Confronting Wicked Problems: Adapting Architectural Education to the New Situation in Europe

Adalberto Del Bo (Principal Investigator)

The thinking behind the project was that architecture, as an education, a discipline, and a profession, must redefine and release its potential for problem-solving and innovation within the new economic and societal context, to face, for instance, the challenges of sustainable development or those related to the reuse of the huge European architectural heritage. The project has tested and developed innovative practices in local teaching laboratories and provided a platform for making the results available to relevant schools. Moreover, it provided the educational institutions involved with insights to develop their systems and curriculum for Life-long learning, involving post-graduate target groups. In this way the project also has given input to systems for Continuous professional development (CPD), aiming at improving social impact and employability of European architects.

Contribution to SDGs: 4, 11