This qualitative research initiative explores teaching and learning nuances of design processes and practices as encountered and documented within a specific design research studio at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Built Environment School of Architecture and Design, Sydney Australia. Technical skills versus creativity and the manner the two may coexist or not within the setting ...

INTRODUCTION This paper aims to identify the process of aesthetic education in design studios. Design studio is a significant place, where students of interior design and architecture learn the multifaceted nature of design (Bhatia, 2006; Findeli, 2001). Students’ design solutions actually occur in studio, and the essence of the studio is the discussions regarding the various aspects of their s...

hyperdiamonds are covalently bonded fullerenes in crystalline forms, more or less related todiamond, and having a significant amount of sp3 carbon atoms. design of severalhypothetical crystal networks was performed by using our original software programscvnet and nano-studio. the topology of the networks is described in terms of the netparameters and several counting polynomials, calculated by ...

Web 2.0 is beyond a jargon describing technological transformation: it refers to new strategies, tools and techniques that encourage and augment informed, creative and social inter(actions). When considered in an educational context, Web 2.0 provides various opportunities for enhanced integration and for improving the learning processes in information-rich collaborative disciplines such as urba...

without the surrounding environment of a site, architecture loses its full meaning. in the evolutionof the design process, a site's environment should be understood as the integral factor within which a designed productor artifact is expected to perform. the environment is not of secondary priority. every building is intertwined with itscontext; context being its physical, visual and ecological...

The architectural curriculum has been based on the design studio class model which focuses on learning by doing and all processes and procedures of problem solving are transmitting trough lectures and critique sessions. The tutorial system in design studio classes is same as masterApprentice. So students learn during a communication between students and teachers and also between students. By th...

Especially in the last two decades, there has been a call for change design studio education. Today, growing body of unconventional teaching approaches is challenging traditional setting. Given central role instructor studio, each adopts an approach according to their disposition on and architecture, as well view education, some extent, they reflect course. This also enables students explore di...

The Virtual Design Studio is comprised of a team of designers from various locations for which the communication is computer-mediated. It allows participants who are geographically dispersed to interact in a design environment and collaborate on the same project without leaving their own environment. The ever-increasing frequency of distant engineering requires an efficient and common language ...

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...