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[Design] learning by design-simulating workplace collaboration
Studio as a model for collaboration
Dr Jacky BowringAssociate Professor and Head of School
School of Landscape ArchitectureLincoln University
Design Studio:• Origins in atelier-based training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in
Paris, 19th Century – tutors introduce the language of design and model behaviour, values, design strategies, and thought processes of a designer
• Students work in a shared space, often with 24 hour access – immersive, flexible environment, modelling the professional office setting
• Activity / problem-based learning
• ‘Crits’ – ongoing critique throughout the project, which often run over many weeks, sometimes up to a semester long
• Interaction and integration paramount
• Both a space and a method – involves sustained proximity in a shared space, interaction, collaboration
48 Hour Challenge, July 2011• 15 teams of five working together for 48 hours to develop
designs for the quake-hit central city • Professionals, academics, students working together
Master Class, July 2013• Perry Lethlean, RMIT Melbourne / Taylor Cullity Lethlean• NZILA Professionals and SoLA students
Multi-institutional Collaborative Studio• Counter to the competitive model of tertiary institutions • Students and staff from architecture schools around New
Zealand• Based at CPIT and the School of Landscape Architecture –
sustained co-location, mixed teams, high staff to student ratios, intensive environment
Charrette • Very intensive design studio – often to solve a specific problem
(from French for ‘cart’, into which completed designs were placed)• Recently – combined charrette run by Neil Challenger (Lincoln
University) including students from around the world
Presentation Day• Each semester studios
conclude with shared presentations, food, exhibitions, involving all students from all years of the School
• The Studio – as space and process – is the core of the culture of the School of Landscape Architecture
Teaching ratios
First and second year 1:15
Third year 1:8
Fourth year final semester 1:4
Design Lab
• Uses the studio model in terms of spatial proximity and continued engagement
• Collaborative between postgraduate students, students and staff, students and professionals
• ‘Lab’ signals the research focus – design as research is an emerging method internationally
Inspiration: Stanford University d.school
Stanford University d.school