212 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
- Introduction
- Group exercise, whole year: Icebreaker session - movement
- Exploration of given spaces/journeys for each of the 4 groups
- Lecture. Drawing and recording the body in space
- Group exercise, whole year: Explore 3 movements in relation to space/building
horizontal, vertical, circular. - Exploring the body in space. Drawing/movement exercise in groups
- Presentation of initial ideas.
Fig 2
End of Day 1
We deliberately filled day 1 with a full programme. It threw the students into it. They
were confused, but even the sceptics became involved by the close of the session.
Signdance Collective started with an icebreaker workshop to help students (and
staff) to lose their inhibitions over moving in front of others. We stressed that they
were not trying to be dancers, but exploring them through movement and bodily
engagement. Day 1 had to be a build up of how the tasks we’d set the students;
movement, drawing, performance, are interlinked. A workshop at the end of the day
where they presented their initial ideas forced them to make progress. Although many
students were still unclear about its relevance to their preconceptions of architectural
design education, they produced promising ideas.