Fourth international Forum on Architectural Education organized by MimED (Association for Architectural Education) featuring the theme “Flexibility” is going to be held at Faculty of Architecture, Erciyes University in Kayseri, a major city in the prominent Capadocia region of Turkey between 26 - 29 May 2009. The forum is organized with the motive that scholars and practitioners from all over the world will come together in order to interrogate the current nature of architectural education.

Today, both in criticism and approach the evaluation of knowledge and its plural processes of production within the intellectual milieu stand on a slippery ground. On this ground, the changing position(s) of the individual is one of the motivating forces behind creativity and novelty. As in any other field, to keep the pendulum -which oscillates between transformations and variations and can be conceptualized by inconsistence- on the side of the authenticity of the word is a problem which needs to be re-visited in architectural education. The inquiry into whether the authenticity of the word is a problem which needs to be isolated from any ideological affiliation or not, has already been done through several discourses of the intellectual milieu of the 20th century. While triggering various architectural attitudes in production, these different answers also have implications for architectural education itself.

Today, what seems unavoidable for architectural education is to internalize informal instruments and media in order to be more flexible and far-reaching. Forcing the limits of participation in terms of criticism and emancipation, this attitude will provide progressive development of institutional reflexes. In a century where ideological and physical boundaries are vanishing, new sets of relationships emerge between disciplines, individuals and institutions. Within this context, the forum aims at discussing (but is not limited to) the following topics:

Knowledge in Architecture
- limits of acquired knowledge
- multi/inter/trans disciplinary - attitude to other developments and thinking
- multi/inter/trans disciplinary approaches
- auxiliary information/data/knowledge
- research by design

Content of Architectural Education
- notion of architectural design
- meaning in architectural education
- consideration of history phenomenon
- theory as the core of architectural education
- context and cultural strategies

Approaches in Architectural Education
- teaching methods
- new strategies and trends for studio teaching
- impact of representation media
- interactions between new materials, techniques and design
- flexibility by holistic approaches
- roles and features of architectural educators
- interactions between actors of architectural education
- diversified mediums for architectural education

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts and full texts must be submitted in English and should be sent in electronic form as MS-Word (*.doc) or Rich Text Format (*.rtf) to the following address: arched2009@gmail.com. Abstracts are about 500 words. The cover page should be prepared separately from the main text of the abstract. This page must include the title of the paper, the name of the author(s), affiliation and full contact information.

Posters
Abstracts of the posters are about 200 words with maximum 3 images jpg, 72 dpi, CMYK and should state clearly the purpose, methodology and expected conclusions of the work to be described in the final poster paper. The cover page should be prepared separately from the main text of the abstract. This page must include the title of the paper, the name of the author(s), affiliation and full contact information. Please include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page. Accepted language for posters is English only. All posters will be exhibited during the Conference and poster presenters are expected to attend the Conference.

Schedule
04 April 2008: First call
30 June 2008: Second call 
30 September 2008: Third call 
14 November 2008: Deadline for abstracts and posters, suggestions for workshops and exhibitions
19 December 2008: Acceptance of abstracts and suggestions for workshops and posters (accommodation, events, fees)
25 March 2009: Deadline for full Papers, Posters submission

Scientific Committee
- Gülsün Sağlamer (I.T.U. - MimED)
- Sevgi Lökçe (E.U. - MimED)
- Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu (I.T.U. - MimED)
- Iris Aravot (Israel Institute of Technology)
- Constantin Spiridonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Gabriela Goldschmidt (Israel Institute of Technology)
- Semra Aydınlı (I.T.U. - MimED)
- Gülsüm Baydar (I.E.U. – MimED)
- Ahsen Özsoy (I.T.U. - MimED)
- George Dodds (Editor of the JAE)
- Nur Esin (I.T.U. - MimED)
- Hülya Turgut (I.T.U. - MimED)
- Belkıs Uluoğlu (I.T.U.)
- Bülent Tanju (Y.T.U.)
- Aydan Balamir (M.E.T.U - MimED)
- Zeynep Uludağ (G.U. - MimED)
- Sencer Erkman (E.U. - MimED)
- Sema Serim (E.U.)
- Beyhan Bolak Hisarlıgil (E.U.) 
- Selen Morkoç (University of Adelaide)

Organization Committee
- Sevgi Lökçe (Chair)
- Burcu Ceylan
- Sencer Erkman
- Gonca Büyükmıhçı
- Sema Serim
- Füsun Kocatürk
- Özlem Parlak Biçer 
- Beyhan Bolak Hisarlıgil
- Yeşim Alemdar
- Burak Asiliskender

Organization Secretariat
- Füsun Kocatürk
- Hale Kozlu
- Seven Yücel
- Oktay Turan
- Duygu Ovacık
- Özlem Sümengen
- Özlem Atak
- Ahmet Erdem Tozoğlu

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