Design is a social phenomenon and researchers suggest that social interaction, negotiations and communication between designers are essential to initiate creativity. Within the design studio environment, a number of factors affect the healthy social interaction and design negotiations, such as the teaching style of tutors and the culture that governs a design studio’s environment. This may in t...

The design studio is integral to design education. It plays an important role in the training of future designers, representing a key space for experimentation and creative activity. In contrast to other elements of design education, the studio gives students first hand experiences of the design process and the practical aspects of designing. It introduces them to the concept of creativity and ...

This paper presents an analysis result of collaborative studio course that engages students, faculty and practitioners. The collaborative studio is one of the two sequential capstone courses. As the capstone studio experience of students’ academic design career, these two capstone courses encourage students’ initiative and independence in design. Students are required to choose a practitioner a...

The most commonly used space in architectural education is the studio, which functions both as a learning centre and as a complex social organization. The behavioural elements in the design studio are analysed with respect to the social processes of environmental psychology; namely privacy, personal space, territoriality and crowding. A case study was conducted to evaluate the di¡erences betwee...

The “Algorithms Studio” project explores a novel, studio-based approach to teaching an undergraduate course on computer algorithms. Inspired by the design studio commonly used in architecture education, the approach emphasizes conceptual design activities in which students use sketch-based algorithm visualization technology to create their own visual representations of the algorithms under stud...

The Space&Virtuality studio engage in research on the spatial organization of design and use of information technology. The research approach of the Studio is characterized by a commitment to user involvement in design, an experimental approach to the exploration of technological possibilities and a reflective research practice developed in dialogue with practitioners.