AA tutor Boštjan Vuga named the Chief Curator of the edu.arh exhibition 'Practices in Architectural Education'
AA tutor Boštjan Vuga named the Chief Curator of the edu.arh exhibition 'Practices in Architectural Education'
AA tutor Boštjan Vuga, who teaches DIP5 (Porous! Public!) has been invited to curate the edu.arh exhibition Practices in Architectural Education at the Museum of Architecture and Design Slovenia, marking the centenary of the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.
With the ongoing stratification of the architectural profession architects have to take a critical position in their contemporary environment, must actively shape it, and create the conditions for our new realities. What kind of profile, then, should the future architect have? What would an institution charged with educating such an architect look like? Can insight into past and present practices of architectural education in Slovenia be used to explore how such education might develop in the future?
Both in Slovenia and elsewhere in the world, alternative practices and spinoffs have appeared parallel to institutional architectural education ever since its beginning, displaying a different potential for the concept and development of architectural education. The exhibition is centred around seven stations representing seven architectural education practices from 1960 to the present. Each station produced different architectural education and knowledge production apparatuses that differed in form and content from the approved curriculum. This is why the actions and products presented at these stations were relevant not only at the given historical moment but remain so today, because they demonstrate the need to question existing architectural education models.
The exhibition opening is accompanied by a video of the guided tour and a catalogue, which is to be published end of March 2021.
25 March 2021