Design studio education seeks new ways of relating itself to real-world issues. Composing students in teams and organizing their learning process around design competitions was proposed as an approach. The study focuses on single-semester after-disaster experience and examines the practice's traces on learners. The qualitative search is based on the following issues;
(i) the studio curriculum and pedagogy,
(ii) the process and end-product features and
(iii) the post-experiment experiences of learners about the studio process.
The investigation on studio curriculum and pedagogy was based on the author’s re-reading of the school’s approach to studios, studio’s approach to pedagogy, meeting notes on the processes, decisions on parameters, studio calls, and the poster of the related semester. Final projects were analyzed via the author’s re-reading of the competition briefs, step-by-step development stories of each project, the obtained features of final projects, and the jury responses to the final products. Interviews with learners revealed how the studio helped individuals understand and respond to teamwork and competitions, and how architecture can help/support people’s health and well-being during and after a disaster.
The study underlines the potential of competitions in architectural design education; activating a learning society around a specific problem that affects everyone. The inquiry pins collaboration as the most crucial parameter shaping the studio.

Authors:
Pinar Di̇nç Kalayci, Gazi University, Turkey

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Pınar Dinç Kalaycı is professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Gazi University, Turkey. Her research fields are design studio education,architectural competitions, architectural psychology and theory and criticism in architecture.

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https://studiothinkimagine.wordpress.com/

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