Initial roundtable outline by Bharat Dave

 Fellow CAADRIA participants, 
 
 I am writing to you for input in a special
 request CAADRIA has received from the Indian Council of Architecture
 (CoA) which as a statutory body "regulates" architectural
 education. CoA has asked CAADRIA "to recommend a roadmap ... on
 the use of Information Technology in architectural education and
 practice." In response to this request, Anand Bhatt- our host
 for this year's conference in Delhi, has asked me to convene a
 roundtable discussion to formulate CAADRIA's recommendations. 
 
 I am proposing that we meet as a group with all interested attendees to
 the conference in the afternoon of 30 April (the last day of the
 conference). I suggest the following as a survey of possibilities and
 key questions for this group discussion.
 
 * Broad principles underpinning design computing education 
 * how they are reflected in courses/units at undergraduate levels 
 * postgraduate areas of specialization (now and 5-10 years horizon) 
 * place/structure of research degrees (useful, necessary, ...) 
 * teaching/research quality assessment frameworks 
 * infrastructure and staffing (academic/technical) issues 
 * expenditure/capital issues 
 * mechanisms for sharing ideas and resources 
   (Internet, Open courseware, Open source) 
 * non-traditional and trans-disciplinary opportunities 
   (multimedia, film and animation which is getting big in India) 
 * any others you can suggest? 
 
 I request a few lines for all of the above
 items from your institutional (or national or regional association
 such as ACADIA, eCAADe, SIGRADI) perspective. We will circulate
 collated responses in advance of the discussion. And then discuss and
 elaborate each one as needed when we meet. Hopefully it will allow us
 to draft and recommend possible road maps for use by CoA and the
 Indian institutions. 
 
 Please (a) confirm if you will
 participate in this discussion, and (b) email your brief responses to
 me for the above by Thu., 21st April. I or Anand will be in touch
 with more details. Apologies for the short notice but it would be
 good to have even draft notes from you. 
 
 Thanks and best
 regards, 
 
 Bharat Dave, The University of
 Melbourne, Australia