Tirana ENHR2017 Conference

Reporting Housing Rights, check for the invited speakers. Three different field trips would take place in Tirana.

Join the meetings of (TAW (Tirana Architecture Weeks), for details contact [email protected]

TAW Tirana Architecture Week 2020 organized by Universiteti Polis member of Future Architecture 🇦🇱 🇪🇺
Science and the City | In the Era of Paradigm Shifts

28 September-11 October 2020
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The Calendar of TAW2020

TAW2020 will start in less that one month and today we are glad to share with you the CALENDAR of all the events we have foreseen for you for this year.

As you will see, also for this 2020 we have organized Keynote Lectures, Exhibitions, Social Events, and Workshops led by national and international creatives. We are confident that this program will satisfy even the most demanding palates!

Many other events will come (there is still time before the beginning) and the calendar will be updated with all the latest news and communication.

Furthermore, we remind you that, for the extraordinary situation of this year, we have decided to have a unique fee formula, not considering the position and/or payment time, to guarantee the participation of all you!

So, if you want to get special codes to join every single celebration that will happen during Tirana Architecture Week 2020, please consult the following page:
http://tiranaarchitectureweek.com/registration/

Looking forward to having you with us for TAW2020! An event you will hardly forget!

JOIN US / REGISTER !

TAW Tirana Architecture Week 2020 - organized by Universiteti Polis member of Future Architecture 🇦🇱
Science and the City | In the Era of Paradigm Shifts

www.tiranarchitectureweek.com
www.universitetipolis.edu.al
www.futurearchitectureplatform.org

New Calendar: 28 September - 11 October 2020
Due to the late developments of the Coronavirus crisis and measures taken globally by authorities, we decided to slightly change the dates and selected events to make TAW 2020 as much more resilient possible. So, stay in touch, follow our announcements, and join us!

A Covid-19 pandemics attacks the whole world and dominates our lives during the last months, infecting millions and killing thousands of people.

Meantime, “Self-driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam,” reads a New York Times article of March 19th, 2018, one day after the accident. These are just a few examples among many others of the entanglement of science with life in the contemporary city. In the last thirty years,

The IT Revolution has dramatically changed the urban landscape. The information has become an essential component of a new way of designing and thinking about a new urban environment. A whole generation of architects is introducing and transferring the digital world to a new reality of reactive, sensitive, interactive architectures.

The aim of Tirana Architecture Week 2020 is to draw current research and design practices, as well as theoretical speculations on the relationship between the paradigm shifts in science and urbanism; in other words, about the science and the city. Such mandate will be addressed in multiple scales and contexts, and from different perspectives within different fields of interest, directly or indirectly related to design, architecture, urban studies, sociology, environmental research, engineering, education, and pedagogy. This paradigm shift, led by science in its different forms, has deeply influenced our notion of the city and created a field of rich possibilities to define either the positive or negative impact of this new realm of influence! Stay in touch, follow our announcements, and join us!

Ju lutem mbani maskën në respekt të vetes dhe komunitetit!

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Do ju luteshim të gjkthëve në POLIS që në mbështetje dhe zbatim të masave ligjore që duhet të zbatojmë përkundrejt parandalimit të pandemisë COVID-19, secili prej nesh të respektojë strikt mbajtjen e maskës brenda në POLIS.

Konstatojmë se shpesh ka tendenca nënvleftesimi për respektimin e kësaj mase, si nga ana e stafit ashtu dhe e studentëve/vizitorëve.

Duke ju falenderuar për mirëkuptimin, sigurohuni, që njësia ku gjithsecili prej jush është anëtar, këtën njoftim ta ketë në konsideratë maksimale për veten, stafin përbërës të njësisë dhe vizitorët.

TË SHTUNËN ORA 10.30 @ POLIS
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Ju ftoj në U-POLIS për MARIO BOTA dhe për fillimin zyrtar të TDW Tirana Design Weeks! Mos e humb!
www.tiranadesignweek.com

THIS SATURDAY 14th SEPTEMBER AT POLIS!!

TDW Tirana Design Week organized by Universiteti Polis member of Future Architecture 🇦🇱 🇨🇭
Foreseeing Uncertainty: Design & Non-Normativity!

We are eager to unveil the first name among our International Keynoters!
Mr. Mario Botta will be here in Tirana during Tirana Design Week 2019 to deliver a Keynote on the 14 of September 2019!

Mario Botta is one of the most important architects of his generation and has influenced for over 30 years the Architectural debate. His trademark style can be seen widely in Switzerland particularly the Ticino region and also in the Mediatheque in Villeurbanne (1988), a cathedral in Évry (1995), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMOMA (1994).
In 2014 he was awarded the Prize Javier Carvajal by the Universidad de Navarra.

We look forward to having him here as the Opening Act of our Tirana Design Week event, and we hope to see you all at his Keynote

TDW Tirana Design Week organized by Universiteti Polis member of Future Architecture 🇦🇱
Foreseeing Uncertainty: Design & Non-Normativity!

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS OPEN
Deadline: 15th July

Tirana Design Week 2019 is searching for some young and passionate students to join the Volunteers Team for this year's edition. You will have the chance be in contact with a lot of International Guest and be 'behind scenes' of the most important event related to design in Albania.

Everyone, in and outside POLIS University, who is interested can send an e-mail to [email protected] specifying for what position he would like to apply for.
After we gathered all the application we will set a meeting to know each other and start working together.

Don't miss this chance to be the protagonist!

MOMENT I RËNDESISHËM PËR MATURANTËT!
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Duke filluar nga dita e sotme deri në 25 Korrik të gjithë maturantët kandidatë për studentë në Vitin Akademik 2019 – 2020, mund të kryejnë pagesën pranë zyrave postare ose bankave të nivelit të dytë.

Hapat që duhen ndjekur:
• Identifikohu me numrin personal dhe ID e maturës në portalin https://ualbania.arsimi.gov.al/
• Pas identifikimit printo faturën dhe shko kryej pagesën
• Pasi të keni kryer pagesën pranë zyrave postare ose bankave të nivelit të dytë, ju duhet ta dërgoni pranë shkollës suaj për konfirmim bashkë me faturën që keni kryer pagesën
Kujdes! Kodin që gjendet në faturë ruajeni me kujdes se ju duhet të konfirmoni aplikimin në A2 (i cili fillon në FUND TË KORRIKUT)

Për çdo paqartësi kontakto Universitetin POLIS; një ekip i veçantë punon për MATURËN 2019-2020.
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UNIVERSITETI POLIS - HAPËSIRË PËR MENDIMIN
www.universitetipolis.edu.al

JOIN OUR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE !

TDW Tirana Design Week organized by Universiteti Polis member of Future Architecture 🇦🇱
Foreseeing Uncertainty: Design & Non-Normativity!

International Conference: 19-22 September 2019 Polis

Tirana Design Week (TDW) this year, in 2019, approaches Tirana’s 100th anniversary as the capital of Albania. Comparing photos of a bucolic Tirana in 1920 with what one sees from Polis University’s fourth floor today, inevitably raises doubts about the endurance of design, while conspicuously evincing the fluctuating tendency of what constitutes a norm in a world continuously oscillating between what is desired or imagined as an endogenous equilibrium and exogenous menaces. The objective of Tirana Design Week is to draw current research and design practices, as well as theoretical speculations on the topic of uncertainty and non-normativity in multiple scales and contexts, in and from the city of Tirana, with the latter understood as a dis-position, a tendency to change position.

The significance of addressing such topic from Tirana is that this city is a harsh and unmediated example of what is already a global symptom: a strong contrast between an ideology of normativity on the one hand, and its actual impossibility on the other; between the aim for responsible design practices and ethical boundaries impossible to overcome; between education and merciless economic reason, between standardized production and mass-customized desires, between daily ideologies of inclusivity and an increasingly predominant exclusivity, between plain design narratives and irresponsible political decision making; between expensive normativity affordable only by few, and not-so-cheap sub-normativity for the many; between frenzied building development and destruction of urban artifacts; between ’glittery’ shapes in the center and chaotic sprawl in the periphery; between style and non-style. What happens in-between is dimmed as ‘uncertain’. TDW this year aims precisely to enhance such uncertainty from the perspective of different practices such as design, architecture, sociology, urban and environmental studies, theory and history, innovation, writing, research and pedagogy, among others. Not so much to propose another new agenda - we already have plenty of those, but rather to juxtapose these practices with what is already happening ‘out there’, and speculate how they can potentially inflect, positively or negatively, this ‘out there’: the un-reason of non-normativity and the commodification of normativity.

We invite scientific and applied research papers, posters and round table discussions that research, propose frameworks, and speculate about the issues presented above: those of Un-Certainty and Non-Normativity. The conference consists of four large topics: Research and Methods, History and Theory, Innovative Processes, and Philosophy and Objects. These topics consist of other more focused paper session topics. A paper and poster abstract must be submitted by May 15th. The papers and posters must be submitted by June 30. Both abstracts and papers and posters will be selected according to a peer review process. The papers must not exceed 4000 words maximum, while the posters must be formatted in a A-1 board. For more information see he Conference Table of Contents and submission guidelines. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a dedicated volume and the best one selected to be inserted in the FORUM A+P TDW special issue.

Wishing you an unforgettable event and looking forward to having you in Tirana,

PhD Skënder Luarasi,
PhD Valerio Perna