The fifth year of architectural education at the Iceland University of the Arts is devoted to further exploring and expanding both the meaning and scope of architecture and architects’ social responsibility.

This is done by creating a learning environment that incites students and their educators to respond to global challenges who is creating conditions to locally engage as active citizens in their communities.

The goal of the architectural department is to support students developing knowledge, skills, trains, attitudes, and behaviors necessary for becoming ethical professionals and cosmopolitan citizens, by advising new political agencies to co-design healthier, safer, and a fairer world, in a changing social, ecological, and political environment.

These exhibited students’ projects speak of architecture that emphasize the plural, collective and collaborative nature of the practice of architecture. Architects can be used in multiple ways; as critical processes of inquiry, as vehicles to raise social awareness, as tools for collective imagination, and as a collaborative project aimed at caring for and repairing the spaces for the common good. These projects use architectures as an instrument for care.

Graduates:

Amal Sneih Abou Farrag

Birta Fönn Kristbjargardóttir Sveinsdóttir

Fred Wilson Hendry Briars

Gísli Hrafn Magnússon

Heiðdís Helgadottir

Helga B Þorvarðardóttir Kjerúlf

Íma Fönn Hlynsdóttir

Laufey Jakobsdóttir

Lárus Freyr Lárusson

Peter Johnson

Samuel Aron Laufdal Guðlaugsson

Sandra Dögg Þorsteinsdóttir

Victor Oli Búason

Curator:
Jan Dobrowolski

Architecture for Sympathy

The fifth year of architecture studies at the Iceland Academy of the Arts is devoted to expanding the meaning and subject of architecture and appealing to architects' social responsibility The program creates an environment that encourages students and teachers to respond to global challenges and offers situations where they can deal with the local environment as active citizens in their community.

The aim of the program is to support students in acquiring knowledge and developing skills that are necessary for responsible professionals and citizens of the world (e. cosmopolitan citizenship). With a new political focus, they have the opportunity to design a healthier, safer and fairer world in an ever-changing social, ecological and political environment.

The works presented to students emphasize the diversity and collaboration that lies in the nature of architecture Architecture can be used in a variety of ways: as a critical research method, as a catalyst for community awakening, as a tool for constructing a shared mind world, and as a collaborative project devoted to caring for and adapting space for the public good These projects emphasize techniques in architecture that foster empathy.

Graduates:

Amal Sneih Abou Farrag

Birta Fönn Kristbjargardóttir Sveinsdóttir

Fred Wilson Hendry Briars

Gísli Hrafn Magnússon

Heiðdís Helgadottir

Helga B Þorvarðardóttir Kjerúlf

Íma Fönn Hlynsdóttir

Laufey Jakobsdóttir

Lárus Freyr Lárusson

Peter Johnson

Samuel Aron Laufdal Guðlaugsson

Sandra Dögg Þorsteinsdóttir

Victor Oli Búason

Curator: 
Jan Dobrowolski