Collaboration between architects and planners in an urban design studio: potential for interdisciplinary learning

The ID-Online Asynchronous Learning Network: a 'Virtual Studio' for Interdisciplinary Design Collaboration

Starting in 1996, the authors, Surya Vanka and Jim Budd developed ID-Online, an Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) for Industrial Design Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The primary objective of ID-Online was to deliver enhanced design instruction via asynchronous access to design resources and enhance network-based communication between instructors and students. Th...

International Collaboration in an Industrial Design Studio*

This paper describes networking in Industrial Design education between students from a number of international universities that worked independently on a vehicle-design project. The results were presented in a joint exhibition, held in Tokyo Japan, to leading Asian vehicle manufacturers such as Nissan, Mazda and Isuzu motors. The paper describes the networking that occurred between the univers...

an appropriate model for exchange rate predictability in iran: comparing potential forecastability

nowadays in trade and economic issues, prediction is proposed as the most important branch of science. existence of effective variables, caused various sectors of the economic and business executives to prefer having mechanisms which can be used in their decisions. in recent years, several advances have led to various challenges in the science of forecasting. economical managers in various fi...

Climate Change Adaptaion, Urban Flooding and Water: Old Problems, New Challenges for Planners and Architects

Climate Change Adaptation, Urban Flooding and Water: Old Problems, New Challenges for Planners and Architects

The effects of global warming on sea level rise is one of the most challenging immediate futures faced by planning and the design disciplines. These effects can lead to grave conseTuences in coastal cities and is a growing field for policy and plan making in the 8nited 6tates and across the globe. -oao Pedro Costa brings us this debate from an (uropean perspective, discussing the challenges and...