IE School of Architecture & Design Newsletter - May 2020

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MAY 2020

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Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

- Edward Glaeser

#AGENDA

A Symbiotic Approach to User-Centered Design and Placemaking

27 May - 6.00pm CEST

Online

Using case studies and real projects Stephanie Edwards and James Stewart, Founders of Urban Symbiotic, will explore how to use insight from engagement to inform and innovate design, ranging from public realm interventions to city strategies.

Find out more and register.

#LIVE

Spectacles: Visions on Design

Tuesdays - 11.11am CEST

Instagram LIVE

Edgar González, Director of the Bachelor in Design, gives us a personal perspective on current design trends.

Join him each week to hear more about the ideas, inventions, and developments that he believes will be important for the field and perhaps even for all of us!

#LIVE

Education Speaks To... Education

Fridays - different times

Instagram LIVE

Dean Martha Thorne speaks to experts in different fields to uncover valuable lessons for education.

This Friday, May 29 at 7.00pm CEST, we will welcome Mimi Zieger, critic and curator.

Join us LIVE to find out more.

#LIVE

Love Letters to our Cities

Wednesdays - 6.00pm CEST

IE A&D students and alumni share their love letters to cities.

Cristina Mateo, Associate Dean at IE A&D, leads this initiative.

MSD Alumni Rasha Al-Tekreeti and Katerina Fadeeva will join us today

Follow all the Instagram LIVE sessions in our Instagram profile page @iearchdesign

#AGENDA

How Architecture & Design Impact our Health, Well-Being & Happiness

3 June - 12.00pm CEST

Online

Anupama Kundoo, architect and educator, and Amélie de Marsily, Director of the IE Center for Health, Well-Being and Happiness, will join forces to share how architecture can be used to bring us harmony.

Join us for a session where we will explore how the three main pillars of happiness are heavily impacted by the design of our homes, offices, buildings, and cities.

Find out more and register

#AGENDA

AScUS (un)Conference

3-5 June - Different times

Online

AScUS (Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability) is a participants-driven (un)conference with the mission to engage attendees to stimulate in-depth discussions.

The event, hosted by Matan Mayer, Assistant professor at IE A&D, and organized with the IE Center of Sustainable Cities and IE A&D, will consist of two and a half-day virtual event broadcasting discussions around science, cities, and sustainability.

Find out more and register

#AGENDA

When Real Estate Creates Great Urban Spaces

10 June - 9.00pm CEST

Online

The real estate industry in Sao Paulo built some of the finest privately owned public spaces, bringing together some of the most ambitious developers and avant-garde architects in the 1950s and 60s. These examples are currently being rediscovered by residents and investors.

Raul Lores, editor-in-chief of the renowned magazine Veja Sao Paulo, will show how thoughtful large-scale developments and mixed-use spaces can contribute to vibrant and diverse neighborhoods.

Find out more and register

#AGENDA

Six Strategies Towards Participatory Architecture

17 June - 7.00pm CEST

Online

Colombian Architect Giancarlo Mazzanti will prove how architecture, when well-designed, can build new identities for enhance a city's reputation.

He will present the essential components for a truly participatory process for architecture. This innovative and inclusive process seeks to take into account many variables which will lead to open, diverse, and responsive architecture.

Find out more and register

IE A&D's MOOC:

Making Architecture

#MAKINGARCHITECTURE

Making Architecture, the massive open online course (MOOC) produced by IE School of Architecture and Design, is the first course in architectural design within the educational platform Coursera.

The first course was launched in September 2016, and the newest edition began on March 25, but you can join anytime!

Don't miss it!

IE Master in Real Estate Development: Accredited by RICS

#RICS #MRED

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has accredited the IE Master in Real Estate Development (MRED), enabling IE A&D graduates to apply for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC).

RICS accreditation is a globally recognized standard and means that MRED can now offer an accredited program associated with a leading professional organization in land, property, and the built environment.

Congratulations!

Read more about it

Silvia Lucchetta, Architectural-Interior Designer @ Vincent Van Duysen Architects & Co-Founder @ Studio Atme

#IEALUMNI

Born and raised in Treviso, Italy, Silvia Lucchetta completed the Bachelor in Architectural Studies at IE A&D in 2016.

After working in different studios and projects all over the world, Silvia has moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where she's working as an architectural interior designer at Vincent Van Duysen Architects and running her practice: Studio Atme, founded with IE’s former classmate Jaime Pages Sánchez.

“One of the aspects that I like the most about my job is that I am constantly shifting scales between different parts of the project: from the architectural scale of a multi-property project to the smallest detail of a custom piece of furniture."

Read about Silvia's experience at IE A&D and find out why she said "My experience at the Bachelor in Architectural Studies was unique!"

#SPOTLIGHT #ARCHDAILY

Alternative Healthcare Facilities

As the healthcare infrastucture is becoming overwhelmed and hospitals around the worls are reaching their capacities, new alternative possibilities are emerging. ArchDaily compiles some of them, including Adapta, developed by 50SuperReal, professors at IE A&D.

Find out more

#SPOTLIGHT #ARCHDAILY

Protective Face Shields by Architects

Architects around the worls have put their knowledge to use in the fight agains coronavirus. Some of them are using 3D printing technology to assemble face protection gears and help with the world-wide shortage of masks. IE A&D's contribution is among the ones presented by ArchDaily in this article.

#SPOTLIGHT #PODCAST

A Pinch of Doubt

Cem Kayatekin, Assistant professor at IE A&D, has developed A Pinch of Doubt, a podcast to talk about topics critical to urbanism, through a series of interviews with professionals and academics in the field.

Listen to the last one here

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