Tag: esperienze

  • Teaching repetition

    Valentina Noce in conversation with Andreas Lechner. VN: The first thing I wanted to talk to you about is my struggle when teaching between two kinds of approaches. The first one is almost like a psychological, psychotherapy approach to students – where you act as a kind of disturbing observer. You let the students do what…

  • Designing transitions: transdisciplinary urban and territorial pedagogies

    Konstantinos Venis in conversation with Nancy Couling and Tommaso Pietropolli. KV: The selection criteria were the characteristics and curriculum of your programme. It is a transdisciplinary joint programme focusing on design as a tool of synthesis in a transdisciplinary environment, integrating urban studies, postcolonial thought, the Anthropocene, and interdisciplinary approaches in site-specific work across urban…

  • Teaching architecture in a fragmented world

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation con Wolfgang Brune. LA: What issues in the built and natural environment should an architectural design studio address today? WB: The question is related to all the well-known general issues that we have to deal with today: Sustainability, recycling, emissions reduction, resource conservation, social responsibility and so on. That’s very true.…

  • The capacity for (general) vision as a necessary specialism

    I will begin with a statement that I know today risks being seen as outdated: the design studio is and must continue to be the “backbone” of architectural studies. […] Not even the recent reform of the degree classes introduced by Ministerial Decrees no. 1648 and no. 1649, respectively for bachelor’s and master’s degrees, in…

  • Architecture in a small school

    A contribution that seems interesting to me, regarding the experimentation that can be carried out within Design Studios, is the one we have been developing for several years now in the Master’s Degree course active at the Mantua Territorial Campus. […] The course was conceived around a prevailing theme concerning the relationship between architectural design…

  • The project for a new degree program

    For the new Master’s degree program in Architecture for Communities, Territories and the Environment at DIARC, we chose to begin by outlining the fields and contexts in which an architect can operate today, beyond traditional areas of action, focusing carefully on the present, on the ongoing social and cultural changes, on humanity and the environment;…

  • Notes for a systematics of the educational project

    I have always been deeply interested in discussing pedagogy; I believe it’s crucial to reflect on this topic. Not only from a theoretical standpoint but especially starting from how I personally have addressed practical problems that have arisen in this field across the various universities where I have taught and in relation to the role…

  • Experimental pedagogy and design studio

    Rethinking pedagogy at an experimental level means renegotiating a field of themes and practices in order to train architects capable of confronting the challenges of the contemporary world and projecting them into the future. This entails reestablishing a creative balance between the construction sector and architecture as one of the principal inventive practices contributing to…