Actions to Reset Studio Culture: A Case Study

Decolonization isn’t only reclaiming aggressively settled territories, it is also reclaiming the traditions and processes inherited from the logic of colonization. In architectural education, agency is evaluated through form, aesthetics, and systems. However, could a new pedagogical approach that measures architecture through the representation of its constituents lead to social values in the discipline? Could this shift in studio education create an environment that incorporates student diversity rather than neutralizing it? In the Fall of 2020, the instructors and students of a third-year architectural design studio at the University of New Mexico leveraged the drastic change in platforms of learning to challenge and reset traditional pedagogical models in these spaces.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.62

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978-1-944214-37-1