Embedding collaborative platform for upskilling and networking toward sustainable cities - ENABLE
ProjectThe contemporary condition of cities represents fragmented urbanization that makes the need for in-depth exploration of the environmental capacities necessary. If so, the relation between man and his environment, the idea of place and context should be re-examined, which implies a change in the scale or an expansion of the traditional approaches of architectural education.
ENABLE is in line with Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities from the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the 2018 Review of SDGs implementation it is necessary to integrate urbanization into diverse spheres of the national development planning. Given its implications for overall growth and transformation, more efforts need to be undertaken to increase awareness to ensure that urbanization is integrated into national development planning from a strategic and multisectoral perspective.
The project objective begins from the aspiration for creating a networked academic environment with an intention to challenge the inherited inert high-education models in a south-east European context to an interdisciplinary and transnational educational network with diverse methods already developed in different European high education environments. This will result with a proposed methodology for sustainable cities using multidisciplinary approach tested in a form of a networked syllabus for the course Studio implemented on the three project partners high educational institutions. This strategic approach will take in consideration the field of sustainable city planning education through the topics of urban and economic growth, social inclusiveness, history, innovation, heritage and tourism. With its complex nature the city of Prilep, North Macedonia is chosen as a study case of this project in order to confront it with a collaborative international educational network.
The process contains two (2) years of international and interdisciplinary collaboration between entities from North Macedonia together with other EU based entities (Austria, Italy and Czech Republic) which will complete this international consortium of higher education institutions and private research institutes. Faculties at the three higher education institutions (School of Architecture and Design at UACS, Institute of Spatial Planning at TU Wien and Department of Architecture and Territory at Mediterranean University Reggio di Calabria) will engage with the syllabus in a form of a regular or a selective courses in their master programs complemented by the practical experience transmitted by two other partner institutes (IECE Skopje and Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation Brno).
The project timeline will be structured through three (3) main activities representing the objectives of the project, developed in time frame of 24 months.
ENABLE is in line with Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities from the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the 2018 Review of SDGs implementation it is necessary to integrate urbanization into diverse spheres of the national development planning. Given its implications for overall growth and transformation, more efforts need to be undertaken to increase awareness to ensure that urbanization is integrated into national development planning from a strategic and multisectoral perspective.
The project objective begins from the aspiration for creating a networked academic environment with an intention to challenge the inherited inert high-education models in a south-east European context to an interdisciplinary and transnational educational network with diverse methods already developed in different European high education environments. This will result with a proposed methodology for sustainable cities using multidisciplinary approach tested in a form of a networked syllabus for the course Studio implemented on the three project partners high educational institutions. This strategic approach will take in consideration the field of sustainable city planning education through the topics of urban and economic growth, social inclusiveness, history, innovation, heritage and tourism. With its complex nature the city of Prilep, North Macedonia is chosen as a study case of this project in order to confront it with a collaborative international educational network.
The process contains two (2) years of international and interdisciplinary collaboration between entities from North Macedonia together with other EU based entities (Austria, Italy and Czech Republic) which will complete this international consortium of higher education institutions and private research institutes. Faculties at the three higher education institutions (School of Architecture and Design at UACS, Institute of Spatial Planning at TU Wien and Department of Architecture and Territory at Mediterranean University Reggio di Calabria) will engage with the syllabus in a form of a regular or a selective courses in their master programs complemented by the practical experience transmitted by two other partner institutes (IECE Skopje and Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation Brno).
The project timeline will be structured through three (3) main activities representing the objectives of the project, developed in time frame of 24 months.