co+labo radović     Day 2 updates on Keio Architecture CDW Events @ Keio Hiyoshi Campus   

Day 2, brief summary:

-  Keio Architecture Symposium Sports, Bodies and Spaces: everyday life and major events part 1 organised in collaboration with Keio Institute for Physical Education

Chair Professor Toshiaki Sasaki

Sports and Bodies presentations, by students of Institute for Physical Education

Bodies and Space presentations, co+labo+Politecnico di Milano Double Degree students Kohei Yamashita, Olena Kopytina and Renan Prandini. Yamashita-san's scheme for Mamushi Dani has received 1st Prize in Keio Architecture CDW Masters Competition.

Their presentations were followed by discussion which touched upon some concrete ideas about the future of sport and recreation facilities at Keio Hiyoshi Campus

-  Kengo Kuma, Architecture and City After Olympics; second Keio Architecture in the Science and Technology Distinguished Series.The lecture was introduced by Professor Darko Radović and Dean Eiji Okada, and followed by discussion of Professor Estanislau Roca (UPC Barcelona) and question time.

-    Keio Architecture Symposium Sports, Bodies and Spaces: everyday life and major events part 2,

Introduced by Darko Radović, Professors Neno Kezić, Gabriele Masera, Tadej Glažar and Estanislau Roca delivered a series of short, inspiring lectures, which where followed by discussion and regret that there was not much more time. But, our collaboration with our partners Politecnico di Milano, University of Ljubljana, University of Split and Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña continues.

co+labo radović     Day 1 updates on Keio Architecture CDW Events @ Keio Hiyoshi Campus   

Day 1, brief summary:

Opening of Keio Architecture CDW Exhibition 2019

Masters, Undergraduate and System Design Competition Jury

Masters, Undergraduate and System Design Competition Awards Ceremony
Masters Award 1 - Yamashita, co+labo Radović

Masters Award 2 - Kinoshita, co+labo Radović

Undergraduate and SD Award 1 - Shimizu, Almazán Lab

Undergraduate and SD Award 2 - Ibaraki, Almazán Lab

Distinguished Lecture Series - Lecture 1: Fumihiko Maki+Yoshio Taniguchi, which was followed by a cocktail party and speeches by Professors Akira Haseyama, President of Keio University, Eiji Okada, Dean of the Faculty Science and Technology, which celebrates its 80th anniversary, Hiroto Kobayashi, Darko Radović and Akira Mita (all Keio Architecture).

co+labo radović     Day 0  co+labo&Keio Architecture CDW Exhibition, Lectures+Symposium   

Unquestionably the biggest of co+labo effort since foundation of our laboratory in 2009 was to help Keio University establish a discrete, international architecture and urban design programme. With second Keio Architecture Comprehensive Design Workshop (CDW) Exhibition, Guest Lectures and Symposium, which are all part of broader celebrations of the 80^th anniversary of the Faculty of Science and Technology, that dream is getting closer to reality than ever. All that was possible to do bottom-up has been accomplished, and these events will show that that is not little. The visitors will see the latest efforts of Keio Architecture students and the Awards Ceremony, attend two events in Science and Technology Distinguished Lecture Series and attend the Sports Bodies Spaces Symposium, which we co-host with Keio Institute for Sport and Education. Besides Keio Architecture students and professors Darko Radović, Hiroto Kobayashi, Jorge Almazán, Tatsuya Kishimoto and Akira Mita, the list of participants includes Fumihiko Maki, Yoshio Taniguchi, Kazuyo Sejima, Kengo Kuma, Estanislau Roca, Neno Kezić, Gabriele Masera, Tadej Glažar, Takashi Suo, Takuomi Saikawa, Satoshi Sano, Motoo Chiba, Katsuhito Komatsu and more. Join this Keio architectural and urban feast!

co+labo radović     co+labo teams earn Honorary Mentions at an international competition     

Two discrete co+labo teams took part in an interesting international design competition for requalification of a traditional market in Bologna. Two separate efforts, and deserved recognition go to co+labo Team - Shinichi Nishibori, Manca Košir, Amami Iwata, Muxi Yang, Norimi Kinoshita, Shun Kato on the image below), and co+labo Team a - Jumpei Kawamoto, Shohei Yamashita, Koki Suzuki, Yuki Mori, Can Krivec. Warm co+labo congratulations for these two efforts.

We do competitors to advance design-research culture, to stimulate creative and critical thinking in our laboratory and in Keio Architecture. The process of thinking and making competition entries itself is always rewarding, but - a nod from the Jury adds a nice nuance to that pleasure. (an update on this success of co+labo students will follow)

co+labo radović     special seminar on research methods in architecture and urban design     

Second special guest lecture dedicated to supporting current co+labo research will be delivered by Vuk Radović, a co+labo co-founder (2008) and followed by small, thematic group discussions. Vuk will share with us his recent work on urban morphology. As he explains, the development of the concept went through many iterations. After the initial emphasis on form, modernist architects concentrated their efforts on function. Later still, in the mid-twentieth century, a group of Italian architects introduced the notion of process into the field, and additional schools of morphological thinking were developed by their French and English counterparts. The lecture will focus at practical application of the Italian school, the Muratori approach and Gataldi's General Theory of Urban Morphology.

  

co+labo radović      special seminar on research methods in architecture and urban design     

As the pressure of design studios is decreasing, the intensity of research projects at co+labo goes up, in preparation for our various summer and autumn workshops and fieldworks, and the second semester in which research activities dominate. The first of two dedicated lectures/research seminars was delivered by Professor Davisi Boontharm (Meiji University I-AUD), an active and generous co+labo associate from the inception of our laboratory in April 2009, and followed by small, thematic group discussions. 

   

co+labo radović      Studio presentations announce forthcoming Keio Architecture Finale ...  

Keio Architecture Masters Studio A and undergraduate Almazán, Kishimoto and Radović Studio presentations have reminded us all that preparations for the big CDW events, Comprehensive Design Workshop Exhibition and Symposium are getting close. Projects developed within these studios will be exhibited and enter competition for one of the newly established Keio Architecture Awards. Keio Architecture Competitions will provide additional contribution to the forthcoming celebrations of the 80th anniversary of Science and Technology at Keio University and mark another step closer to reaching the idea(l) of a discrete International Graduate Keio Architecture Programme. colaboradovic will keep you posted on developments ...

co+labo radović      co+labo = Darko at Up-Close and Liveable Conference in Amsterdam     

Invited by the City of Amsterdam, Darko had an opportunity to speak at Up-Close and Liveable Conference, which was part of a much larger annual event We Make the City Festival (17-23 June 2019). These events bring together huge number of participants in the processes of thinking, making and living that amazing city of Amsterdam, along with several invited international speakers. 
Darko's main contribution was to the sessions Access to Housing - focusing at (re)development strategies for new and existing neighbourhoods, and the vibrant City Index discussion, which addressed both the excitement and dilemmas associated with application of such tools in city planning. But, the most interesting and inspirational part of the Festival was in a variety of interactions between  participants from all walks of life provided by this truly public forum which was exploring what matters in (urban) life - a set of co+labo themes par excellence.