PROJECT: COURSE ARCHIVE

Complete an ARCHIVE of all your work this semester. This should be an archive of your submitted work.

PROJECT: IDENTITY

Respond to the prompt: what is your identity as a designer by completing the tasks below.

Investigation:

  • What are your values?

  • What is your purpose?

  • What is your vision?

  • What is your mission?

  • What does your future look like?

Due Date:

Your ARCHIVE pages are due FEB 22nd by end of the business day.

Deliverables:

All work should be formatted into your ARCHIVE and submitted as a single PDF to the shared drive.

Grading:

Grading will be completed on a failing, approaching, meeting and exceeding basis. See the grading section of the GRADING page for more information.

PROJECT: RESPOND

PROJECT: PODCAST

Produce one episode of a pod casts about one of the topics below:

  • Architecture School: Studio or Laboratory
    Explores the studio as a space for production and critique versus experimentation, research, and speculative inquiry.

  • Architecture School: Tradition or Transformation
    Considers the balance between inherited pedagogies and the need to evolve curricula in response to social, technological, and environmental change.

  • Architecture School: Training or Education
    Questions whether architectural education prioritizes technical proficiency and professional readiness over critical thinking, ethics, and broader intellectual development.

  • Architecture School: Gatekeeper or Gateway
    Examines the role of architecture school in reinforcing exclusionary norms versus expanding access, representation, and alternative paths into the profession.

  • Architecture: Author or Advocate
    Examines the architect’s role in representing communities, clients, and marginalized voices versus asserting individual authorship.

  • Architecture: Expert or Facilitator
    Explores knowledge hierarchies, participatory design, and when architects lead with expertise versus enabling others to shape outcomes.

  • Architecture: Service or System
    Considers architecture as a professional service versus an embedded component of broader social, political, and economic systems.

  • Architecture: Product or Process
    Focuses on outcomes versus methods, emphasizing iterative design, negotiation, and long-term engagement over final form.

DELIVERABLES:

  • Each group should develop a podcast that is no shorter than 20 minutes. The production of the podcast can be in any format or style, but should be bound by real world examples, readings, interviews, news clips, etc.

  • Each group should have no less than 4 supporting sources listed in a standard bibliography.

  • This should be documented in your ARCHIVE via:

    • Pictures of the “podcast studio”

    • Transcript of the conversation

    • Public or private posting on a source of your choice

    • Bibliography

  • Extra credit will be awarded for any group who interviews an individual who can add context and knowledge to the topic (approval required).

DUE DATE:

Your ARCHIVE pages and link are due by APR 5th by end of business day.

GRADING:

Grading will be completed on a failing, approaching, meeting and exceeding basis. See the grading section of the GRADING page for more information.

PROJECT: PRESENT