IN-PERSON MADRID FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY. SECTION A

Abstract

A new unified paradigm in Education is needed since the world is facing unprecedented challenges that put at risk the future of mankind. We are aware that we live in an increasingly urban planet and concerns are multifold, from the environmental to the economics. The 21st Century Education and Pedagogy of the world’s Schools of Architecture should tackle them creatively by respecting but also renewing the lessons learned from history. A new approach is needed for what and how we build and how we live, starting with Education and establishing a stable and rewarding (i.e. sustainable) relationship between Man and Nature to reassess how we live together (i.e. urbanism) and how we build (i.e. architecture) to achieve the goal of increasing the quality of life if we want to leave a better world. The new paradigm should revisit how urban and architectural design have helped humans conceptualize and fabricate their relationship with Nature —the way people turn space into place and construct a human-made environment by emphasizing the role of design, as the “art of the contingent” to help humanity respond to emerging challenges since it is — at its core—always about adjusting ideal models and values to specific physical locations and cultural contexts and give them authenticity and identity. A new holistic and humanist concept for education is needed in contemporary teaching as a true foundation for the future based on a theoretical framework that helps Humanity address the needs of the people across the world.