OBEL AWARD Teaching Fellowships

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Established to enhance the debate and learnings of the OBEL AWARD’s yearly themes, the teaching fellowships provide new opportunities for universities and professionals to work together on pressing issues facing people and the planet.

The aim of the OBEL AWARD Teaching Fellowships is to bring the professional and academic realms closer together by supporting professionals to teach in an academic setting. The OBEL AWARD Teaching Fellowships also seek to grant flexibility to institutions of higher education to establish new courses. The subject matter of each course is related to a theme of a past OBEL AWARD. For 2024, the themes center on cities or adaptation.

The purpose of the fellowships – three designated for the 2024 edition, one each in designated countries in Asia, Africa, and Australia – will support the teaching of new courses within an official program at an accredited academic institution by knowledgeable, practicing professionals with at least 5 years’ experience.

Illustrating the goal of bringing new voices into academia, the applications must be submitted jointly with the individual who will teach the course(s) and the host institution, thus showing dedication to and support of the objectives of the OBEL AWARD Teaching Fellowship.

Three fellowships will be awarded in 2024; one each in (certain countries) Asia, Africa, and Australia. With a grant of up to €75,000 each, for teaching to begin in 2025.

The joint online application from a university(faculty, school, or department) and the potential teaching fellow, must be related to one of the themes of recent OBEL AWARDs:
- Seminal solutions to the challenges facing cities
- Adaptation as related to coastal resilience

The following fellowship goals should be considered:
- To encourage curiosity in students about the major issues facing architecture as reflected in the themes of the OBEL AWARD.
- To assist academic institutions in creating relevant and impactful content and pedagogies.
- To provide opportunities for academic institutions to explore new themes and include new voices on their faculty.
- To bring the professional and academic realms closer together through collaboration and the Fellowships.
- To provide an opportunity for professionals with at least five years’ experience to take time off from regular duties to teach and share their knowledge through course(s) they have developed.
- To seek to create a community/network around the themes of previous OBEL AWARDs.