Colaborative design tactics

Abstract

Collaborative Design Tactics is a teaching experience that revisits and updates the teamwork format within the Design Studio courses. To this end, a set of co-design and co-learning tactics, based on Design thinking principles, overlaps the natural rhythm of the course. It simulates the real conditions of an architectural office that works towards a common goal, at a scale of the whole class together. The experience, developed by the Teaching Innovation Group from ETSAM, called “Agglutinative Design Devices”, deals with a reality characterized by multi-skilled professional work, collaboration and complexity, which is far away from traditional individual models. With this intention, the group understands the University as an entity able to affect its context and its discipline, the classroom as a close environment where knowledge between peers can be amplified, the students as a research group akin to a professional office and the ensemble student-Professor as a learning active agent.