SEIAA
INTRODUCTION The Social and Environmental Impact Academy for Architects (SEIAA) is an Erasmus+ project that was centered around innovative teaching formats to educate responsible architects that have the skills and knowledge to support a transformation towards a sustainable society. From 2020 until 2023 the University of Liechtenstein (LI), the Hasselt University (BE), the Bergen School of Architecture (NO) and the Royal Danish Academy (DK) shared their transformative teaching formats, based on which, each of them organized a five-day workshop focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the workshops twenty students worked in five mixed groups, each consisting of one student from every university. The workshop programs depended on the teaching format of the university as well as the needs of its context. All workshops included a collaboration with actors outside the university campus and took place in real life locations. SEIAA was guided by the following questions: • • • •
How can we as architects and architecture students tackle global challenges? How do we get from an output-oriented to an impact-oriented design? How do we foster social engagement and selfinitiatives in architecture studies? How do we build an ecosystem of changemakers to support each other?