Granted networks 2009 - Nordplus

02 Architecture
ID: 22787
Network: Nordic Academy of Architecture
Coordinating institution: CHALMERS TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLA Country: SE
Coordinator: Catharina Anna Dyrssen (dyrssen@chalmers.se)
Network description: The purpose is to develop a Joint Nordic Postgraduate Masters Programme
in Climate Neutral Architecture and Sustainable Built Environment. The aim is to form an advanced
Nordic education designed to confront the issues of climate strains caused by the built
environment, with the ambition to develop architectural knowledge on how to
• design and build for much less resources and energy use, smarter spatial solutions,
constructions and materials, and in accordance with climate conditions to develop resilient and
sustainable architecture;
• take care of existing building stocks by resilient and sustainable conservation and
transformation;
• develop and transform cities, regions and urban landscapes that will lead to less climate
strains, as indicated above, also addressing sustainable aspects of traffic and built environment as
well as social dimensions such as segregation, democracy, safety, health and accessibility to public
space.
The Joint Nordic Postgraduate Master's Programme will focus on climate conditions north of the
55th longitude, and it will incorporate the concepts of sustainability and resilience in all parts of the
planning and building processes, from the choice and use of building materials and components,
through reinforcing and further developing practices of recycling, waste management and low
energy use, to incorporating “green city" standards in urban planning and management.
The programme addresses graduated architects, landscape architects, urban planners, engineers,
constructors and professionals with a bachelor degree – all with at least 5 years of working
experience. The programme may admit masterstudents from all the Nordic and the Baltic
countries, as well as students from outside this area.
Mobility is an essential feature of the programme. The master students will attend studio courses
at at least four Nordic institutions. A part from the studio courses, the pedagogical approach is
based on e-learning, group work via internet (Skype), literature study and project work.
This application has five main objectives:
1. to make a thorough inventory and analysis of competences among the Nordic and Baltic
schools of architecture for the indicated master programme;
2. to make a more thorough inventory and analysis of the academic and professional need and
expectations for this kind of programme;
3. to map the gap between existing and needed competences;
4. to discuss the gap at a Nordic seminar;
5. on the basis of the analyses, to develop a joint curriculum for a Nordic Postgraduate Master
Programme as indicated.
Granted activities
JOINT STUDY PROGRAM
Partners
OULUN YLIOPISTO - ULEÅBORGS UNIVERSITET
ARKITEKTSKOLEN AARHUS
ARKITEKTUR- OG DESIGNHØGSKOLEN I OSLO
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Country
FI
DK
NO