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With the digital environment, the capacity to communicate and be connected beyond the narrow economic, political and social dimensions has increased. Are the conditions for closing universities across the world in 2020 delineating the system of architectural education as confinement or liberation? Searching for answers, we take into account not only the conditions currently emerging in the world, but rather emulate the stage of life that reveals the conditions which produce the world. Accordingly, this presentation discusses new educational contexts for the post-Covid age and investigates alternatives to the traditional studio teaching. It provides a theoretical insight into how knowledge is used as an approach to online teaching and what alternative pedagogies are applicable against the backdrop of the escalating large-scale crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. This presentation takes a series of architectural programmes and workshops performed at European universities and across the United States that test alternative educational methods. By examining the relationships in the production and ways of disseminating knowledge across diverse platforms, I hope to discover how the current unstable and unpredictable educational context regenerates virtuality, instrumentalities and intelligences to maintain its vital capacity unaffected. This comprehensive approach will provide new ventures into speculating the spaces of virtualisation, confinement and liberation in the encounter between the real and virtual worlds.

In the search for ways to overcome the negative connotations of applying characteristically traditional practice methods in the current regulation of spatio-visual parameters of the urban environment, we are moving towards discussing alternative 'architecture of relations'. The paper elucidates how film may offer an alternative position in architecture, where urban spaces are thought and designed in closer relation to the potentials of film to manipulate reality, change the mode of perception, provide vision and reconstruct unconscious impulses of the metropolis. The experimental designs show how resonating records of space, time and movement through space may simulate the mapping impulse that inspires an alternative approach to designing spaces. My approach relies upon various knowledge production platforms to detect temporal filiation between cinematic and real space. They are indicated here in the context of postmodern discussions to uncover a new interaction point between cinema and architecture, in order to support time-based modes of reception of architectural and urban ideas.