Becoming Credible: Developing Pedagogies for Inclusive Design Futures

2020’s racial reckoning produced student, faculty, staff, and alumni calls for action to many North American schools of architecture and design. For example, Notes on Credibility, by the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s African American Student Union and Africa GSD, demands that the GSD must “institutionalize anti-racism and acknowledge that pedagogy has a cultural obligation.[1] Many calls echo Notes, prompting a rethinking of architectural pedagogy from longheld Beaux-Arts models and late image-making practices. As we collectively advance, studio instruction requires new pedagogical and inclusive modes incorporating identity, culture, history, memory, and place. Empathic instruction, through a strategically designed collegial environment, allows for personal and instructional creativity resulting in personal discovery. To rise to the Calls, and this time, pedagogies must include a full human experiential perspective, whereby students develop a skill toolkit based on ethics and aesthetics to support design activism.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.63

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