DESIGN STUDIO PEDAGOGY: Horizons for the Future
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson (editors).
ISBN: 1-872811-09-04
The Urban International Press
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Excerpts from the Introduction by Ashraf M. Salama and Nicholas Wilkinson
Titled: Legacies for the Future of Design Studio Pedagogy
"………Contemporary societies are in a continuous process of transformations and learning systems should respond to the changes associated with these transformations. Design and built environment professions are no exception and thus corresponding changes in education are crucially needed. There are continuous attempts to massage and modify design studio teaching practices, to re-configure the structure of studio content, and the way in which knowledge is delivered and experienced. However, consensus is lacking on the issue of what changes and developments in studio pedagogy will best meet the needs of design professions while supporting the aspirations of contemporary societies. In response, Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future presents thoughts, ideas, and experiments of educators of different generations, different academic backgrounds, who are teaching and conducting research in different cultural contexts. It simply probes future universal visions within which the needs of future shapers of the built environment can be conceptualized and the design pedagogy that satisfies those needs can be debated. Since education is the cornerstone of any design profession, since the ‘approach to’ and the ‘content of’ that education is the bedrock for creating responsive built environments, and since the design studio is the backbone of architectural education, it is imperative that design studio pedagogy needs to be encountered in its broadest sense. As well, it is essential to deal with the subject as a rich field of research whose knowledge base, content, methods, tools and techniques can be examined and questioned.
…………This book addresses academics, practitioners, graduate students, and those who make decisions about the educational system. It offers a web of experiences and thoughts while laying the foundation to debate aspects, rituals, and future visions of studio pedagogy and their impact on design professions. This is not all; its value lies in the fact that it does not only provide visions —from different parts of the world-- on the body of knowledge required for successful studio teaching, but introduces actual experiences that would help transform this knowledge into guiding practices. Such visions and experiences represent prospects for future design studio pedagogy articulated in a conscious endeavor toward the betterment of the built environment: Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future."
From the Back Cover
This groundbreaking book is a new comprehensive round of debate developed in response to the lack of research on design pedagogy. It provides thoughts, ideas, and experiments of design educators of different generations, different academic backgrounds, who are teaching and conducting research in different cultural contexts. It probes future universal visions within which the needs of future shapers of the built environment can be conceptualized and the design pedagogy that satisfies those needs can be debated.
Addressing academics, practitioners, graduate students, and those who make decisions about the educational system over twenty contributors remarkably introduce analytical reflections on their positions and experience. Two invited contributions of. N. John Habraken and Henry Sanoff offer visionary thoughts on their outstanding experience in design pedagogy and research.
Structured in five chapters, this book introduces theoretical perspectives on design pedagogy and outlines a number of thematic issues that pertain to critical thinking and decision making; cognitive and teaching/learning styles; community, place, and service learning; and the application of digital technologies in studio teaching practices, all articulated in a conscious endeavor toward the betterment of the built environment.
Contents
Introduction: Legacies for the Future of Design Studio Pedagogy (P.3)
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson
Introductory Invited Visionary Essay (P.11)
To Tend a Garden- Thoughts on the Strengths and Limits of Studio Pedagogy
N. John Habraken
Invited Voice of a Three Decade-Experience (P.21)
Community Based Design Learning: Democracy and Collective Decision Making
Henry Sanoff
Chapter 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Positions
Introduction (P.41)
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson
Educating the 21st Century Architect: Complexity, Innovation, Interdisciplinary Methods, and
Research in Design (P. 47)
Michael K. Jenson
Knowledge, Skills, and Indoctrination in Studio Pedagogy (P.63)
Anu Yanar
Creativity, Science, and Architecture: The Role of Research in the Design Studio (P.75)
Yasser Elsheshtawy
Vitruvius in the Studio: ____ What is Missing? (P.91)
Neçdet Teymur
Architecture as Initiatory Knowledge: Architecture as Language of Peace (P.111)
Donatella Mazzoleni
Chapter 2: Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Studio Pedagogy
Introduction (P.125)
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson
The Design Studio: A Site for Critical Inquiry (P.131)
Malika Bose
Decision Making in Design Studios: Old Dilemmas – New Strategies (P.143)
Nisha Fernando
A Structured Content and a Rigorous Process Meet in Studio Pedagogy (P.153)
Ashraf M. Salama
Teaching Studio Exercises to Help Students Manage Distributed Design (P.167)
Stephen Kendall
Heuristic Formations: Design as Empirical Making (P.177)
Ryan E. Smith
Chapter 3: Addressing Cognitive Styles in Studio Pedagogy
Introduction (P.187)
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson
Design Studio Pedagogy: From Core to Capstone (P.193)
Yasser Mahgoub
Building the Studio Environment (P.201)
Louise Wallis
Using Representational Techniques of Installation Artists in Architectural Design Education (P.219)
Jeffrey Haase
Emotions of Architecture Students: A New Perspective for the Design Studio (P.233)
Noam Austerlitz and Iris Aravot
Chapter 4: Community, Place, and the Studio
Introduction (P.249)
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson
Material Culture and Design Education (P.255)
Richard Kroeker and Virajita Singh
Creative Transformations: The Extent and Potential of a Pedagogical Event (P.269)
Ruth Morrow
Community Processes: The Catalytic Agency of Service Learning Studio (P.285)
Jeffrey Hou
Content, Scale, Method, and the Role of Place: A Design Teaching Approach (P.295)
Hülya Turgut Yıldız
Chapter 5: Digital Technologies and the Studio
Introduction (P.309)
Ashraf M. Salama & Nicholas Wilkinson
The Realm of Information Technology in Architectural Education: A Partnership Approach (P.313)
Rabee Reffat
Codification of Site Related Knowledge in Virtual Design Studios (P.325)
Mirjana Devetakovic Radojevic
An Agenda for Education: On the Relationship between Architectural Design Education, Technology of Architecture, and Information Technology (P.345)
Luca Caneparo
Contributors (P.365)
Index (P.373)
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