Marwa Al-Saqqar, Sarah Gunawan

Design as Protest are a collective of designers mobilizing strategy to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression.

This is the first in a series of five lectures on the topic of communication.

Praxes of Care asks, “what is an architecture of care?” Over four terms–Fall 2021 to Winter 2023–a series of conversations will bring together two or more architects, designers, researchers, artists, activists, and care workers to discuss care processes according to the themes of Attention, Action, Communication, and Maintenance. The series is curated by faculty, staff, and representatives of student groups: Treaty Lands Global Stories, Bridge, and the Sustainability Collective. Recent calls for change have shifted the discipline toward the underlying social and ecological processes enabled by the production of architecture. By listening to and learning about care practices from interdisciplinary perspectives, we can begin to reshape the discipline of architecture into a form of care.

FALL 2022: COMMUNICATION

In our ongoing Speaker Series, this semester we investigate communication within a praxis of care. As Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto point out, care involves two-way interaction between care-givers and care-receivers and this communication is fraught with imbalances of power. Architecture is a discipline that cares for the organization of material spaces designed for human use, but often there is insufficient care for the future inhabitants of a building as a result of poor communication. In order to make architecture that facilitates and supports caring relationships between its users, special attention must be paid to the exchange of information between architects as care-givers and building inhabitants as care-receivers. This communication can be overt and very loud, or it can be barely audible, expressing itself through other senses, such as touch or vision. It also can act directly between the designer and future user or it can be mediated by government regulations or market practices that place limitations and norms on the design of architecture, creating negative and even violent effects on its inhabitants. Within this fall series we will discuss protest, advocacy, empowerment, investigation and listening as different forms of care communication, each necessary to create economically, socially, and ecologically equitable built environments for all.

The lecture series committee is: Tara Bissett, Adrian Blackwell, Amanda Dudnik, Jaliya Fonseka, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Beth Vince, Wendy Yuan, Joel Wan, Victor Zagabe. Former members involved in planning this series: Brenda Reid, Julie Dring, Mayuri Paranthahan.

Brenda Reid's recent graduate thesis, CARE As Architectural Practice, acts as the foundational framework for the series, including its four-part structure: attention, action, communication and maintenance.

The four linked posters for the series are designed by Julia Nakanishi

Accessibility: ��ݮ��Ƶ Architecture is committed to achieving accessibility for persons with disabilities who are attending the event. Closed Captioning will be available during online events. For accommodation questions and requests, please contact us in advance of the event at adudnik@uwaterloo.ca.

For more information on this series and other events presented by ��ݮ��Ƶ Architecture, please visit waconnect.ca or follow us @waterloo_architecture.

If you enjoy this lecture series and would like to help the School of Architecture continue to provide similar education activities and engagement opportunities, please visit our support page. Thank you for your dedication to our students and to our School!

CAFÉ Capital: Towards Equity in Architecture Workshops

Preetha Arulananthan — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:42:59 +0000

CAFÉ Capital: Towards Equity in Architecture Workshops Preetha Arulananthan Tue, 05/10/2022 - 11:42

A pan-Canadian series of events to assess, bridge, converse and deliver on equity in architecture.

Key take-aways from the 2019-2020 Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉ) included the potential to engage architecture as a tool for social justice and the need to address systemic inequities and unconscious bias in architectural pedagogy.

This 2022 CAFÉ series aims to unpack questions and deliberate actions toward diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism in three interdependent areas of architectural education – teaching & learning; research & practice; service & engagement – from three co-dependent perspectives of educators, students and communities.

The open online workshops this Spring (May 10, 20 and 27) will set the stage for an in person & online forum later this Fall (Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2022 – hosted by the Azrieli School of Architecture, Carleton University.

Each May workshop includes brief presentations to assess and frame critical questions, break-out rooms to strategize particular ways of bridging from concerns to corrective practices, and open conversations to share, question and deliberate next steps.

Events are open to all students, faculty and communities associated with Canadian schools of architecture.

Registration Details for workshops:

TEACHING & LEARNING

May 10, 2022 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

OPEN WORKSHOP – ZOOM

Registration Link

Details on presenters and topics available here.

RESEARCH & PRACTICE

May 20, 2022 | 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

OPEN WORKSHOP – ZOOM

Registration Link

Further details forthcoming.

SERVICE & ENGAGEMENT

May 27, 2022 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

OPEN WORKSHOP – ZOOM

Registration Link forthcoming

Details available (and forthcoming) on the SCHEDULE page of the CAFÉ website, and the @archcanadacafe Instagram.

Supported by a SSHRC Connection grant and CCUSA. Steering group: Lisa Landrum (UManitoba), Anne Bordeleau (U��ݮ��Ƶ), and Piper Bernbaum, Natalia Escobar and Ozayr Saloojee (CarletonU).

In Defense of Housing: Making Social Housing in a Neoliberal World

Amy Townsend — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:41:18 +0000

In Defense of Housing: Making Social Housing in a Neoliberal World Amy Townsend Wed, 03/04/2020 - 21:41

Game Night + Design Showcase

Engineering Advancement Coop — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:49:41 +0000

Game Night + Design Showcase Engineering Ad… Mon, 03/02/2020 - 09:49

Have fun at the Global Engineering Week Game Night! An interactive design project showcase!

Engage in innovative games designed by the SYDE 261 Design, Systems, and Society class. Explore the global impacts of emerging technology on society and our environment.

Try out newly designed boardgames, video games, role playing games, cards, and more!

Call for Papers

Engineering Advancement Coop — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:00:44 +0000

Call for Papers Engineering Ad… Fri, 02/21/2020 - 15:00

The theme of the inaugural Canadian Design Workshop is Designing Engineering Design Education in Canada. Participation by attendees will be in the form of podium or poster sessions, grouped by theme. Two-page abstracts are due March 1, 2020.

Conrad Connect: Founders roundtable

Engineering Advancement Coop — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:47:34 +0000

Conrad Connect: Founders roundtable Engineering Ad… Tue, 11/26/2019 - 14:47

Join us at the Conrad School for engaging and informative roundtable discussions with founders from the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ startup community.

Moving from table-to-table in three 20-minute sessions, attendees of this event will have the opportunity to hear from local entrepreneurs on topics that will help you build your startup:

Building your brand - with Cassie Myers, Founder of Lunaria
Finding your co-founder - with Folake Owodunni, Co-Founder of Emergency Response Africa
Avoiding burnout - with Cole Powers, Co-Founder of IntelliCulture

Stay for networking and refreshments and get connected to our entrepreneurial community.

Agenda:

6:30p.m. – Welcome and founder introductions.
7:00p.m. – Roundtable discussions, 20 minute sessions.
8:00p.m. – Networking. Refreshments served.