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.  

 

Massimo Santanicchia, PhD 

Head of the Department of Architecture 

Sahar Ghaderi, PhD 

 Programme director of the Master in Architecture 

Curator of the exhibition 

Jan Dobrowolski 

 

Students 

Ágúst Skorri Sigurðsson  

Heida Sigrún Pálsdóttir  

Hildur Elísabet Árnadóttir  

Rakel Kristjana Arnardóttir 

Sigrún Perla Gísladóttir 

Una Mjöll Ásmundsdóttir 

 

Mentors 

Andri Gunnar Lyngberg Andrésson 

Garðar Snæbjörnsson 

Massimo Santanicchia 

Sahar Ghaderi 

 

Vernissage: May 11th at 4pm - 6pm

Opening hours: 11th to 19th May from 13:00 to 17:00