CA²RE+ Strategic Partnership

The CA²RE+ project began in September 2019 as an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership which builds on the experience of the CA²RE community.

THE CA²RE+ STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IS MADE UP OF 11 HIGHER EDUCATION ORGANISATION PARTNERS

1. University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia), coordinator
2. Aarhus School of Architecture (Aarhus, Denmark),
3. KU Leuven (Ghent, Belgium),
4. Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy),
5. TU Berlin (Berlin, Germany),
6. COFAC – Lusofona University (Porto, Portugal),
7. Hafencity University Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
8. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway),
9. TU Delft (Delft, Netherlands),
10. EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and
11. ELIA

ASSOCIATED PARTNERS

• The ARENA network (individual experts);
• The members of the CA²RE community.

All the institutions involved in the CA²RE community and are not full partners of the CA²RE+ project are respected as associated partners. The CA²RE membership grows as the continuous backbone of the CA²RE+ project. The CA²RE+ partnership feeds the meta-level of the CA²RE endeavours and triggers the CA²RE community development.

Roles of Associated Partners:

• Project monitoring, Scientific Committee membership, peer reviewers of intellectual outputs;
• Invited teachers at ISP activities, contributing to intellectual outputs;
• Self-funded respondents to open calls (selection of the best doctoral candidates and new evaluators from the CA²RE community as additional participants at the CA²RE+ learning teaching training activities);
• Participants at ME events;
• Members of SUSTAINABILITY BOARD.

The backbone of this project is a series of biannual international and intercultural intensive study programmes for doctoral candidates, guided by experienced evaluators from participating universities and invited experts.

The doctoral work-in-progress of 27 Design Driven Doctoral research (DDDr) candidates is evaluated by 18 experienced evaluators through presentations, performances, exhibitions and critical discussions, following six iterative CA²RE+ development steps:

1. observation,
2. sharing,
3. comparison,
4. reflection,
5. reformulation and
6. recommendation.

Each of these steps will take place at an event, at the same location that the CA²RE Conferences take place. A schedule of these events can be found here.

To introduce new experts with lower evaluation experience into the process, JOINT STAFF TRAINING is developed at each venue.

The project objectives are achieved iteratively through the main project steps from observation and sharing, comparison and reflection to reformulation and recommendation:

• to develop a COLLECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH the EVALUATION OF DDDr TRAINING;
• to create EVIDENCE OF DDDr LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND EVALUATION MATERIALS;
• to identify the DDDr STRATEGIES,to explicate the DDDr EVALUATION process and to prepare the DDDr FRAMEWORK and
• to disseminate the CA2RE+ learning-through-evaluation model and its framework.

Publications

Download Strategies of Design-Driven Research - This first book discusses and identifies the long-term development goals & potential of DDDr, examining the potential of DDDr to build bridges between academic research & professional creative practices.