CALL SUMMARY – ONLINE EDUCATION Recent events have brought into full light the various agendas around online education and research. As universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, teachers and students adapted to new pedagogical tools. Some educational establishments survived, others thrived, while some struggled and have already gone ‘out of business’. For some disciplines, the transition was seamless. Other disciplines writhed at having to forego the peer-to-peer learning environment of the classroom or the dynamic interaction of the design studio. Despite the ‘shock of the new’ all this represented, the virtual classroom, online studio, remote seminar, and distance education more generally, are far from new. Universities like Purdue University Global in the US and the Open University in the UK have been operating this way for years. This conference brings together education professionals and theorists with teachers and researchers from other disciplines. It asks, what is the “new present” for education and how do we learn from each other’s expertise and recent experiences. more »
CALL SUMMARY – TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH The backdrop to the conference is the varied interpretations of teaching as it relates to research. Definitions of ‘academic research’ vary but often exclude analysis, experiment, knowledge transfer and critical debate stimulated in the classroom, studio or lab. However, this is challenged. Educationalists routinely define the classroom and laboratory and use it to monitor how space influences learning. In architecture, landscape and urban design, the idea of a ‘design studio’ as a vehicle for research in and of itself is gaining traction. Programs of sociology and human geography routinely collect data on people and communities as part of classroom exercises. Teachers of art and social history reconsider and critique the cultural and social movements of cities in the very act of explaining them. This conference seeks to engage education professionals in debate and best practice sharing with educators in the art, design and social science disciplines. more »
TEACHING + RESEARCH Conferences This is an initiative coordinated by Routledge, AMPS, and PARADE. In collaboration from the Manchester School of Architecture (University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University).
TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH: DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTS
Place: Virtual / Manchester
Dates: 02-04 December, 2020 Round One Abstracts: 30th June, 2020
https://architecturemps.com/teaching-research-conference/
ONLINE EDUCATION: TEACHING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Place: Virtual / Manchester
Dates:21-23 April, 2021 Early Abstracts: 30th June 2020
https://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/
Wilhelm-Keiffer Student Research Award The Wilhelm-Keiffer Student Research Award will provide current and recently graduated undergraduate students with the opportunity to compete for a research award in the field of material culture studies. This award includes a $250 reimbursement towards conference travel, a reimbursement of the student’s conference registration and awards banquet, a one-year ISLPMC student membership, and an engraved plaque.. more »
Public Art Building Communities (PABC) Grant Program The Public Art Building Communities (PABC) grant program supports individual artists and organizations in their effort to design, fabricate and install new temporary or permanent works of public art that connects artists and their artwork with communities. more »
Historic Preservation and Wildlife Rehabilitation Grants The Kinsman Foundation provides grants for historic preservation and native wildlife rehabilitation and appreciation. Proposed activities must have a clear benefit to Oregon and southern Washington. more »
Historic Structure Assessment Grants Historic Structure Assessment grants are awarded for the sole purpose of preparing a report on the physical condition of a historic building or structure in accordance with a mandatory State Historical Fund assessment scope of work. more »
TETRAMAX 3rd call on Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer Experiments (TTX) The innovation action TETRAMAX aims to boost innovation by stimulating, organizing and evaluating different kinds of Technology Transfer Experiments (TTX). These co-funded “application experiments” connect SMEs and other for-profit companies (mid-caps, large industry, etc.) with international academics, resulting in low-risk industrial adoption of novel computing technologies. TETRAMAX provides innovative advanced digital technologies for novel electronic and non-electronic products in the area of Customized Low-Energy Computing (CLEC) for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT). more »
