Intercultural awareness for architetural students

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Introduction Week Bouwkunde
What is a good architect?
Mind Maps for
Bouwkunde

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Internationalisation
of the university

In the last few years, the number of
international students at BK has risen,
from a mere 38 in 2003 to 185 in 2010.
Currently, approximately 22% of all
Masters students are internationals.

Internationalisation:
student body
teachers
subjects

The ‘emerging global university’ entails ‘a
curriculum permeated by awareness that
political, economic, social, and cultural
phenomena in any part of the world can
no longer be fully understood in isolation’.
(http://opac.yale.edu/president/message.aspx?id=7).
Richard C. Levin, former president of Yale University:

“Increased interdependence requires
that the leaders and citizens of
tomorrow have cross-cultural awareness
(…). In both their private and public
lives, the students of today will find that
the outside world cannot be ignored”.

“To an unprecedented extent, the
careers of the next generation will be
global in scope (…). Students need to
be prepared for interaction around
the globe, in the personal challenges
they confront as well as the public
challenges we face together”.

what does internationalisation
mean for the culture of the
institution?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/why-doesnt-new-orleans-look-
like-amsterdam/402322/
Specific knowledge
(like the Dutch experiences in water
management…

http://www.haacs.nl/vinex-ypenburg-revisited/
…and housing) is highly appreciated in an
international arena.

By being able to put local knowledge in an
internationalised context, typically Dutch
experiences are highlighted and more valued.

Several international PhD candidates and master
students conduct comparisons between Dutch
experiences and experiences in their own
countries. This is a very effective way to
disseminate ‘Dutch knowledge’.

but there are
challenges
ahead

• Diverse architectural and study traditions
• Different understandings of what an architectural
education entails
• Multiple understandings of the role of architects in
society
• Diverse (cultural) attitudes towards learning
• Multiple interpersonal relationship patterns

Exploring different
aspects of an
architectural education
through…

• Visual brainstorm
• Interpersonal communication
(explicit knowledge)
• Inventorisation device

The ‘secret’ of mind
mapping
relationships constructed between concepts
and ideas being unfolded and ‘spelled out’
EXPLICITLY.
Drawing these relationships like the branches
of a tree helps us visualize the organic
relationship they have with each other.

Networks of concepts
but ideas and concepts are not like the branches
of a tree.
they are arranged in networks of relationships.
mind maps could look like more like spiderwebs.

relationship image and
text
drawing icons and avatars helps construct
a better relationship between visual
perception and intellectual understanding.
images reinforce and complement text
and vice-versa.

You have to work out the
relationships between text and
image and unfold the concepts
1. It ’s not a list!

Design information for
impactful and effective
communication
2. Try Total Design

3. Better together
Knowledge is
interpersonal and
happens in
communication

4. Follow the Polder Model!
Consensus seeking and
participatory (like Dutch society!)
Democracy is not the will of the
majority but the clever and fair
management of differences.

Skills
Tools QualitiesKnowledge
Values

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