The Arch. Ed. Podcast

For almost ten years, second-year Architecture students at the University of Nottingham have been building small educational buildings in South Africa. This year, the Department of Architecture and Built Environment invited me to participate in the 2017/18 edition of the project, building a small crèche in the village of Mothopong, near Tzaneen in Limpopo Province for the Thušanang Trust. The Trust is a non-profit founded in 1986 to train teachers and establish community-based Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres. This is the third in a series of podcasts to be recorded while I was participating in the project as a guest academic staff member. In this episode, recorded during week two of the second phase of the four-week build, I speak again to staff, students and stakeholders in the project as it nears handover to crèche teacher Joyce (pictured, above right). The project ends with a joyful celebration organised by Joyce and fellow community members, at which the students' #ProjectIthuta became the new Mothopong Crèche. The call for papers for the forthcoming session on transnational live projects mentioned at the end of the episode can be found at colonialandpostcoloniallandscapes.com/sessions (deadline 30 June, 2018).

For almost ten years, second-year Architecture students at the University of Nottingham have been building small educational buildings in South Africa. This is the second in a series of podcasts to be recorded while I was participating in the project as a guest academic staff member. In this episode, recorded in South Africa during week three of the four-week build (and week one of phase two) I speak once again to structural engineers Lois Plaistow and Steve Wickham of Price & Myers; project manager Pete Russell, Thušanang Trust Director Terry Morgan and University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering Project Officer Tony Gospel.

This is the first in a series of podcasts to be recorded during the University of Nottingham's 2017/18 live project in South Africa. This year's crêche was designed by a group of three second-year students in the second year of Nottingham's ARB/RIBA Part 1 Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) programme. It will be built by approximately thirty students in two consecutive two-week phases over the four weeks of the 2018 Easter vacation. I'm in South Africa for phase two.

Episode 29: Bryan Bell, Design Corps, SEED, & NC State

Episode 28: Regina Loukotová, ARCHIP, Prague

Episode 27: Henri Achten, MOLAB, ?VUT Prague

The podcast's return continues with a look back at the fourth international conference of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE) Architecture Connects, held at Oxford Brookes University from 6-9 September 2017. The podcast begins with a conversation with the chair of the conference committee Jane Anderson, and continues with students and academic delegates from around the world.

Episode 25: Richard Hall

Slightly later than originally promised, episode 24 is the second of two "live" conference podcasts from the 33rd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) hosted by the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning. This episode features informal conversations with some of the delegates at the conference on the second day of the conference.Special thanks to NCBDS 33 Chair Erin Carraher, Co-Chairs Cord Bowen, Jonathan Mills and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, and all the College of Architecture & Planning student volunteers who made the event possible.This episode of the Arch. Ed. Podcast has been made possible in part by the Teaching Innovation Project fund and the Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

Episode 23 is the first of two special "live" conference podcasts from the 33rd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) hosted by the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning. This episode features informal conversations with co-chairs and delegates during the first full day of the conference.This episode of the Arch. Ed. Podcast has been made possible in part by the Teaching Innovation Project fund and the Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

After an unplanned eight month interlude, the Arch. Ed. Podcast is back. In this brief update from Salt Lake City, Utah, I offer an apology for the radio silence, and have some news about forthcoming episodes coming later this week and later this month.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

After delivering a keynote lecture at the Architecture_MPS conference in Bristol earlier this year, Professor Michael Jemtrud of McGill University's School of Architecture invited me to stop by during my recent visit to Montréal. Michael is the Founding Director of Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (FARMM), and his teaching and research at McGill's School of Architecture includes a number of collaborations in the city and province.We talked about two projects in which Michael and his students have been deeply involved: Le Salon 1861, a co-working and community space in a deconsecrated historic church in the heart of Montréal's Little Burgundy, and Little Burgundy Narratives, an ongoing research-creation project in the same neighbourhood.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

Five days before the UK's referendum on the country's continuing membership of the European Union, the Architecture Students Network convened a one day conference at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA) Collaborating Across Borders.Following trigger papers from Prof. Fionn Stevenson (SSoA Head), Peggy Lim (outgoing Sheffield Students' Union International Students' Officer) and Deborah Cobbett (English language instructor), the conference broke for lunch. While we browsed the SSoA end of year show, I asked student delegates for their perspectives on the internationalisation of architectural education and the upcoming referendum.The conference programme and more info about the ASN could be found here.

In episode 20, the first of three episodes recorded in Montréal, Québec, I speak to Professor Carole Levesque at the School of Design, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM).We first heard from Carole in episode 12 of the podcast, when I met her at the 2016 AIARG Conference in Cork, Ireland. In this episode, we take more time to discuss her teaching, research, live projects and emerging project to map and represent the terrains vagues (leftover spaces) of the island of Montréal.

In episode 19 I take time out from the recent aae 2016 conference to talk to Professors Lorraine Farrelly and Flora Samuel about the new BSc Architecture course at the University of Reading, which opens in autumn 2016. We discuss the establishment of a research culture and teaching environment.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

Episode 18 is the second of two special "live" conference podcasts from the 3rd international conference of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE) hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. In this episode, I talk to some of the delegates during on the second day of this year's conference at school's temporary home at 132 and 140 Hampstead Road.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

Episode 17 is the first of two special "live" conference podcasts from the 3rd international conference of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE) hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London,  In this episode, I talk to some of the delegates during the first full day of this year's conference at school's temporary home at 132 and 140 Hampstead Road.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

Episode 16 of the Arch. Ed. Podcast talks to Dr. Harriet Harriss and Daisy Froud, co-editors of Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and the British Tradition, published in May 2015 by RIBA Publishing. Featuring chapters by Mel Dodd, Sam Jacob, Alan Powers, Jack Self, Tatjana Schneider and others, Radical Pedagogies presents a debate about the future of architectural education, placing it within its unique historic tradition and raising questions as to where architecture schools should be situated, who should be teaching it and what should be included.For a limited time only, RIBA Bookshops are offering Arch. Ed. Podcast listeners an exclusive offer: 20% off Radical Pedagogies. To claim your discount, order Radical Pedagogies from RIBA Bookshops and apply your discount code RADPEDS2016 at the checkout. The voucher expires on 1 May 2016.  It can be used once for a single transaction and excludes postage and packing.  Full terms & conditions are available at ribabookshops.com.

From 1 August 2016, students will be allowed to carry concealed firearms on public college and university campuses in Texas. So how do educators at Texan schools of architecture feel about teaching students who may be armed?This episode of the Arch. Ed. Podcast has been supported in part by the Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.

Episode 14 is the second of two special "live" conference podcasts from the 32nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) hosted by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In this episode, the conference moves to the Cal Poly campus in beautiful (and I mean beautiful) SLO.This episode of the Arch. Ed. Podcast has been supported in part by the Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University.Get new episodes of the Arch. Ed. Podcast automatically downloaded to your device - click here to subscribe on iTunes or add the RSS feed http://www.archedpodcast.com/?format=rss to your preferred podcast catcher app.