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D.K. Shehayeb (Reviewer):
"IMPAQT. Integrative Multidisciplonary People-centered Architectural Qualification & Training";
Group review about IMPAQT-Project, A. Mahdavi, C. Berger; Bulletin of People-Environment Studies, 2018-06, p. 25 - 27.

(no german version)
Worldwide, the role of the architect has been shrinking. In Egypt, standardised designs led by real estate developers are built following narrow definitions of function, restricting innovation, hardly sensitive to city dynamics, and blind to contextual factors not only in the ambient environmental sense, but in its socio-physical entirety. Similar phenomena manifest themselves in different parts of the world as well. This 3-year project co-funded by the European Commission aims to breed architects capable of initiating a paradigm shift; to become more integrative, multidisciplinary, people-centred, and technologically agile, utilizing ICT enabling technology in a context-sensitive manner. Re-instating people at the centre, redefines the substantive knowledge base of an architect; drawing upon fields like environmental psychology and environment-behaviour studies, redirects design processes and methods to include architectural programming, particapatory design, and post-occupancy evaluation, and innovates in pedagogies of the the learning process. A consortium of highly esteemed partners in their fileds specialization, from Europe and Egypt, come together to realize this vision through several outputs.

(no german version)
Worldwide, the role of the architect has been shrinking. In Egypt, standardised designs led by real estate developers are built following narrow definitions of function, restricting innovation, hardly sensitive to city dynamics, and blind to contextual factors not only in the ambient environmental sense, but in its socio-physical entirety. Similar phenomena manifest themselves in different parts of the world as well. This 3-year project co-funded by the European Commission aims to breed architects capable of initiating a paradigm shift; to become more integrative, multidisciplinary, people-centred, and technologically agile, utilizing ICT enabling technology in a context-sensitive manner. Re-instating people at the centre, redefines the substantive knowledge base of an architect; drawing upon fields like environmental psychology and environment-behaviour studies, redirects design processes and methods to include architectural programming, particapatory design, and post-occupancy evaluation, and innovates in pedagogies of the the learning process. A consortium of highly esteemed partners in their fileds specialization, from Europe and Egypt, come together to realize this vision through several outputs.