This project focuses on:
​ - well-being in
architecture
- student experience
- proposed methods
towards a more
compassionate
architecture education
This project looks towards a future of compassionate, inclusive architecture by means of transforming traditional design education and learned architecture pedagogies. To support this proposal, we use interviews, literature review, and a large-scale anonymous survey at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning to illustrate both the histories and current status of design education. We propose to replace traditional tough-love narratives in the design studio with intentional and omnidirectional mentorship centered around compassion practices like mindfulness, developing self-efficacy and new tools for collective reflection in place of traditional assessment. Teaching architecture in the design studio is already quite informal and prone to the idiosyncrasies of any given instructor. For those who share our interest in cultivating more inclusive architecture pedagogies going forward, we can leverage this informality to amplify productive modes of increasing inclusion in the design studio. This work carries on in a time of unprecedented uncertainty regarding well-being, where we hope architects will design with rather than for the well-being of others.
On Typical Architecture Education
