The University of Luxembourg is organising for the first time a summer school in architecture. The Schengen Summer School: Architecture & Migration which will take place from the 1 to 10 September 2016, is a pilot project of the Master in Achitecture that will be launched in autumn 2017 at the University of Luxembourg.

The Schengen Summer School will look into the issue of the impact that the various forms of migration might have on urban planning and architecture and how architects and city planners can get involved in approaches to integrate migrants and refugees.

The 10-day workshop will be split into two phases:

• During the first, analytical phase, experts from the various disciplines (architecture, urbanism, geography, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, history, political science…) will review and discuss migration processes in a global, European and regional context.
• A second phase will emphasis the development of various architectural and urban planning approaches to the issue of migration, less as a supposed solution but more to show possible fields of activity. Migration impacts many aspects of architecture: the question of how we live together, whether we jointly design and use public spaces and spaces to work or how a joint identity can be forged.

International lectures and critics include Matthias Armengaud (University Fribourg), Véronique Patteeuw (ENSAP, Lille), Arno Brandlhuber (Academy of Fine Arts, Nürmberg), Friedrich Bokern (Relief & Reconciliation for Syria, Beirut), Aglaée Degros (Artineering, Brussels) and Anh-Linh Ngo (editor of the magazine Archi+). They will be joined by national experts such as Shahram Agaajani, Metaform, François Valentiny, Valentiny hvp architects, and Birte Nienaber, professor for political geography.  

The summer school is organised by Carole Schmit, guest lecturer at the University of Luxembourg and Florian Hertweck, professor for architecture and course director of the new Master programme in architecture.

The summer school will take place in Schengen, a small town where the agreement on the borderless Europe was signed – a historic achievement of the European Union that is increasingly challenged. The Schengen Summer School is designed for current students and graduates in the subjects of architecture and urban planning, but also interested students with background in geography or social sciences may apply. All courses are taught in English.

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Deadline for registration: 30 July 2016