Congratulations to Charity Edwards for being awarded the 2024 AASA Education Prize!
We are thrilled that Parlour collaborator and good friends Charity Edwards is the recipient of the 2024 AASA Education Prize. In 2024, to coincide with the culmination of “The Wellbeing of Architects: Culture, Identity + Practice” project, the Prize rewarded academics who have demonstrated leadership in fostering a positive culture in architectural education and support for student wellbeing. (Initiated in 2019 and awarded again in 2022, the AASA Education Prize has previously been focused exclusively on Early Career Academics.)
From a total of eight submissions, Charity and her team was awarded the Prize for their project, The Salon. The project, which focused on the changing nature of architectural pedagogy and the critique session, sought to engage with the multitude of student/staff/external critic input and participation, enacting a dynamic environment to grow confidently. One of the key features of The Salon is to empower student cohorts that activate well-being and push the crucial role of the studio crit session in new directions; it stood out for its robust approach to rethinking the critique process with a focus on inclusivity and equity through Salon workshop activities between studio groups.
Three other finalists were also shortlisted: Dr Endriana Audisho (UTS) with BEYOND CRITIQUE: A Collaborative Approach, Dr Parisa Ziaesaeidi, Rob Meyerson and Vesna Trobec (Western Sydney University) with Studio Indigenous: Budj Bim, Drawing a Cultural Landscape, and Mia Kealy (University of Tasmania) with The Care–full Reading Collective. Congrats!
Learn more about the prize and projects through the AASA website.
