Research Article
A Pedagogic Approach Serving Inclusive Design
Samia Gallouzi*
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2024
Pages:
39-53
Received:
12 June 2024
Accepted:
8 July 2024
Published:
23 July 2024
Abstract: This paper presents an architecture teaching approach intended to final year architecture students, which is based on a human-centered design perspective, while respecting environment in all its compounds. The present work claims, as a hypothesis, that to design inclusive projects, it is worthy to develop in future architects’ capacity to analyze and reconcile both environment requirements and users’ needs as well. The large array of environment key elements and the complexity of users’ global apprehension, make it crucial for the future architects and urban planners to control the appropriate set of analysis methodologies and put to contribution the most efficient design tools. The pedagogical approach we deal with in this article, educates students in empathy, listening, and developing an open-mindedness that according to this study, allows them design better inclusive spaces. I am adopting such a vision for several years now, and I am experimenting pedagogical strategies and tools accordingly, either within the final year Architectural Design Studio I share with other colleagues, or during the Seminar I offer to the same audience. In trying to subscribe to a perspective of action research and reflexivity, I chose to present in this paper the analysis of four architectural dissertations addressing inclusive design concerns. This analysis aims to fathom how experienced analysis tools, such as SWOT grid, urban transect and qualitative social survey, as well as design tools, such as sequential approach of space, functional analysis and value creation tools, may help final year architecture students better analyze and design inclusive projects.
Abstract: This paper presents an architecture teaching approach intended to final year architecture students, which is based on a human-centered design perspective, while respecting environment in all its compounds. The present work claims, as a hypothesis, that to design inclusive projects, it is worthy to develop in future architects’ capacity to analyze a...
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Commentary
Sustainability, Beauty, and Power in Architecture
Lucia Benkovičová*
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2024
Pages:
54-63
Received:
26 August 2024
Accepted:
7 September 2024
Published:
26 September 2024
Abstract: The essay deals with the relationship among (total) power, beauty, and sustainability, which is considered an integral part of architecture and town planning for the future. Although beauty (architecture) is closely related to the good that stimulates our desires, it is often distorted by the construct of power. Sustainability, beauty, and power are all relative, multifaceted, and challenging also in the field of constructions. Ever since the times of primordial human communities and civilisations, beauty and power have been consciously or accidentally connected, and this also applies to their connection to architecture. It is the bearer of both of these nouns. It demonstrates power, warns against it, pleases human senses through beauty and mutual proportional relationships, protects people, but it can also be a symbol of destruction, resistance. At the same time, it is a practical tool and means of expression capable of carrying a certain message, information. The paper delves into deep philosophical contemplations of the three main topics and shows their complicated ties, based on the insights of the most important world and local savants of all times, speaking different languages, and offering different cultural perspectives on the issue. History is confronted with the present and implications the future are presented.
Abstract: The essay deals with the relationship among (total) power, beauty, and sustainability, which is considered an integral part of architecture and town planning for the future. Although beauty (architecture) is closely related to the good that stimulates our desires, it is often distorted by the construct of power. Sustainability, beauty, and power ar...
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