An event organized and moderated by Collectif Etc in partnership with La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, October 2024.
For the conclusion of the European project “Architecture School Of Commons,” which we have been coordinating since 2021, we are organizing a gathering to share our findings and a round table to open the debate on one of ASOC’s central topics.
Can one be an architect and committed to seriously addressing social and climate challenges? As Simon Teyssou reminds us, “tomorrow, we may no longer call ourselves architects, but I don’t believe our professions, in the plural, will disappear.” In this roundtable, we will explore this plurality to showcase how today’s experiments are asserting themselves and becoming established, offering a convincing landscape of alternative professions. In this context, we will discuss education and how architecture schools could—or should—focus on the professionalization of students who wish to practice in ways other than traditional project management.
As part of this event, we have produced several types of materials: an article that re-examines the issue of professionalization for young and future architects, a booklet presenting the project as a whole along with some quotes from previous meetings, and we have begun drafting a book that will be published at the end of the year.
With:
Nancy Ottaviano, architect and researcher from Collectif 14
Corinne Langlois, State architect and urban planner, Ministry of Culture
Merril Sineus, independent architect
Alice De Nardi, architect and earthen mason in the cooperative Les Grands Moyens
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