Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy

This book explores diverse approaches to questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies. It acknowledges the physical, intellectual, and cultural characteristics of a site and encourages students to question its history, boundaries, posture, and situational aspects. It offers innovative approaches to scholarship of teaching and learning with respect to diverse readings of site within design education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 126 pages
Publication date: 12 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into a comprehensive exploration of diverse approaches to questioning, critiquing, and communicating about the site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies. The authors employ the term "site" to encompass a range of complex, established, or pre-existing conditions, such as a setting, atmosphere, or area, which serve as a framework for reading, interpreting, relating to, and engaging with in order to redefine or create in response to a design prompt. By recognizing, accommodating, and empowering the physical, intellectual, and cultural characteristics of a site, students engage in critical inquiry that challenges the history, boundaries, posture, and situational aspects of the place. Such explorations foster a deeper understanding of the site and its potential to influence design throughout the iterative creative process.

Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy contributes to the growing body of literature on design studio pedagogy by presenting a collection of essays that challenge conventional notions about what constitutes a site and its unique characteristics. It raises a series of pedagogical questions regarding how sites can be interpreted and introduced to design students in diverse ways. This study offers chapters that delve into the themes of site, memory, and lived experience; explore multi-scalar perspectives on site; explore sensory phenomena in interior design as a means of connecting to site; explore alternative approaches to engaging with site for learning sustainable principles; and introduce unconventional forms of site as catalysts for creative endeavors. The book offers innovative approaches to scholarship of teaching and learning with respect to diverse readings of site within design education.

Weight: 417g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032345420