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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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
The Stranger in the Architectural Project on the City
(2022)This paper presents the project “Two Strangers Meet in a Parking Lot” and associated research studios as a case study of decolonized architecture pedagogy. The project conceptualizes the stranger as an alternative architectural ... -
The Architecture Curriculum Between Two Revolutions: From the West to the Islamic Curriculum
(2022)The architectural curriculum in Iran has been changed five times in the last five decades (1963–2017). In each period, efforts to change the content and structure of the curriculum were based on the architectural profession’s ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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: 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. -
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, ... -
The Hidden Ground: Native American Intercultural Relations
(2022)Over the last two decades, a trend has been developing in the design community to promote social equity and emphasize the ethical responsibility of design. Community participation, programming, and post-occupancy evaluations ... -
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. -
Agency in the Education of an Architect: Models of Engagement Toward Empowering Students
(2022)The disparity between education and practice continues to dominate academic discourse, but oftentimes forgotten is the impact that agency plays in architectural education and, in turn, a student’s presence and contributions ... -
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 ... -
Rural Studio and the Front Porch Initiative: The Opportunities and Challenges of Place-Based Research
(2022)Harnessing the applied student research developed through design-build projects at Auburn University Rural Studio, the Front Porch Initiative aims to develop a scalable, sustainable, and resilient process for delivering ... -
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 ...