The Future of Education
Anne K. Kurjenoja
Institution: Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Address: Department of Architecture, Puebla, Ex. Hda. Sta. Catarina Mártir
Postal Code: 72810
Country: Mexico
Anne K. Kurjenoja is the Head of the Department of Architecture and faculty member of the PhD. Program in Creation and Culture Studies of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico, as well as researcher of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
She is an architect, with MSc. in Housing of the University of Technology of Helsinki, Finlandia, today part of the Aalto University, and PhD. in Creation and Culture Theories of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico. Since 1989 she has been part of the full time faculty of the above mentioned university, besides occupying positions such as project leader for campus planning and academic coordinator of the BArch. program in Interior Architecture. In the area of international educational co-operation she has collaborated as Local Coordinator of the Virtual Design Studio with Texas A&M University (2000-2005) and Ball State University, Indiana (2006-2011). She has also been the teacher of groups of architectural students participating to the summer seminar titled "Architecture, Our Environment and The Poetics of Water", at the University of Stanford, California (2001) and to the Landscape Design Workshop at the University of Montreal, Canada (2005-2006).
As a researcher, she has participated to the following projects: "National and Global Repositioning of Mexican Cities to Transnational Problems: Energy, Environment, Migration and Urban Security and Culture" (2016-2018); "City, Capital and Culture: Trends and Strategies of Urban Development in Puebla” (2014-), "Streetscape+Soundscape: Aural Architecture of an Urban Geography” (2011-2014) and "Epistemologies Beyond the Text. Cultural Practices of the Information Age" (2014-2016).
Among her journal articles there are titles such as “Clash between Worldviews through Images: Colonial Maps and Meso-American Codex in the Understanding of Cultural Difference,” Visual Past. A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures 2018, University of Hamburg, Germany (2019); “Art in the Streets of a Shattered City,” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought, 6(1), University of York, Toronto, and “Informal Mexican Urbanity and Subaltern Knowledge: The Case of Xonaca, Puebla.” The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, 15(3), in collaboration with María Emilia Ismael-Simental (2017), and "Cultural Processes, Social Change and Education for Development" (2015), in collaboration with with Ileana Azor-Hernández, in Procedia Journal of Social and Behavioral Science, vol.174. Among her book chapters there are titles such as “Challenges of Architectural Education in Mexico: Facing the Clash between Globalization and Local Realities” in Maureen Ellis (ed.) Critical Global Semiotics, in collaboration with Melissa Schumacher and Edwin González-Meza (in press), and “Female Empowerment and the Habitable Space: Details, Refinement of Elements and Aesthetics of the Everyday” in R. Jain (ed.) Women Empowerment: Global Scenario (2017).
Areas of expertise: Urban studies: peripheries and trans-local cultures; gender studies in architecture; interior architecture, creative economy and contemporary object culture.
She is an architect, with MSc. in Housing of the University of Technology of Helsinki, Finlandia, today part of the Aalto University, and PhD. in Creation and Culture Theories of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico. Since 1989 she has been part of the full time faculty of the above mentioned university, besides occupying positions such as project leader for campus planning and academic coordinator of the BArch. program in Interior Architecture. In the area of international educational co-operation she has collaborated as Local Coordinator of the Virtual Design Studio with Texas A&M University (2000-2005) and Ball State University, Indiana (2006-2011). She has also been the teacher of groups of architectural students participating to the summer seminar titled "Architecture, Our Environment and The Poetics of Water", at the University of Stanford, California (2001) and to the Landscape Design Workshop at the University of Montreal, Canada (2005-2006).
As a researcher, she has participated to the following projects: "National and Global Repositioning of Mexican Cities to Transnational Problems: Energy, Environment, Migration and Urban Security and Culture" (2016-2018); "City, Capital and Culture: Trends and Strategies of Urban Development in Puebla” (2014-), "Streetscape+Soundscape: Aural Architecture of an Urban Geography” (2011-2014) and "Epistemologies Beyond the Text. Cultural Practices of the Information Age" (2014-2016).
Among her journal articles there are titles such as “Clash between Worldviews through Images: Colonial Maps and Meso-American Codex in the Understanding of Cultural Difference,” Visual Past. A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures 2018, University of Hamburg, Germany (2019); “Art in the Streets of a Shattered City,” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought, 6(1), University of York, Toronto, and “Informal Mexican Urbanity and Subaltern Knowledge: The Case of Xonaca, Puebla.” The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, 15(3), in collaboration with María Emilia Ismael-Simental (2017), and "Cultural Processes, Social Change and Education for Development" (2015), in collaboration with with Ileana Azor-Hernández, in Procedia Journal of Social and Behavioral Science, vol.174. Among her book chapters there are titles such as “Challenges of Architectural Education in Mexico: Facing the Clash between Globalization and Local Realities” in Maureen Ellis (ed.) Critical Global Semiotics, in collaboration with Melissa Schumacher and Edwin González-Meza (in press), and “Female Empowerment and the Habitable Space: Details, Refinement of Elements and Aesthetics of the Everyday” in R. Jain (ed.) Women Empowerment: Global Scenario (2017).
Areas of expertise: Urban studies: peripheries and trans-local cultures; gender studies in architecture; interior architecture, creative economy and contemporary object culture.
