The International Conference on Architectural Education with the theme of “Unspoken” is going to be held in the Faculty of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University in Gazimagusa (Famagusta), North Cyprus, in April  14 – 15, 2022  .  The meeting is organized with the intention that scholars, practitioners and students will come together for discussing architectural education from various perspectives.

Under this scope, The second International Conference “Unspoken Issues in Architectural Education”, delightfully welcomes interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners and students from all around the world working in the disciplines of design, architecture, interior architecture, art & architectural history, engineering, urban studies, cultural studies, sociology, environmental studies, and pedagogical studies, for proposing papers and meeting in North Cyprus, in April 2022.

This conference intends to lead the discussions on various critical issues in architectural/interior architectural education, with the main themes of “Diversified Mediums”, “Dynamic Philosophy”, and “Contradictive Education”. Toward these main themes, the main objective of the conference is to investigate and disseminate key challenges of architectural/ interior architectural education in present time such as; irrelevance of architectural education to the real world, effects of media, working or designing for the poor, disaster management, climate change, fuel poverty, price of energy, conflicts and wars, number of architects and architectural schools, questioning the methodology of teaching in architecture and many more unspoken issues. 

*All papers presented in the conference will be published in a proceeding book/CD. 

• Emerging concepts and unpredictable/unprecedented issues in architectural education

• Technology (New technologies) integrated architectural/ Interior architectural education

• The role of national/international /internal/external certifications in education of architecture/interior architecture

• Climate action

• Contextual /regional/local /effects in architectural education / interior architectural education

• Architectural education for conflicted fronts / disaster management / refugee crisis

• Architecture/interior architecture for the poor / social housing

• Architecture/interior architecture for dis/ability

• Implicit learning and education; the hidden agenda

• Extracurricular activities / informal education

• Pre-undergraduate Education (for Architecture/Interior Architecture)

• Ideology/beliefs and architectural education

• Integrating social justice into education

• Art and Design in Action

• Provoking curriculums and education culture

• Ground-up envisioning of architectural education

• Creative design process and creative product

• Challenges and creative solutions

• Disparities/Differences between status of architectural education and profession

• Who should teach architecture? / Who should teach interior architecture?

• Pedagogy for career activities

• Acquisition of new data: for future of both profession and architectural/interior architectural education

• Reassemble of core values in architectural education

• Setting new standards, rules or norms for the profession

• Principal responsibilities of architectural education