Association of Architectural Educators 2 Annual AAE Conference 2014 Living and Learning

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AAE 2014 CONFERENCE

Association of Architectural Educators

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2 Annual AAE Conference 2014
Living and Learning

The University of Sheffield – 3rd to 5th September 2014

Proceedings

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Editorial Team
Rosie Parnell, Lakshmi Priya Rajendran and Sara Mahdizadeh

Keynote Speakers
Ruth Morrow
Neelkanth H. Chhaya
Vinesh Pomal
Yui Tezuka
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Acknowledgments:
A conference of this scale requires the support of a great many people and there are therefore many
people to thank. Our thanks go to: the keynote speakers who travelled great distances and took great
care to engage with the conference and tailor their talks to our themes, questions and our curiosity;
the 149 conference participants who took risks, explored, experimented and provided the matter and
ideas for rich debate and inspiration; the administrative and technical staff of the School of
Architecture, University of Sheffield, for all of their behind-the-scenes essential support - especially
Janet Richardson for financial administration, Martin Bradshaw for organising and supporting
technical equipment and James Bower for tireless printing and binding; the conference committee
who each contributed an essential ingredient which shaped the conference in some way; those who
kindly agreed to chair the various sessions; James Brown for his gallant volunteering, way beyond the
call of duty, in the final stages of preparation; The University of Sheffield for agreeing to host the
conference and Sheffield Hallam University for hosting one of the keynote talks; conference
sponsors/supporters Ashgate, EDDICT, RIBA Publishing, Vectorworks, TRADA and Wiley as well as
the aae itself; the wider group of Sheffield School of Architecture staff and aae members who
reviewed papers and gave their moral support; and finally the student volunteers who made a whole
range of creative, organisational and technical contributions and who provided the glue that held the
whole thing together.

Conference Planning Team

Conference Chairs
Rosie Parnell, The University of Sheffield
Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, The University of Sheffield

Conference Committee
James Benedict Brown, Norwich University of the Arts
Bob Brown, Plymouth University
Ruxandra Berinde, The University of Sheffield
Leo Care, The University of Sheffield
Victoria Farrow, Nottingham Trent University
Aidan Hoggard, The University of Sheffield
Peter Holgate, Northumbria University
Daniel Jary, The University of Sheffield
Sara Lancashire, The University of Sheffield
Tatjana Schneider, The University of Sheffield
Hannah Vowels, The University of Sheffield
Andrew Wilson, Sheffield Hallam University

Conference Topic Chairs
Jane Anderson, Oxford Brookes University
James Benedict Brown, Norwich University of the Arts
Carolyn Butterworth, The University of Sheffield
Leo Care, The University of Sheffield
Victoria Farrow, Nottingham Trent University
Aidan Hoggard, The University of Sheffield
Dan Jary, The University of Sheffield
Florian Kossak, The University of Sheffield
Anne Markey, London Metropolitan University
Rachel Sara, University of the West of England
Fionn Stevenson, The University of Sheffield
Hannah Vowles, Birmingham City University
Julian Williams, University of Westminster

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Student Volunteers
The University of Sheffield:
Rully Damayanti
Maryam Fazel
Fei Qu
Junjie Huang
Ruth Jennings
Chihiro Kida
Kyle McCracken
Nurul Mohamad
Faith C Ng'eno
Gloria A Vargas Palma
Juste Paulauskaite
Zhini Poh
Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi
Chada Romcai
Maša Šorn
Purdie Whitting
Xiang Ren
Ziwen Sun

School of Architecture

The University of Sheffield

978-0-9929705-2-9

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aae2014 conference: Living and Learning
Hosted by the University of Sheffield School of Architecture, ‘Living and Learning’ explored the notion of
‘liveness’, not just as experienced through live projects, but expanded to consider different forms of
community participation and civic engagement, material and constructed interventions. The conference
offered a platform for critical reflection on the most recent wave of ‘live’ innovations in design studio teaching
and beyond. Centred on architecture education, contributions were invited from any disciplinary context
which might offer insight and spark critical debate.

Potential questions to be explored included:

 What are the various understandings of the term ‘live’ in relation to pedagogy?
 What is the theoretical basis for ‘going live’ in our teaching?
 Where are the parallels with other disciplines and how might these challenge or enrich our practices?
 What are the different motivations for ‘liveness’ and how does it operate at different stages of
architectural education?
 What does ‘live’ mean in online, digital environments?
 How do the responsibilities of ‘liveness’ co-exist with risk-taking, play and experimentation?

Challenging the traditional conference model, re-inventing it as a social and spatial event, ‘Living and Learning’
developed a more varied feast of exchanges and offerings, with reading groups, performances, workshops and
other activities taking place alongside more conventional conference activities. Events were held both within
the University, its Architecture School and elsewhere in the city, aiming to engage a wider audience of
students and members of the public in the debate around architectural education.

The various kinds of contributions included:

1) Peer-Reviewed Papers: Reading Group
Individual papers submitted for peer-review were explored at the conference through round-table reading
groups. Participants were given the opportunity to read papers beforehand and then discuss two or three
papers following five minute introductions by the authors.

2) Peer-Reviewed Papers: Thematic Symposium
Symposia were constructed around themes and included a series of presentations (2-4) which summarised the
associated peer-reviewed papers, stimulating discussion and/or related activity as part of the session.

3) Magic Moments
An opportunity to share moments in teaching that have worked really well, through a show-and-tell. Where
appropriate, this was extended into a workshop that allowed the participants to also try out an
activity/technique; whether as learner or as teacher.

4) Art Piece: Performance/Installation/Critical Art Piece
An arts-based comment or exploration of some aspect of ‘live’ learning and teaching. Any medium could be
proposed.

5) Going Live
A ‘long thin’ workshop, which aimed towards the development of a learning and teaching resource or output
of some kind. Going Live called for the sketch of an idea for a new resource or output which might then be
further developed and populate with colleagues during the conference. e.g. a web platform ready to take
examples offered by the conference delegates during coffee breaks and lunchtimes; a polemical written piece
of work with multiple authors etc. Participants were invited to offer a workshop to kick-start the initiative, or
simply announce it during a plenary session, then have a presence in shared spaces and invite participation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

0.1 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….vi

0.2 PAPERS

READING GROUPS

Night at the Museum: Battle for the Future of Architecture………………………………………………………………………………………………….1
Mia Papaefthimiou

Visualising the Unbuilt: Design Investigation in Architectural Pedagogy………………………………………….……………………………………5
David E. Morton

Learning from the Medics: Professionalism and Ethical Implications of 'Practicing on the Poor'…………………………….…………..11
Nikki Linsell

S[q]WOTting Between Academia and Practice……………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………….15
Holly Rose Doron

Using Geocaching as a Teaching Tool with Student Architects………………………………………………………………………….…………………21
Alexander Griffin

To Build or Not to Build: Going Live is [Not] Just Being Practical!............................................................................................26
Mark Olweny, Alex Ndibwami, Paul Thomas, Achilles, Ahimbisibwe, Mathieu Lubingo and Jude Katta

Ends and Means: Inquires Into the Role of the Solar Decathlon in Architectural Education…………………………………………………30
Mark McGlothlin

Affective Experience in Space. A Case Study for Systems Thinking in Architecture……………………………………………………………..35
Silvia Bassanese and Benedetta Rodeghiero

What to Take and What to Leave? Balancing Between Experimentation and Responsibility in Live Projects………………………41
Mohamed A. Salheen, Marwa M. Abdellatif, and Merham M. Keleg

Architecture of Multiple Authorship………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………….46
Sandra Denicke-Polcher and Torange Khonsari

The Real Deal: Case Studies in Alternative Teaching Strategies…………………………….………………………….…………………………………51
Derek Hill

The Meaning of Small Scale………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………57
Stephen Garrison

Old Building Technologies for 21st Century Architectural Technology Students………………………………………………………………….61
Anne Vanner and Gaynor Wood

The Value of Architectural Education in Nigeria: Students Expectations in Six Schools of
Architecture in South-East Nigeria……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..65
Ikechukwu Onyegiri, Nkemakonam P. Okofu and Alozie G. Chinedu.

Strategies for Teaching Awareness of the Built Environment or Landscape………………………………………………………………..……..70
Karel Vandenhende

Education in Practice…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..74
James Soane

Habits of Mind and the Iterative Process in Design: Taking Responsible Risk……………………………………………..……………………….78
Maria V Miller
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The Studio and the Architect, the Post-Studio and the Artist……………………………………………………….……………………………………..83
Alessandro Columbano

‘Liveness’ Beyond Design Studio Pedagogy: Layers of ‘Live’ Within and Across the
Boundaries of Classroom Settings………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………88
Ashraf M. Salama

Dead Letter Office………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………94
Bradley Walters and Mark McGlothlin

Enabling Professional-Self Design: Educating for Praxis/Ethos/Poiesis……………………………………………………………………………..100
Ian Wight

Reflective Building: Feedback from Living and Working Within Design/Build Pedagogy……………………………………..…………….105
Charlie Hailey

Translating Vernacular Hybridity into a Living Matrix -- Reflections on the
production and occupation of a School Building………………………………………………………….……………………………………..…………….109
Xiang Ren

The BEAM Project - Real Life Complexity in a Design Studio Context………………………………………………………………………………..115
Craig Stott and Simon Warren

SYMPOSIA

SYMPOSIUM: Rethinking Architectural Education – The new EU Directive and the role of live Projects (4 papers)
Undergraduate Studio 3: Self-initiating Community Projects Through Multi-disciplinary Practice………….…………………….…..122
Sandra Denicke-Polcher and Torange Khonsari

The Brazil Programme at the Cass: Living in the City…………………………………………………………………………….………….……………….123
Sandra Denicke-Polcher and Dann Jessen

Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources: Live Projects as a Tool of Research…………………………….…….…………….124
Maurice Mitchell and Bo Tang

CASSprojects: Supporting Live Projects by Combining the Discipline of Research and the Discipline of Being
Professional………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………….…….………124
Anne Markey

SYMPOSIUM: ACTION –LEARNING IN CITIES (3 papers)
From the Studio to the Field: Learning and Teaching in Context……………………………………………………………………………………….126
Elena Archipovaite

From ‘Live’ Projects to ‘Lived’ Environments: ‘Practised’ Architecture and Design Scales in the Contested Territories of the
Global South……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..130
Viviana d’Auria

Learning Amidst Urban Practices……………………………………………………………………………………………..……..…………………….………….135
Beatrice De Carli and Melissa Kinnear

SYMPOSIUM: MAKING AS LIVE PROCESS (2 papers)
The Mock-Up as a Living Tool in Design Pedagogy………………………………..……….……………….…………………………………………….…..140
Charlie Hailey

The Weight of Things………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………….144
Mark McGlothlin and Bradley Walters

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SYMPOSIUM: BUILDING PERFORMANCE LIVE! (3 papers)
Embedding Post-occupancy Evaluation into Architectural Education: From Specialism to Mainstream……………………..…..…145
Rajat Gupta

Making it Real - Engaging Students in Building Performance Research at the Mac…………………….........................……………..151
Tim Sharpe

Architectures of Consequence: A Methodology for ‘Live’ Building Performance Evaluation in the Studio……………………..…155
Fionn Stevenson

SYMPOSIUM: GOING LIVE: RECONCILING EXPREINTENTIAL LEARNING PRACTICES WITH COMMUNITY
EXPECTATION (3 papers)
The Eureka Project: Analyzing a Tripartite Model for Collaboration…………………………………………………….…………..………………160
R. Todd Gabbard

Hyalite Pavilion – Calibrating Teaching to Achieve Community Effectiveness……………………………………………..…………………….165
Bruce Wrightsman

The Learning Garden: Arguing for Schoolyard Change in a Zero-funding Environment……………………………..………………………169
Katie Kingery-Page and Myles Alexander

SYMPOSIUM: TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND DESIGN (2 papers)
‘And … Action!’ Keeping it Real in Dublin’s Suburbs……………………………………………………………………………………………………..…174
Orla Murphy and Fiona Hughes

Drawing is Alive – The Observer’s Momentum…………………………………………………………….………………………….………………..….….179
Raquel Pelayo

SYMPOSIUM: CONTEXT AND DESIGN (2 papers)
SOCIALForm: [re]Linking Architecture, Culture, and Environment………………………………………………………………………….…………183
James Eckler

Sustainability and Difference in Suburban Cape Town……………………………………………………….…………………………………..………...190
Rudolf Perold and Oswald Devisch

Learning in Action. Mapping San Siro: an Exploration into City/University Collaboration
Francesca Cognetti and Ida Castelnuovo…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….195

SYMPOSIUM: PARCIPATORY APPROACHES (2 papers)
Embedded: Participatory Research Techniques in Problem‐Setting/Brief Writing for Design Projects and the Role of
Exhibition in Community Feedback……………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………..………..203
Sebastian Messer

Participative Process in Rural Public Space Planning as a Pattern for Living and Learning…………………………………………….…..208
Anna Marta Wlodarczyk

SYMPOSIUM: FIELD WORK (2 papers)
Fieldwork: Uncovering Cultural Landscapes………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………215
Kate Cheyne

Design with Life: Regeneration in Historic Spaces :Urban Design + Architecture Design Joint Studio Between Tianjin
University (China) and University of Nottingham(UK)………………………………………………………………………………………………….……221

Xiwei Xu, Tim Heath and Yue Tang

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SYMPOSIUM: TAXONOMY OF LIVE PROJECTS (3 papers)
Woodland Creatures and Fabrication Wizards. Resources, Product, Context and Motivation observed in a Taxonomy of Live
Projects…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....227
Jane Anderson

A Taxonomy of Live Projects and Ethical Implications of the University as a Creative Host to Architectural Agency –
Summary Paper…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………233
Burch, J., Daniels, S., Marco, E. and Sara, R.

MAGIC MOMENTS

Beyond Research………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………236
Yousef Al-Haroun

Self Organising Networks and Decentralised Knowledge Exchange: How UK Architecture Students are 30 years Ahead the
‘Occupy Movement’………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….240
Christopher Maloney

Engage…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………….244
Shibboleth Shechter & Mariana Pestana

Architecture as Pedagogy: Alive and Kicking ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…248
George Lovett, Ruth Morrow and David McClean

Civic Fabrication : Urban Futures……………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………..249
Alex MacLaren

Visual Tools as Enhancers to a Creative Building Process with the Community- A New Visual Live Architectural Education
Approach………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….254
Eman Mohamed Ismail Abdellatif

A Student Perspective on Self-Initiating Design-Build…………………………………………………………………………………………………..……259
Fabian Danker

Authenticity + Engagement in Architectural Education……………………………………………………………………………………………………..263
Benjamin Elliott, Kelly MacKinnon and Stephen Roberts

SA to the Power 3: Khomotso Créche, South Africa………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………264
John Ramsay

Reflections on… Reflections on Architectural Education………………………………………………………………………………………..………….265
George Lovett

Real’ ‘Live’ Architectural Projects at the University of Portsmouth……………………………………………………………………………………266
Martin Andrews, Tod Wakefield, David Goodman, Emma Travers, Amy Walker

Baby Steps. Architecture without Stabilisers……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..267
Victoria Farrow

ART PIECE

The Neighbourhoods University – Programme, Action and Form as Reciprocally Dynamic Process of an Educational Urban
1:1 Model………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………………………269
Christopher Dell, Bernd Kniess, Tabea Michaelis and Ben Pohl

Live Fortune Telling…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………273
Jane Anderson

5 ways to say your prayers…………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………274
Ruth Morrow
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GOING LIVE/WORKSHOPS

TRADA Workshop – Judging Velocity…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………276
Elizabeth Turner

Inclusive Design - A Lasting Paralympic Legacy………………………….…………………………………………………………………..…………………278
Julie Fleck and Victoria Farrow

Build it with your Eyes Closed……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………280
James Benedict Brown

Spotter’s Guide to Sheffield’s City Centre Architecture……………………………………….……………………………………………………………281
Leo Care, Carolyn Butterworth and Eirini Christofidou

Dear Sheffield: One Postcard from Sheffield for each of the Sheffield Society of Architects' 125 years…………………………….282
Sheffield Society of Architects' -Steve Parnell

0.3 CONTACTS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….284
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