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