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In Case Study No 3, that of the tailor’s shop one student (Argyrw Stylianou), chose
to give another role to Mr Argyros, the tailor himself. His actual role, as the respon-
sible for state certificates for the neighbourhood was transformed into the person
responsible for the surveillance of the shopping centre. So the insert design reflected
indeed, various scales of surveillance of the flow and how that was managed with
his own personal living (image 19). Another student (Christos Pasadakis), chose to
extend the logic of the escalators into the design of the insert and a sort of quick
stop and mend tailor’s activity. (image 20)
A project based action as a mechanism of managing complexity
Through the text there was an attempt to raise some issues beyond the technologi-
cal development related to architectural design into that of managing complexity.
The design studio outcome demonstrated that it is possible to introduce students
in that sort of complexity from the very beginning of their studies. It is true that
it is an ambitious undertaking and the design studio presented has run only once.
Nevertheless, one should not ignore the multitask ability of the new generation
achieved in fact through
their everyday friction with a multiplicity of environments at the same time, vir-
tual, real, hybrid ones developed in fact by their continuous friction with computer
games and communications. For sure, one could take advantage of such capacities
and their education cannot be the same as that of the previous generation.
Notes
1 Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus – Fall Semester 2006-2007. Studio assist-
ant, Aggela Petrou, architect.
2 There is a large range of bibliography on that issue that the author has studied through
his doctorate degree titled: “Forms of “local / global” dynamics in a project based action
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