Associate professorship in Accessibility, Inclusive Design, and Architecture

Associate professorship in Accessibility, Inclusive Design, and Architecture

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK) invites applications for a permanent full-time position as an associate professor with a particular focus on accessibility, inclusive design, and architecture. Based on the United Nations' headline for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, 'Leaving no one behind', the associate professor is to conduct research into inclusive design and accessibility, contributing to ensuring that tomorrow's architects and designers create solutions for all. The position is a collaboration between KADK and the Bevica Foundation.

We are looking for a visionary professional profile who is dedicated to delivering results and disseminating knowledge, and who can help develop and rethink KADK's efforts within accessibility, inclusive design, and architecture. In parallel with teaching and research, the candidate is to manage the school's collaboration with the Bevica Foundation and strengthen our other networks and collaborations within the field – both nationally and internationally.

The teaching part of the position is primarily associated with the Master's degree programme Spatial Design, but may also involve teaching within other Bachelor's and Master's programmes. In addition to this, the candidate is to manage the continued development of teaching formats within inclusive design for the cross-disciplinary teaching at the Institute of Architecture and Design as well as within the Bachelor's degree programmes at the School of Architecture and the School of Design.

The Bevica Foundation is a commercially operating foundation whose vision is to help people with reduced mobility achieve the greatest possible independence. See: https://bevica.dk/. The Bevica Foundation will fund the research part for a three-year period. This is a full-time position, but the candidate will be expected to participate in procuring external funding that can contribute to funding employment after the three-year period.

The vacant associate professorship, which is affiliated with the School of Architecture and the Institute of Architecture and Design, should ideally be filled as of 1 September 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Institute of Architecture and Design

The Institute of Architecture and Design is a cross-disciplinary educational and research environment. Taking its starting point in a Danish tradition for working with design in a spatial and architectural context, the institute has an ambition to set a new agenda in the development of business and competence areas for architects and designers.

Sustainability and social awareness have a key place as socially relevant guiding concepts for teaching and research at the institute, whose subject fields are related to production, consumption, market and society, where it is necessary to accept responsibility and take a stand on resources and social issues.

The institute consists of two Bachelor's programmes, four Master's programmes, and a professional Bachelor's programme. These form the framework for the professional research and development environments that cut across design and architecture.

At the institute, teaching and research focus on architecture, strategic design and entrepreneurship, spatial and interior design, and furniture, textile and clothing design.

Furthermore, the Craft – Glass and Ceramics programme at KADK, Bornholm, and the School of Architecture's IT and drawing teaching also form part of the institute.

The Master's degree programme in Spatial Design trains design and architecture students. The programme has approx. 90 Danish and international students spread across two year groups. Teaching is conducted in English. Further information about the programme is available here: https://kadk.dk/en/programme/spatial-design-0.

About the position

The position as an associate professor will consist in scientific and/or artistic research, teaching in accessibility and inclusive design, and administrative work.

Based on the subject fields of accessibility and inclusive design, your tasks will include, among others:

• Teaching, teaching planning and appertaining administration in connection with KADK's programmes and interdisciplinary teaching in relation to accessibility and inclusive design.
• Supervision, examinations and external examination work as well as specialist assessment work.
• Scientific and/or artistic research, including publishing and scientific dissemination within the position's focus area in collaboration with relevant external institutions, companies and networks nationally and internationally, as well as with the other research and development fields at the institute and across KADK as a whole.
• Visionary and productive teamwork in the planning of future research and development projects, including active participation in applications for external funding and fundraising for the institute's activities.
• Participation in a number of KADK's committees and possibly in collegiate bodies.

You will also be expected to participate in cross-disciplinary collaboration through teaching and research in collaboration with KADK's other institutes and staff, including contributing to the content and development of the cross-disciplinary core subject teaching at KADK, especially in relation to accessibility and inclusive design, and possibly other tasks.

Your research focus will be accessibility, inclusive design, and architecture. In addition to this, the institute's objective is to continually develop and implement learning formats that can change students' – and thereby future architects' and designers' – mindset in terms of inclusion and contribution to the United Nations' general objective for sustainable development: Leaving no one behind.

Your teaching focus will be within accessibility, inclusive design, and architecture, interior and spatial design as well as the implementation of knowledge about learning formats related to inclusive design within a number of the institute's programmes and in the cross-disciplinary teaching at the School of Architecture and the Institute of Architecture and Design.

Qualification requirements

You have a relevant education at Master's degree level as a minimum and a PhD degree or scientific qualifications at PhD level.

Your experience and professional qualifications are, as a minimum, at the level that can be achieved based on a satisfactorily completed period as an assistant professor, i.e. you have completed a period as an assistant professor or in a similar way acquired qualifications corresponding to or above this.

You can document that you have conducted research at an international level within accessibility and inclusive design, practised original artistic research at a high international level, further or innovatively developed the subject area and/or have achieved a significant architectural career at a high level.

In addition, you have experience with teaching and supervision at Bachelor's and Master's level, including studio-based teaching and teaching within accessibility and inclusive design, and you have received supervision, educational upgrading and a positive written assessment of your teaching qualifications. KADK also requires candidates to have completed and passed a teacher training course, and to provide documentation for this. In exceptional cases, exemptions can be granted from the teacher training course requirement, if you can document that you have completed and passed another pedagogical education from a recognised educational institution, e.g. as a teacher or MA in Education. As supervision at PhD level forms part of the position, positive importance will be attached to experience with this.

In the overall assessment for the appointment to this position, particular importance will be attached to qualified efforts and new developments within the teaching area.

As KADK focuses on research and teaching collaboration both internally and externally in relation to business, public institutions and other higher education establishments, it will also be an advantage if you can document experience in the development, financing and management of major externally funded research projects and projects affiliated with business collaboration.

Inclusive design is an internationally rooted subject area, which is developed, in teaching as well as research terms, through international networks and collaborations. Positive importance will be attached to your ability to document participation in international networks and collaborations.

What we offer

We offer a creative, dedicated, developing and visionary educational and research environment. The job involves contributory influence, responsibility and the opportunity to leave your mark on research and teaching. We value good collegial collaboration with room for mutual inspiration and professional discussion.

Salary and employment conditions

Employment and remuneration will be in accordance with the agreement in force between the Ministry of Finance and a number of organisations under the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) for academics in public service. It will be possible to negotiate qualification supplements depending on your competences and experience.

Employment will also be in accordance with the applicable job structure for artistic and scientific staff at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Aarhus School of Architecture and Design School Kolding – Executive Order no. 92 of 24 August 2015.

The position is a full-time position with an average of 37 work hours per week, and it includes research and teaching as well as administration to a limited extent. The distribution between research and teaching will initially be 40/60. The distribution between the different tasks may vary according to KADK’s requirements, and you may be asked to undertake other official tasks.

Sideline occupation will be accepted to the extent that this is compatible with handling the job as an associate professor.

Application

Please forward your motivated application, updated CV, educational diplomas, documentation for compliance with the qualification requirements listed above, a description of your research plans, a complete list of your published works, and examples of the works you would like to emphasise (however, max. seven works). Finally, you should enclose material that can shed light on your teaching qualifications, e.g. a portfolio. Please feel free to document any projects from architecture or design practice that you might have. Any former associate professor assessment(s) should also be enclosed.

The application with appertaining appendices should be forwarded electronically via the button 'Søg stillingen' (Apply for position) below, to reach KADK no later than Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 12.00 noon Danish time.

Supporting appendix material that cannot be forwarded electronically along with the application should be forwarded by mail in four copies to reach KADK before the application deadline to the address below:

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

Attn.: Lykke Cooper

Philip de Langes Allé 10

1435 Copenhagen K

Denmark

Marked "Associate professorship in Accessibility, Inclusive Design, and Architecture"

Applications and application material received after the application deadline will not be included in the assessment.

Please note that the position is being advertised and will be filled in accordance with the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science's 'Executive Order of 12 April 2019 on the employment of artistic and scientific staff at the higher artistic educational institutions within the Ministry of Higher Education and Science's area'.

The appointment as an associate professor will therefore be based on a concrete assessment by an expert assessment committee. The assessment committee will conduct their assessment based on the qualification requirements listed in the job advertisement and on the entire application material. In your application with appendices, you should therefore ensure that you document your compliance with the qualification requirements described in the job advertisement.

Application procedure (shortlisting)

After the application deadline, the Head of Institute selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the selection committee. The selection is based on an overall assessment of which applicants best meet the criteria in the job advertisement based on the submitted application material. All applicants will then be notified whether their application has been selected for assessment, and the selected applicants will be informed of the members of the assessment committee. The assessment committee will assess the selected applicants in relation to the specific position. When the committee has completed its assessment, each applicant has the opportunity to comment on the assessment.

Further information

Information about qualification requirements, the application process and the e-recruitment system can be obtained by contacting HR Partner Lykke Cooper by email to [email protected], or by tel.: +45 4170 1695.

Information about the academic content of the position can be obtained by contacting Head of Institute Irene Lønne by email to [email protected], or by tel.: +45 4170 1754.

General information about KADK and the Institute of Architecture and Design can be found at www.kadk.dk.

Applications are invited from anyone interested, regardless of age, gender, nationality, race, religion or ethnicity.

About KADK

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK) is an internationally recognised academy of arts, which educates professionally creative graduates to the highest level, and develops new knowledge that creates value for society and the labour market. KADK is a government institution under the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, and it has approx. 1,700 students and 350 full-time staff equivalents. Read more about KADK at our website www.kadk.dk.

Kilde: Jobnet.dk