Opening up design studio education using blended and networked formats

The ‘Tutorless’ Design Studio: A Radical Experiment in Blended Learning

This paper describes a pedagogical experiment in which a suite of novel blended learning strategies was used to replace the traditional role of design tutors in a first year architectural design studio. The pedagogical objectives, blended learning strategies and outcomes of the course are detailed. While the quality of the student design work produced by the blended learning design studio was i...

A New Paradigm for Design Studio Education

There is a feeling among many design educators today that the discipline has reached a crisis in its development, and that change is needed immediately in the way that design educators articulate their epistemology and their methodology. The architectural studio can be seen as the model for design education, and its culture is exemplary. Donald Schön has often argued that the professional educa...

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Teaching in a Software Design Studio: Implications for Modeling Education

This paper reflects on Lancaster University’s software design studio, an approach for teaching software engineering that favours practical experimentation over traditional lectures. The studio has been running for two years at Lancaster. In the paper, we reflect on how students have used modeling as part of the studio experience. Our findings show that, given the freedom, students make heavy us...

Rethinking HCI Education for Design: Problem-Based Learning and Virtual Worlds at an HCI Design Studio

The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and t...