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Working Papers: Regulating Architectural Education

In India, a shake up is currently going on over how education in architecture is to be regulated. Unfortunately the debate focuses more on the question of 'who' will regulate, and is a dispute over claims to positions of authority. This paper is an attempt to shift the gaze from established positions of authority, and focus on the core issues involved: what is important in education, why we should regulate it, and how we should regulate it.

More important, this paper is not put forward as an authoritative word on the subject. It is offered as a raw draft that is released into the public realm so that others may also graft their thoughts onto it.

  1. control-ae-1 > PREAMBLE - THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER
  2. control-ae-2 > WHY REGULATE AT ALL?
  3. control-ae-3 > THE PURPOSE OF COLLEGES OF ARCHITECTURE
  4. control-ae-4 > WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH REGULATION RESTS?
  5. control-ae-5 > THE REGULATION PROCESS
  6. control-ae-6 > THE VISION DOCUMENT
  7. control-ae-7 > COMPETENCIES OF THE REGULATOR

Key issues now are:

  • Technology: how do people participate in the development of this. We need to develop some kind of an idiot proof guide that does not intimidate with any techie phrases or issues - or else people will tune out and say this is something estoric only for geeks.
  • Traces: There should be some way of people leaving traces of their participation. As traces accumulate, as numbers mount, it becomes more difficult to ignore. So if we want this to be also heard in the corridors of power we need to give this some thought.
  • Publicity: How do we spread awareness that this document exists and people can participate in the making of it. Probably we need to identify at least one person in every major city who will initiate a word-of-mouth campaign to spread awareness in the local colleges and local community of architects.

Context...

  • "curriculum: Architecture Education (M.Arch)": Authors: TVB-SHS et al

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