Tag: pedagogia
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We don’t have all the answers – we explore together
Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Marius Grootveld. LA: How does granting students autonomy over their research trajectories impact motivation, critical engagement, and the coherence of studio discourse, and how should this autonomy be balanced with structured guidance? MG: At the beginning of each studio, I try to instil a sense of responsibility in the students…
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Crush-up: collaborations for architectural futures
Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Ignacio Borrego LA: Which challenges – both within the physical context and the wider natural environment – ought contemporary architectural design studios to engage with, and why are these concerns pressing for the formation of tomorrow’s architects? IB: We believe at our department (CoLab – Collaborative Design Laboratory) at the…
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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…
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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.…
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Il laboratorio di progettazione. Note per un progetto didattico
Come si progetta un laboratorio di progettazione?Per rispondere a questa domanda bisogna prima capire cosa sia il laboratorio e quale sia la sua specificità rispetto alle altre forme di insegnamento immersive, esperienziali e interattive che sono storicamente consolidate in questo campo. Tra storia e teoria, normativa e pedagogia, il volume prova a dare una definizione…
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The pedagogy of the complete gesture
The philosophy of the gesture originates within American pragmatism, whose essential characteristic is that it is an anti-dichotomous philosophy, standing against the distinctions between description/norm, body/spirit, mind/brain, theory/practice, and so on – distinctions rooted in Cartesian and Kantian culture. Of course, we are talking about a certain interpretation of Descartes and a certain interpretation of…
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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…