OIKODOMOS WORKSPACES

This environment supports project-based learning activities, such as the development of a project -architectural and/or urban- in a collaborative manner. It facilitates the collaboration among distant learners, carrying joint learning activities in different settings, physical and virtual: design studios, seminars and courses.

OIKODOMOS CASE REPOSITORY

This is a digital repository of housing case studies, which is constructed collaboratively by learners. Currently, it has over 330 documented cases, analyzed and commented by students and teachers from different institutions. It is used to support learning based on the analysis of precedents.

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To conclude OIKODOMOS (www.oikodomos.org) we have organized a final workshop to present the outcomes of this project, in particular the two environments we have developed to support an open and collaborative education model in architectural education: OIKODOMOS Workspaces and OIKODOMOS Housing Repository.

An on-line forum, facilitated by project partners, will be open to prepare the discussions that to be taken place in the concluding session of the workshop.

To participate in the workshop, please fill in the data in this registration form.

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The Bratislava workshop (14-20th of October 2009) will benefit from the experiences of the previous Oikodomos workshops in Ghent (Lifelong dwelling) and Grenoble (Housing for diversity). It will deal with the “effective” urban and housing development in the Garden City – Dúbravka Big Camp, a suburban area located at the north-west area of Bratislava. The aim of the workshop is to develop conceptual proposals of effective housing design at the urban and architectural scales. Preparatory activities will take place before the workshop starts at the participating institutions. Distant collaborative work before and after the workshop activities will be carried out using the web-based learning platform developed for the Oikodomos project.

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A series of three workshops is being organized as part of the learning activities of the Oikodomos virtual campus project. The second workshop took place at Institut d’Urbanisme de Grenoble, from April 22nd to 29th 2009. The topic of the workshop was « housing for diversity ». The workshop was designed as a combination of conferences and teacher presentations plus a design studio. Students carried out their project work using the GIANT site as a basis (an area of 350 ha located at the west of the old center of Grenoble that is subject to a regeneration programme). In this way, Oikodomos project connects with the realities and practice of sustainable urban planning (and housing development strategies as a part of it) showing the diversity of stakeholders and requirements that interact in a project of this complexity, and opening academic work to the participation of the administration, professionals, investors and citizens.

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A series of three workshops will be organised in 2008 and 2009 as part of the learning activities of the Oikodomos virtual campus project. The first workshop will take place at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, School of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas, in Ghent, Belgium, from September 29th to October 3rd 2008. The topic of Workshop 1 will be "Lifelong dwelling: one side of sustainability". The aim of lifelong dwelling is to design a built environment adapted to young and old, to develop the architectural and urban conditions that support inhabitants throughout the different stages of their life.

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