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Structures for Inclusion 7 - design/build

kitt05

Design Corps is pleased to announce that its seventh offering in the Structures for Inclusion conference series will take place April 13-15, 2007, at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Addressing the theme "High Impact: Positive Change Through Design/Build," SFI7 will focus on the growing interest in design/build as both an academic and a professional methodology.

Design/build has offered an excellent venue for creating positive change through architecture as it encompasses both the idea and the execution, providing a tool for designers to take real and immediate action. What is being shown through realized examples is that design/build is relevant to many social, political, and environmental issues. The attention on this impact has led the profession to reassess its role, educators to re-evaluate their teaching models, and the public to reconsider the ways designers can contribute to the issues individuals face daily.

With a focus on current case studies, SFI7 will provide students, educators, and other design professionals with informative examples of the best academic and practice-based projects. Case studies are selected to demonstrate exemplary and visionary techniques for executing design/build projects, providing a forum for learning, discussion and evolution of design/build. Presentations will include examples ranging from Katrina and tsunami disaster relief to political constructions and digital fabrication.

SFI7 is being co-organized by the University of North Carolina Charlotte College of Architecture, and Design Corps, and will be held after CriticalMASS, an annual symposium hosted by the College of Architecture’s Master of Architecture Student Society (MASS) in the spring. This year’s invited critics and the keynote speakers are SHoP Architects.

Complete details can be found on the new Design Corps website at www.designcorps.org/sfi7

 
Feb 19, 07 2:51 pm
nightrain

Excellent!! Went last year in San Francisco. Highly recommend and looks like good line-up this year. Worth a Saturday.

Feb 20, 07 1:44 am  · 
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nambypambics

i couldn't load the travel infio page... bug?

Feb 20, 07 8:23 am  · 
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kitt05

The travel information page is working. Hopefully you will be able to view it this time.

Feb 21, 07 11:34 am  · 
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quixotica

So I just signed up. Anyone else planning on attending?

Mar 21, 07 2:12 pm  · 
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I'd like to go, gotta see if I can convince someone else to pay for it though.

Mar 21, 07 4:50 pm  · 
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Design Corps

If the cost of registration is an issue for you, let us know and we can waive it. (E-mail katherine@designcorps.org.) The only reason we charge is that one year it was free and people signed up and didn't show. We thought we sold out and turned people down but ended up with empty seats and extra meals.

If you want to catch a ride let us know from where. We can try and find others coming from your area. Larger groups are coming from Blacksburg, C'ville, Cambridge, Syracuse, Raleigh and some other places that may have extra room. Four Art students are coming from UCSB but I assume they are flying.

Friday night lecture by SHoP is optional. The event really starts Saturday morning at 9:30. You'll see ten 20 minute presentations of a diverse range of the best activist, student and professional design/build work we could find. Sunday morning is a free full breakfast with some informal follow-up discussion and Q&A with the speakers.

Mar 21, 07 11:35 pm  · 
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