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Boncompagni Manuscripts: Present Shelfmarks
(2021-12)A list of the current locations for the 600+ history of science manuscripts in the nineteenth-century Boncompagni collection, dispersed by auction in 1898. -
Clouds of Wood: A Colombian Design-Build Experience
(2022)The idea of complexity in the teaching and practice of architectural design is linked to formal processes or their programmatic features, leaving aside relevant aspects of the complete cycle of an emergent building: the ... -
Coalition Building and Discomfort as Pedagogical Strategies
(2022)Innovative design solutions come from inclusive and diverse design teams (Page 2008). In this paper, I reflect on how such insights can be used in developing pedagogical approaches that use coalition building, knowledge ... -
Community Engagement and Service-Learning Reciprocity
(2022)As part of the University of Oklahoma’s Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, the Urban Design Studio prepares graduate students from diverse backgrounds in its Master of Urban Design program to practice as urban ... -
Contested Territories: Evaluating the Limits and Liberties of Design (and Designers) in Public Space
(2022)Recent accounts in Boston highlight tensions among individuals experiencing homelessness, individuals seeking treatment for substance use disorder, service providers, advocates, residents, and business owners in geographies ... -
Design Research Methods—Applied Theory and Studio
(2022)Today, the curriculum at schools of architecture is generally subdivided into design studio (practice) and the adjacent scientific or scholarly subjects ranging from natural sciences to technology to humanities, often with ... -
Developing Intent and Application Through Virtual Design-Build
(2022)The process of design-build links intention and application within a curriculum that is difficult to replicate in a traditional educational studio. While most effective in the analogue world, design-build can be simulated ... -
Doing the Right Things
(2022)In John Tabita’s essay “Doing Things Right versus Doing the Right Things,” he discusses two different approaches in the business management world: tactical thinking and strategic thinking. This opens up an interesting ... -
Engagement as Theory: Architecture, Planning, and Placemaking in the Twenty-First Century City
(2022)Our recent book, "The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America" (University of Chicago Press, 2021), details how participatory design and community engagement can lead to democratically planned, ... -
Experiences of Aging in Society Project, July 2023 Report
(2023-07)The Experiences of Aging in Society (EOA) project is investigating how societal beliefs about aging and older adults may affect health. Ageism is believed to increase risk for many health problems commonly thought to be a ... -
Freedom and the Politics of Space: Contemporary Social Movements and Possibilities for Antiracist, Feminist Practice in U.S. Architecture
(2022)Students and practitioners of architecture challenge the hegemonic Whiteness, maleness, cisheteronormativity, and capitalist control of these disciplines as a means of democratizing and decolonizing practice to create ... -
Igniting Community Through Engaged Teaching
(2022)Much of what we consider to be traditional teaching practices has been formed within the limits of a classroom setting, buried within a disciplinary focus. Yet our students face great societal, economic, and environmental ... -
Introduction: "Do Not Try to Remember": Pedagogy in Transition
(2022)This introductory section of the "Do Not Try to Remember": Pedagogy in Transition portion of the Schools of Thought proceedings contains an overview of the session's chairs, its themes, and included papers. -
Introduction: Decolonizing Architectural Pedagogies
(2022)This introductory section of the Decolonizing Architectural Pedagogies portion of the Schools of Thought proceedings contains an overview of the session's chairs and included papers. -
Introduction: Engaging Design-Build Pedagogy
(2022)This introductory section of the Engaging Design-Build Pedagogy portion of the Schools of Thought proceedings contains an overview of the session's chairs, its themes, and included papers. -
Introduction: Participatory Design and Community Engagement
(2022)This introductory section of the Participatory Design and Community Engagement portion of the Schools of Thought proceedings contains an overview of the session's chairs, its themes, and included papers. -
Oblique Pedagogical Strategies: Improv and Speculative Realism in Support of Social Justice Design Education
(2022)This paper acknowledges the extent to which the majority of people who work in the field of architecture are white, examines the way that whiteness in the prevailing charity-service model of community-engaged design ... -
Pseudo-Masha’allah, On the Astrolabe: A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation
(2022-05)The astrolabe was the most important scientific instrument in the Middle Ages, and the treatise ascribed to Māshā’allāh (but not actually by him) is the most important text on the subject. It was much copied and survives ... -
Putting Participation into Practice: Strategies for Evolving Architecture
(2022)For decades, schools of architecture have included hands-on education in their curricula in the form of design-build studios; often these studio experiences are guided by a social mission and employ participatory methods. ... -
Reviewing Digital—Critiquing the Static Crit
(2022)This paper focuses on challenging design pedagogy to question its ingrained reviewing methods that require the production of static media. This examination looks at new methods of digital design practice that allow a student ...