This September 2016, the University of Luxembourg will be organising its very first summer school in architecture.
The Schengen Summer School: Architecture & Migration is a pilot project of the Master in Architecture which is due to be launched by the University in autumn of next year.
The Schengen Summer School will address the impact of various forms of migration on urban planning and architecture and will examine how architects and city planners can become involved in approaches to integrate migrants and refugees.
Lasting from 1 to 10 September 2016, the ten-day workshop will be split into two phases. The first, an analytical phase, will bring together multidisciplinary experts from fields such as architecture, urbanism and geography to anthropology, history and political science to review and discuss migration processes in their global, European and regional contexts.
The second phase will focus on the development of various architectural and urban planning approaches to the issue of migration with the objective of highlighting possible fields of activity. Migration holds the potential to influence a variety of aspects of architecture, from how we live together to whether we jointly design and use public spaces and spaces to work to how a joint identity can be forged.
International lecturers and critics will include Matthias Armengaud (University Fribourg), Véronique Patteeuw (ENSAP, Lille), Arno Brandlhuber (Academy of Fine Arts, Nürmberg), Friedrich Bokern (Relief & Reconciliation for Syria, Beirut), Aglaée Degros (Artineering, Brussels) and Anh-Linh Ngo (editor of the magazine Archi+). They will be joined by national experts such as Shahram Agaajani, Metaform, François Valentiny, Valentiny hvp architects, and Birte Nienaber, professor for political geography.
The summer school is being organised by Carole Schmit, guest lecturer at the University of Luxembourg and Florian Hertweck, professor for architecture and course director of the new Master programme in architecture.
The background of the summer school will be the small town of Schengen where the agreement on the borderless Europe was signed - an achievement which has come increasingly under threat. The Schengen Summer School is designed for current students and graduates in the subjects of architecture and urban planning, as well as interested students with background in geography or social sciences. All courses are taught in English.
The deadline for registration is Saturday 30 July 2016. More information and registration can be found at http://schengensummerschool.uni.lu.
