Browsing College of Design Sponsored Conferences by Issue Date
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Critical Thinking Is Not Discipline-Specific: Teaching Critical Thinking to the Beginning Design Student
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)This paper will address the increasing burden being placed on university-level design education to teach critical thinking as paramount in the design process, not only during the formative years but also throughout the ... -
Charrette : A High Performance Vehicle for Learning in the Design Studio
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)When announced at the beginning of a studio session, a charrette often elicits groans from students and some pondering about the tasks that may lie ahead in the short period of intense work articulated in the parameters ... -
New Nomadism, Nothing is True
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)We live in a world that has been digitized, and it is now about finding means to intensify our perception of this world in order to navigate through it. Suggesting a strategy to expand our cognitive framework I will explore ... -
An Integrated and Collaborative Approach: Integrating Technology in Beginning Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)Derived from IIT's historic model of integrating structures and construction in the design studio, the graduate degree in architecture's first year investigates relationships between material properties, structural typologies ... -
blog.folios : Social Networking to Academic and Professional Engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)Today's eighteen-year-old college freshman belong to a generation known variously as Generation Y, the Millennial Generation, the Computer Generation and the Internet Generation. Not only is this group the first to have ... -
Pulling It Together: A Pre-Comprehensive First-Year Project
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)In an effort to overcome a deficit in basic drawing, making and critical thinking skills that typify many students educational experience in the Middle East prior to entering design school, a four week project for first-year ... -
The Designer Client Relationship: Learning to Identify, Assess, and Articulate Client Needs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)Scholars in architecture and interior design have identified a need to develop communication and interpersonal skills in design programs so students will be better equipped to communicate with clients. How effective is the ... -
From Endings Come Beginnings: Facilitating the Transition from Ending Student to Beginning Practitioner
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)The receipt of a degree is momentous; it is at once the end of an academic career and the beginning of practice life. Terminal coursework thus becomes a critical component in successfully preparing students for the ... -
Sound-Object-Space: A Case Study on Utilizing Musical Composition for an Interdisciplinary Basic Design Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)The basic design education, which is implemented as a freshmen year studio training at schools of art, design and architecture, has a particular importance in developing students' mindsets. In spite of its practical and ... -
Three Disciplines, a Common First Year: Beginnings and Other Thresholds
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)This paper uses surveys to investigate what entering freshman students know about the three environmental design professions, and how students choose which to pursue at the culmination of a common first year. What influences ... -
Once Upon A Shape, or A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)This paper discusses the use of a design project to advance the beginning design students' ability to visually communicate complex themes, emotions, and content through the creation of a narrative in a simple book form. ... -
Periphery at the Center - Everything but the Building
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)What are we building, where is the site and when do we start? Questions usually at the forefront when speaking of design-build. At our department, making is making a really strong comeback. Product, exhibits and even ... -
Beginning Design Students' Perception of Design Evaluation Techniques
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)Evaluating design students requires inherently different methods than existing models available in other disciplines; as such incoming students are required to adjust. The primary difference between design education and ... -
(de)Coding the Studio Method to Teach the Design of Human-Computer Interaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)This paper reports on the beginning of a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to apply the studio method to teach computer science students principles of user interface design. The grant spans ... -
You Are Here: Green Design Principles in Foundational Architectural Curricula
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)Ideally, green design incorporates both the ethic of sustainability and ecological literacy as integral to the design process rather than as additive to it. In practice, this type of integral design requires complex ... -
Beginning Scribes: Architecture Through Genre Writing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)The Second Year undergraduate writing seminar at UNC Charlotte has enjoyed a 20-year history in the College of Architecture. Originally administered as a pair of courses in support of the sophomore design curricula, the ... -
Hinging
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)This paper describes an introductory course in Building Information Modeling for fourth and fifth year architecture students, a course that seeks to develop, as well as critique, an alternate model for BIM courses in design ... -
Profession Without Discipline Would be Blind
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)This paper explores two design studio projects developed and conducted at the School of Architecture at the University of Kansas. Through their pedagogy these projects posed the question of the engagement of the discipline ... -
In the Spirit of Texas Rangers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)"But we see their greatness... We must look to it for continuity; to transmit to the future generations." Bernhard Hoesli In short years between 1951 and 1956 at the University of Texas at Austin, a young group of ... -
Digital RE Thinking: Digital Literacy in Beginning Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)A challenge to CAAD pedagogy is how to use digital tools and the digital environment to explore design thinking and process that makes inspiring beautiful architecture to educate a new breed of "Digital Master Builders"? ...