Responsible Design - an experiment in collaboration

Responsible Design - an experiment in collaboration

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The imminent impact of the climate change has forced architecture schools to rethink their pedagogic structures.Using a scaffolded approach in our new MArch studio, we can demonstrate that the multiple narratives are required to deliver a responsive building capable of being durable, resilient and flexible.We argue that understanding these intertwined narratives is an essential method in dealing with the dynamic character of a building under construction, in use and reuse.The paper plots orly happy camper the structured narrative in a necessary linear fashion, where each phase employs specific methods of enquiry to deliver quantitative data that supports evidenced design decisions.However measurement is not everything, because the student teams must find a way of balancing the objective with the qualitative.

The studio remains an open looped learning paradigm where the students are encouraged to reflect on the processes to build for themselves a leadership and decision model for future practice.This is an iterative cyclical model where invention, crisis and paradigm shift are built in.Through learning histories (both shared and personal), through storytelling (Roth & Kleiner, 1998), the ellakai story of the MArch Collaborative Studio at TU Dublin is revealed.