Impacts of Pandemic on Urban Pedagogy, Research, and Practice: Online Studio Pre-Requisites, Opportunities, and Pitfalls

Online studios gained popularity in the wake of spread COVID-19 pandemic. Physical “lockdown” Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) forced Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan to allow universities carry on learning and examination through online mode. HEC developed protocols consultation with university administrations recommended faculty training, procedural formulation, technology development requirements for continuation classes examination. This initiative motivated departments schools architecture different undertake as well studios. Council Architects Town Planners (PCATP), accreditation body, laid down further conducting juries. Thus, between spring 2020 2021 an studio pedagogy emerged. The current study brings together thinking, experiences, viewpoints a review webinars documentation, conducted along interviews professionals, academics, students. main objective this research is verify significance vis-à-vis juries physically. It also aims delineate pre-requisites, opportunities, risks involved context Pakistan. Students’ feedback importance preference or physical was collected survey face (F2F) discussion. SPSS used correlate variables. would help instructors learners improve their capabilities, equipment, environment, daily discipline. Moreover, it expected contribute discussion National Curriculum towards more realistic, relevant, resource efficient means architectural education.