The Timişoara architecture biennial (BETA) is an euroregional platform for dialogue and collaboration, whose main purpose is to improve the processes through which we build our cities.
BETA 2016 aims to generate a responsible dialogue regarding architectural education, ongoing education and the architectural practice, as well as to stimulate the involvement and professionalise the dialogue and
collaboration methods between the representatives of the administration, the
professional body and the civic society.
Workshop
07
OCT
09
OCT
Workshop: LIGHT EDU
In the framework of LIGHT EDU Symposium, two members of the interdisciplinary research programme Configuring Light will coordinate a workshop on social research in design, an interactive process...
Guided tour
08
OCT
TA: Urban detectives. Tour for children
Expedition dedicated to children, organized together with the Association De-a arhitectura, based on the adaptation of the first tour for adults using educational materials for students.
Guided tour
08
OCT
TA: The public squares and the city map. Heritage on hold
Our path takes us through one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city through Unirii, Sfântul Gheorghe, Libertății and Victoriei squares, while we discuss important milestones of their evolutio...
Conference
13
OCT
Pedagogical models
The studio method, or that of the integrated workshop, is considered the most important pedagogical tool for architecture education. We will investigate models that focus on theory, othe...
Conference
14
OCT
Educational systems
The event aims to connect the challenges and strategies of the academic environment with those of the profession. In a time when all roads lead to a reconciliation between the two, we wonder if ...
Conference
14
OCT
The future of architecture: Professional Organisations vs. Academia
This event brings forward the current standpoint of some reference professional organizations concerning the future of the architecture profession and education.
Guided tour
15
OCT
TA: Urban detectives. Tour for children
Expedition dedicated to children, organized together with the Association De-a arhitectura, based on the adaptation of the first tour for adults using educational materials for students.
Guided tour
15
OCT
TA: The habitation of old. Elisabetin and its parks
The path through Elisabetin neighborhood will include Balcescu Square, Carmen Sylva and Gheorghe Doja Parks and Sfânta Maria and Alexandru Mocioni squares, talking about their history and evolut...
Guided tour
22
OCT
TA: The city and the Water. The banks of the Bega canal
This tour aims to make use of the new bicycle infrastructure along the Bega river's banks in order to visit the buildings, bridges, neighborhoods and parks that surround it.
Guided tour
29
OCT
TA: Properties and inhabitants. Family Tree
The course contains a portion of the Mihai Viteazul, C.D. Loga and 3 August 1919 boulevards, presenting an image from the past of the houses and their former respectful owners.
Guided tour
05
NOV
TA: Properties and inhabitants. Family Tree
The course contains a portion of the Mihai Viteazul, C.D. Loga and 3 August 1919 boulevards, presenting an image from the past of the houses and their former respectful owners.
Guided tour
12
NOV
TA: The city and the Water. The banks of the Bega canal
This tour aims to make use of the new bicycle infrastructure along the Bega river's banks in order to visit the buildings, bridges, neighborhoods and parks that surround it.
Guided tour
19
NOV
TA: The habitation of old. Elisabetin and its parks.
The path through Elisabetin neighborhood will include Balcescu Square, Carmen Sylva and Gheorghe Doja Parks and Sfânta Maria and Alexandru Mocioni squares, talking about their history an...
Conference
23
NOV
Jury conferences
Located at the intersection between EDUCATION, PREOFESSION and CITY, the first three jury conferences will focus especially on the theoretical and critical research of architecture.
Guided tour
26
NOV
TA: The public squares and the city map. Heritage on hold
Our path takes us through one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city through Unirii, Sfântul Gheorghe, Libertății and Victoriei squares, while we discuss important milestones of their evolutio...
Conference
01
OCT
Opening event
The opening event of the Timișoara's architecture biennial BETA includes a series of micro-presentations held by the organizers and their partners, as well as the vernissage of the BETA 2016 com...
Exhibition
03
OCT
14
OCT
Opening: LIGHT EDU exhibitions
LIGHT EDU Symposium 2016 is showcasing four exhibitions documenting lighting interventions in the built environment, dialogue-engaging narratives on light and darkness and perceptual exploration...
Conference
04
OCT
05
OCT
Symposium: LIGHT EDU
LIGHT EDU Symposium is an event initiated from the need for an educational platform for information exchange in the field of technical and architectural lighting in Romania.
Conference
28
OCT
The future of architecture: Practitioners
This event aims to present a series of personal interpretations and visions that some european architects have regarding the future of architecture, today.
Workshop
29
OCT
Architect's backstage
The workshop aims at supporting workshop participants in developing new business models for their architecture practice, exploring possibilities arising from new forms of collaboration with othe...
Conference
04
NOV
The future of architecture: Cultural organizations
This event aims to select a few events that are reference points in Europe and that manage to promote quality architecture, and to see what their view is on the future of our profession.
Workshop
05
NOV
Creative industries
The workshop is focused on methods to form and maintain a functioning and productive team of cross-field professionals whom can develop truly collaborative projects in different areas of...
Conference
18
NOV
19
NOV
BIM Conference + Workshop
A clear and unbiased guidance from industry experts on how BIM is used on projects and in practice and the challenges of implementing the BIM concepts in mainstream construction industry.
Conference
25
NOV
Jury conferences
Included in the PROFESSION category, the last 3 jury conferences sustain the BETA 2016 competition, in an attempt to outline a series of attributes at the euroregional scale, from the architectu...
Exhibition
26
NOV
Closing event
The last event of the Timișoara's architecture biennial BETA 2016 aims to outline the main conclusions of the first edition, being a synthesis event.
Campaign
05
SEP
26
NOV
Urban View
Write a short story about how you see it, remember it or imagine it! Share your story with the place or with the people you wrote about and do not forget to send it to us too: we will pick 10 st...
Competition
15
SEP
21
OCT
The Equestrian Statue – A Contemporary Subject (?)
The contest launched by the Art Encounters Foundation, with the support of Timișoara City Hall and the Local Council, as part of the Timisoara Biennial of Architecture BETA 2016, tries to find c...
Exhibition
08
OCT
Opening: Yes, but there is a problem
The opening event of „Yes, but there is a problem” invites Julia Oravecz and Samu Szemerey to present urban planing strategies and the people involved in their design and application.
Exhibition
09
OCT
30
OCT
Yes, but there is a problem
The exhibition analyzes urban projects and policies from the CEE region that support more flexible, incomplete, and possibly more resilient urban systems.
Exhibition
13
OCT
Opening: Energy spots
The founders of BINA will open the discussion on the main topics of the exhibition: Bartleby in Belgrade, In-Between spaces, Model of temporary housing, Between projection and execution, Urban Y...
Exhibition
14
OCT
25
OCT
Energy spots
The exhibition Energy Spots focuses on the quickly-developing Belgrade, being an attempt to point, on a small scale, to particular spatial and energy spots of the city.
Exhibition
17
OCT
20
NOV
The BETA 2016 competition exhibition has been moved in the public space
The presence of the BETA 2016 competition exhibition in the public space relies on the collaboration with various locations from the city center that have adopted the exhibition panels in their ...
Workshop
20
OCT
21
OCT
Art in the public space
Masterplan for art is a complex multidisciplinary project for the spatial reading and programming of art in the public space.
Campaign
21
OCT
22
OCT
UrbanEye movie evenings
UrbanEye Film Festival proposes two documentary film nights that bring into question themes such as habitation and urban development. Be it an architectural object, an area or an entire town, th...
Workshop
22
OCT
Urban Game: Yes, but there is a problem
Sinaia Urban Game is a participatory simulation game. Its main goal is to explore the possibilities for participatory design through the extreme version of Central-East European individualism/id...
Conference
27
OCT
Symposium Yes, but there is a problem
The symposium introduces new urban strategies in the perspective of very different actors of city making, from independent expert groups and professional institutions to the public administratio...
Exhibition
27
OCT
Opening: Adaptable city
Levente Polyák, member of KÉK, will make an introduction for the Adaptive City exhibition based on the logics of temporary use and adaptive reuse of vacant buildings and sites.
Exhibition
28
OCT
08
NOV
Adaptable city
The exhibition Adaptable City gives an introduction to the logics of temporary use and adaptive reuse of vacant buildings and sites, discussing its fundamental questions.
Conference
02
NOV
03
NOV
Upgrade My City
Upgrade My City is an event organized with the purpose of identifying, promoting and implementing the ideas that can improve the quality of urban life, while stimulating the large-scale involvem...
Conference
11
NOV
Urban view - Powered by Pecha Kucha
Pecha Kucha presentations have become viral in over 900 cities all over the world - and now, anyone who has ideas about or for the city is invited to present them in this format.
Exhibition
17
NOV
22
NOV
Wooden mirror
Our installation, embodied as a visual alert, aims to bring awareness and provoke constructive debates regarding the condition of our wooden churches and the way they are being cared for, exploi...
Conference
24
NOV
Jury conferences
Through these conferences we intend to talk about models and methods of operating at the city level, which varies depending on the scale, involved actors, duration, as well as other cultural and...
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