Integrating students through a multidisciplinary design project
conference contribution
posted on 2023-09-01, 14:02authored byAlison Pooley, Nadeeshani Wanigarathna
Design as a multidisciplinary endeavour needs to be reflected in
learning and teaching strategies within higher education. This paper discusses
a design project where quantity surveying (QS) and architecture students
worked together on a proposal for a prototype Almshouse for the 21st century.
The two groups of students worked alongside a client, and members of the local
community, integrating context and content through one design project in an
attempt to break down perceived professional and educational silos. The project
and learning processes were recorded through student feedback, module
evaluation and workshop observation. The project exposed both sets of
students to each other’s disciplines, where the architecture students were
engaged with the budget and the QS students were engaged in the design
process. The authors discuss their experience of delivering this particular
multidisciplinary project and how the experience might influence a future
curriculum involving integration of disciplines and the use of live projects in built
environment education. As such this paper focuses less on the physical
outcomes of the project, and more on the ongoing dialogues within built
environment education that talk of multi and interdisciplinary approaches to
design, how they might be more readily adopted through learning and teaching
strategies, and the challenges this approach continues to represent for higher
education.
History
Conference proceeding
Integrated Design Conference id@50
Name of event
Integrated Design Conference id@50
Location
University of Bath
Event start date
2016-06-29
Event finish date
2016-07-01
File version
Other
Language
eng
Legacy posted date
2017-01-13
Legacy creation date
2018-03-23
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ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)