The workshop, hosted by University of Cyprus, was attended by 25 postgraduate students and professionals from different countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, who participated in training sessions, seminars and group work, producing research findings on one of KAEBUP’s case studies (MoMRA Headquarters building in Riyadh, designed by Schiattarella Associati). Keynote speeches featured Sadaf Sultan Khan talking about “Mapping in data-sparse environments: a process of proxy identification and layering” and Sophia Vyzoviti who presented “The Russian gardens: snapshots of multicultural cohabitation in the Square of the Halls of Justice”.
KAEBUP aims at creating an international educational and training method offering participants the opportunity to engage with professional environments, learning how research can be the basis for innovative professional practices and what businesses in the field of planning, architecture and urban design require from academia.
To achieve this objective KAEBUP will provide the opportunity to establish transdisciplinary links between urban practices and business knowledge through a number of events in Cyprus, Portugal, Croatia and Italy.
The workshop, hosted by University of Porto, was attended by 20 participants from different countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. Activities included theoretical presentations on urban form and on the relationship between morphological research and architectural practice by KAEBUP partners and other experts in the field. Students and tutors collectively worked on urban form at different scales – from the entire city to one single building – addressing time and change, and reflecting on the relationships between the physical and the social dimensions. The city of Riyadh and the MoMRA building (designed by Schiattarella Associati) provided a pretext to develop a broad morphological view on urban form. The workshop was a privileged opportunity to reflect and discuss on the fundamental themes of urban form and the agents and transformation processes that shape it, in a collective learning method.
The Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma organized KAEBUP’s 3rd Intensive Training Workshop in Environmental Urban Design. The 5-day workshop was dedicated to students interested in calculating microclimate analysis of urban neighbourhoods in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) within data gathering methodologies tools – in particular using Envi-met. The workshop was mostly held online, but in-person lectures for one day were delivered in Parma, where national and international researchers were invited to debate issues related to urban morphology and climate design strategy to implement in critical urban situations such as the one of Riyadh. Throughout discussions, tutorials and research activities, participants succeeded in explaining and constructing interconnections between their Envi-met results and urban design analysis, evaluating environmental, architectural and social aspects of the local needs.
The workshop, hosted by University of Cyprus, was attended by 15 participants from KAEBUP’s partner organisations, including academic staff, students and professionals. The workshop focused on business models as a tool to define core products or services that an organisation wishes to offer, while linking this goal to strategy, profit formula, key resources and processes needed. Aimed at architects or designers with no formal business knowledge, the workshop offered lectures, masterclasses, and group activities based on design thinking principles with the aim of developing creative solutions to address social, urban, strategic and organisational problems through the development of prototypes that could lead to business proposals.
The ‘second edition’ of the Business Model Workshop was hosted by University of Porto. Aimed at architects, designers and enthusiasts, the workshop enabled participants to acquire the organizational basis of a business model, an indispensable tool to start a project related to a core product or to respond to the requests of a specific reality/company. The city of Porto was the subject of study and the protagonist of the final product of the workshop that the participants developed. A guided tour familiarised the participants with the beauties and the problems of the city, its evolution and transformation over the years, with a particular reference to the development of the residential type through real examples.
The final Business Model Workshop was hosted by University of Parma. The objective of the workshop was to learn to merge creative and design thinking with up-to-date project management tools, specifically the Agile Methodology, which enables to manage a project by breaking it up into several phases. The object of study was a selection of open public spaces in Parma: students had to identify potential place-based business opportunities, develop an idea and use design thinking to reduce risk, test assumptions and build a business value proposition meeting the needs of potential users. A guided tour familiarised the participants with the overall structure and background of the city, while a specialised walking tour of the study area enabled participants to understand the contexts and problematics of urban voids in the neighbourhood.
Four internships were hosted by the KAEBUP partner enterprises in the summer of 2022. Students from the University of Cyprus, University of Porto and University of Parma spent 2 months working in either Porto, Rome or Nicosia. The internships are the core element of the KAEBUP project’s work-based learning aimed at equipping students with experience of the professional world and with the skills needed to enter the job market. Students this year worked on a variety of projects ranging from architectural and interior design to master planning and research.
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This session will be hosted by UCY during the KAEBUP Final Event - From urban research to planning and design: strengthening cooperation between academia and practice. The event comprises a series of keynote speeches, round table discussions, research presentations, poster presentations and workshops, enabling the participants to flexibly build their professional development programme according to their interests and needs. The topics cover both theory and practice of evidence-based design and planning (EBDP), research methodologies, case studies of EBDP focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern region, but also looking globally at the relationship between architectural education and professional practice.
During the course of the project, we organized and hosted a diversity of small-scale activities in person and online focusing on training and capacity-building, as well as dissemination and knowledge exchange. The activities included round table discussions and presentations of our results, seminar series of research presentations covering different urban morphological approaches and collaborative learning activities now available on our R2P Platform.