The pedagogy of virtual design studios
TL;DR: This paper examines the difficulties and opportunities that present themselves in teaching a VDS, and presents a review of the pedagogical issues raised in a V DS.
About: This article is published in Automation in Construction.The article was published on 2001-03-01. It has received 125 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a basic understanding of the role of organization in design collaboration and how it affects design communication and collaboration by empirical case studies and design experiments, and suggest that a structured organization can facilitate design communication, and consequently contribute to the success of the design project.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors chart the major directions and scope emerging dimensions inherent to 6G technology, including Digital Twins and Immersive Realities (XR) that, when applied to cities that are currently being equipped with digital infrastructural backbones, may have direct socio-economic impacts upon our lives while responding to the tenets of the Sustainable Development Goal 11.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the perception and understanding of spatial volumes within immersive and non-immersive virtual environments by comparison with representation using conventional media, and examined the relative effectiveness of these conditions in enabling the translation to a tangible representation, through a series of design experiments.
Abstract: In this study, we examined the perception and understanding of spatial volumes within immersive and non-immersive virtual environments by comparison with representation using conventional media. We examined the relative effectiveness of these conditions in enabling the translation to a tangible representation, through a series of design experiments. Students experienced, assessed, and analysed spatial relationships of volumes and spaces and subsequently constructed real models of these spaces. The goal of our study is to identify how designers perceive space in Virtual Environments (VEs). We explore issues of quality, accuracy and understanding of reconstructing architectural space and forms. By comparison of the same spatial performance task undertaken within a Head Mounted Display, screen-based and real 2D environment, we are able to draw some conclusions about spatial understanding in immersive VE activity.
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TL;DR: The city is a spatial translation of the rights that govern the collective and the individual as discussed by the authors. But is it truly random? Isn't it actually the result of strong local, historical and technological constraints?
Abstract: Cities grow like some sort of plant. Some of them, including some very beautiful ones like the medina of the Maghreb, seem to have been stuck together randomly like great corals. But is it truly random? Isn’t it actually the result of strong local, historical and technological constraints? On the other hand, Greek and Roman cities were designed with rigid plans. Though the overall shape and the road and waterway networks were tightly constrained, each unit had considerable freedom, allowing the city to accommodate the unexpected and adapt itself to new things. Naples, for instance, formerly known as Neapolis - the “new city” - has kept its antique grid pattern. How can structure be given without causing rigidity? The city is a spatial translation of the rights that govern the collective and the individual. Berlin is a contemporary example of this dialectic.
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TL;DR: This research centres on issues of learning and teaching associated with the development of a social network VDS.
Abstract: In 2009, Deakin University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong trailed the use of Web 2.0 technologies to enhance learning outcomes in a third-year architectural design studio that was modelled on the virtual design studios (VDSs) of the past decades. The studio developed the VDS further by integrating a social learning environment into the blended learning experience. The Web 2.0 VDS utilized the social networking site Ning.com, YouTube, Skype and various three-dimensional modelling, video and image processing, and chat software to deliver lectures, communicate learning goals, disseminate learning resources, submitting, providing feedback and comments to various design works, and assessing of students’ outcomes. This research centres on issues of learning and teaching associated with the development of a social network VDS.
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...The VDS The early 1990s saw the emergence of one particular form of design studio, which investigated various possibilities that digital media and virtual environments (VEs) can offer to the learning and the exploring of architectural design (Kvan, 2001)....
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TL;DR: Building on the concepts of professional competence that he introduced in his classic The Reflective Practitioner, Schon offers an approach for educating professional in all areas that will prepare them to handle the complex and unpredictable problems of actual practice with confidence, skill, and care.
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TL;DR: The Groupware Grid as discussed by the authors is a tool for designing and evaluating group support systems (GSS) software at the University of Arizona (UAA) in Arizona, United States.
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