Heads' Meetings 2007
Proposed Themes for Discussion Between Heads of Schools of Architecture and Representatives of the Architectural Profession
at the ENHSA Conference 2007 in Chania, Crete on 2nd September 2007
As Lifelong Learning and the Transparency of Qualifications are institutionalised in the European Educational system as the main tools towards the knowledge based society and economy (Lisbon strategy), the relationship between the profession and education is facing a challenge for a radical restructuring and redefinition.
In the domain of architecture, the profession and education appear to have had a rather ambiguous relationship covering a big spectrum of different versions and degrees of trust, suspect, distance, exclusion. The proposed discussion should centre around the following themes:
1. What we will expect from a new definition of the relationship between education and practice? What is the new concept, the objectives, the perspectives? What must be the ‘new’, the ‘other’ the ‘different’?
2. How can a ‘competence based education’ become a catalyst to a new approach to this relationship? Common language, common frame, common terms?
3. What can Education now expect from the Profession? What can the Profession now expect from Education?
4. How the new relationship will respect the autonomy of the parties and the differences of the context in which each one must be developed?
5. What forms of collaboration between Education and the Profession can be developed in the new European context? Proposals, state of the art (Joint Working Party between the ACE and the EAAE, the new directive Qualifications Directive?). Brainstorming on new forms and possibilities. Does the Lifelong learning perspective offer a new opportunity and how (ex. results of the enquiry to professionals on competences of graduates)?
6. What initiatives shall we take in order to promote a more coherent continuity between Education and Profession?
16th August 2007
