Event-Stop | Sevde Gül Polat – Yusuf Yılmaz
Manifesto
School is not a place where knowledge is transferred unilaterally, but a place where knowledge is produced and learning practices are gained.
An architect is not a person who constructs something or manages the construction of something, but it is a person who develops sensitivity towards the universe, the society, space, city, as well as people. The architect is the one who can discuss these issues through different tools and who is capable of creating a qualified discussion environment upon them.
Architecture education cannot be confined to a closed field. The act of learning is shaped through different activities in urban space. These activities can take place both in indoor and outdoor environments. That is why the school is a “stop” that concentre activities.
In this stop, there is neither a teacher nor a learner. There are pathfinders, creating their ways, and mentors, sharing their own experiences.
Architecture can produce the “new” only through the mediation of experiences to which all the actors contribute. Architecture education is planned upon and shaped through the production and eventually puts forth a work which appears not only as an object but also as an idea.
Architecture education cannot be restricted to a particular period or pattern. Learning and transformation last lifelong. That is why architectural education should be released from the conventional procedures, like succeeding from a specific number of courses or accomplishing predetermined internships, leading to the issuing of a diploma by the faculty. What is valuable is the transformation and gains throughout the process rather than a piece of paper.
Event-Stop gives the individual the freedom to design and manage hir* own learning processes along with the freedom to record these processes with hir* own techniques. It is open to everyone all the time. School is not a place where knowledge is transferred unilaterally, but a place where knowledge is produced and learning practices are gained.
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