Activities with universities
The America Forum promotes teaching activities between the University of Navarra and the Latin American schools that are members of the Forum. The aim is to promote the exchange cultural and knowledge exchange between schools of architecture and to jointly find possible solutions to future challenges in the different countries.
This is achieved through two activities:
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COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning)
Through which collaborative exercises will be carried out between the University of Navarra and the members of the Forum to respond to the architectural needs of each reality and enhance the learning process of student body.
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Travels in Europe
Through the 'Drawing for Spain' initiative , which will celebrate its next edition in 2025.
COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning)
Thanks to the Americas Forum, the following collaborative exercises are being and will be carried out:
Performance in La Palma
CAMPUS SUMMER UNIVERSITY ON THE ISLAND OF LA PALMA
The 2025 to Isla de La Palma edition of Collaborative Online International Learning(COIL), focuses on the planning of an inter-university campus in El Paso, a municipality on the island of La Palma, affected by the volcanic eruption of 2021, which occurred between September 19 and December 13 of that year, and caused severe material damage and human losses. Since then, the City Council of El Paso and the Cabildo Insular de La Palma have begun a recovery process.
During the last three years, the Navarre School of Architecture has carried out several exercises in the affected area, seeking to provide rehabilitation solutions and generate hope for the island's inhabitants.
Through the Americas Forum, a partnership between the Pan-American Federation of Architects Associations(FPAA) and the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, there is an opportunity to work together in this recovery process, involving universities from all over the world.
The project CT LAB 2025, to be carried out by 5th year students of Degree in Architecture at the University of Navarra, consists of the planning of an inter-university campus to host academic extension courses in the affected area. This campus will be open to universities from different parts of the world, offering a space for study and experience, and promoting international partnership in the recovery of the island of La Palma.
Architecture and depopulation
DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL ARCHITECTURE IN AREAS UNDERGOING DEPOPULATION PROCESSES.
During the 24-25 academic year, an exercise similar to the one carried out by the 5th year Architecture students of the University of Navarra is being carried out in the Villages model promoted by the Xunta de Galicia in order to revitalize the Galician countryside, in partnership with Fundación RIA.
In this new exercise, and in order to obtain a broader vision and address the topic in a more global manner, it is being carried out in COIL format at partnership with the universities that are members of the America Forum.
Each of the participating universities is carrying out the exercise taking as a case study an area in the process of depopulation in their country, so that the analysis and proposals can be evaluated from a global perspective.
The final conclusions will be shared among the different participating universities and Fundación RIA, with a virtual exhibition of all the projects, leaving open the possibility of organizing a physical exhibition and the collective edition of a publication that collects the work developed.
The proposal of the CT Lab to be carried out by 5th year students of Architecture at the University of Navarra will address the rehabilitation of the rural area of Monterrei, a area of great historical interest presided by a castle in the province of Orense.