University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches of Tower I], untitled. Digital image only of blue ink sketches on tracing paper, initialed,

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Schematic Design Drawing of Tower I Elevation], untitled. Red pencil drawing on vellum, 14x24 inches

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Facade Study of Three-Story Academic Wing], untitled. Black ink sketch on tracing paper, initialed, 12x22 inches

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Facade Study of Three-Story Adacemic Wing], untitled. Digital image only of black ink sketch on tracing paper

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Facade Studies of Three-Story Academic Wing], untitled. Black ink sketches on two sheets of tracing paper with orange, yellow and gray marker coloring, initialed, 18 x 18 3/4 to 18 x 19 1/2 inches

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Site Plan Sketch], untitled. Digital image only of blue ink sketch on tracing paper, initialed

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Site Plan Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, with orange and blue marker coloring, 18 x 25 1/4 inches

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Site Plan Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 23 1/2 inches

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Site Plan Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 18x23 inches

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Site Plan Sketch], untitled. Digital image only of ink sketch on tracing paper

University of Turin, Humanities Faculties Building, Turin, Italy 1989-1990 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Site Plan Sketch], untitled. Digital image only of ink sketch on tracing paper

Della Chiesa di Sant'Eustorgio in Milano : illustrazione storico-monumentale-epigrafica /

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A generative nervous system for the planet

Generative systems are now being proposed for addressing major ecological problems. The Complex Urban Systems Project (CUSP) founded in 2008 at the Queensland University of Technology, emphasises the ecological significance of the generative global networking of urban environments. It argues that the natural planetary systems for balancing global ecology are no longer able to respond sufficiently rapidly to the ecological damage caused by humankind and by dense urban conurbations in particular as evidenced by impacts such as climate change. The proposal of this research project is to provide a high speed generative nervous system for the planet by connecting major cities globally to interact directly with natural ecosystems to engender rapid ecological response. This would be achieved by active interactions of the global urban network with the natural ecosystem in the ecological principle of entropy. The key goal is to achieve ecologically positive cities by activating self-organising cities capable of full integration into natural eco-systems and to netowork the cities globally to provide the planet with a nervous system.

Creating fashion professionals for the 21st century : a tale of pedagogical tensions and emerging challenges

The ‘Fashion Tales’ Conference identifies three fashion discourses: that of making, that of media, and that of scholarship. We propose a fourth, which provides a foundational base for the others: the discourse of fashion pedagogy. We begin with the argument that to thrive in any of these discourses, all fashion graduates require the ability to navigate the complexities of the 21st century fashion industry. Fashion graduates emerge into a professional world which demands a range of high level capabilities above and beyond those traditionally acknowledged by the discipline. Professional education in fashion must transform itself to accommodate these imperatives. In this paper, we document a tale of fashion learning, teaching and scholarship – the tale of a highly successful future-orientated boutique university-based undergraduate fashion course in Queensland, Australia. The Discipline consistently maintains the highest student satisfaction and lowest attrition of any course in the university, achieves extremely competitive student satisfaction scores when compared with other courses nationally and internationally, and reports outstanding graduate employment outcomes. The core of the article addresses how the course effectively balances five key pedagogical tensions identified from the findings of in-depth focus groups with graduating students, and interviews with teaching staff. The pedagogical tensions are: high concept/ authenticity; high disciplinarity/ interdisciplinarity; high rigour/ play; high autonomy/ scaffolding; and high individuality/ community, where community can be further divided into high challenge and high support. We discuss each of these tensions and how they are characterised within the course, using rich descriptions given by the students. We also draw upon the wider andragogical and learning futures literatures to link the tensions with what is already known about excellence in 21st century higher and further education curriculum and pedagogic practice. We ask: as the fashion industry becomes truly globalised, virtualised, and diversified, and as initial professional training for the industry becomes increasingly massified and performatised, what are the best teaching approaches to produce autonomous, professionally capable, enterprising and responsible graduates into the future? Can the pedagogical balances described in this case study be maintained in the light of these powerful external forces, and if so, how?