IN-PERSON: Applying Education
Abstract
The environment in which todays students will eventually work will be international and multicultural. The University of Liverpool housed the worlds first School Of Architecture to design and run RIBA accredited degrees in architecture from 1902, numbering six RIBA Gold Medal winners among it graduates and staff. In the last decade it has pioneered an innovative process of fusion with a new architecture school in Suzhou, China- where the two Institutions are one, involving a large influx of approx 150 Chinese students/year into the Liverpool School. How has this process been managed? What are the advantages/ disadvantages? How can the process be improved? What are the perceptions/ aspirations of the new intake? How is connectivity achieved?.. Through interviews with all participants, the paper will investigate the impact of this new initiative, and the fluid world we inhabit as teachers- and look ahead to the possible applied outcomes.
Jack Dunne is a multi- award winning Architect and Urban Designer with a background in Architectural Practice. He has been a Practitioner on three Continents and an Educator on four, and his research and practice work has been with low income communities in the UK, USA and Mexico. He is currently Director of Studies and Admissions for the Masters in Architecture Programme at Liverpool University in the UK, and is an RIBA Chairman of International Validation for Schools of Architecture.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Thursday 27th April, 2023