Integrating technology in design studios - research led and practice based approach

Basavapatna Kumaraswamy, Satish and Humphreys, Andrew 2015. Integrating technology in design studios - research led and practice based approach. Presented at: Architectural Technology: Design Futures Reflecting and Projecting, London, UK, 10-11 December 2015.

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Abstract

Plymouth University offers two undergraduate programmes, BA Architecture and BA Architectural Technology and the Environment (ATE), with two sets of aspirations and different learning outcomes to satisfy the needs of different professional validating bodies. Recently, key design modules are restructured to bring these two disciplines together and allow them to retain and celebrate their own identity. This collaborative learning process starts with a celebration of the differences – coming from the final year dissertation, where, architecture (ARC) students will be more theoretical and ATE students will be more diagnostic ‘case study’ informed. This body of knowledge is then overlaid with a live project as a scenario. The studio project is undertaken in groups of both ARC and ATE students both working on each other’s skill sets to produce a knowledge exchange in studio, which ‘reconstructs’ practice. The collaboration allows for each discipline to understand, celebrate and exchange different knowledge sets. This paper, through the recent students works, demonstrates the successful collaboration of the BA Architecture and Architectural Technology students, which is underpinned by the practice led teaching in the second year and research informed and technology driven learning process in the final year ATE programme.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Architecture
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 February 2023
Date of Acceptance:	10 December 2015
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2023 15:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157325

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