Teaching Innovation Project

At the same time, the Spanish students took part of the Teaching Innovation Project “Peripheral Approaches. Transversal Learning in the Collective Experience”. This project seeks that different students from peripheral disciplines outside the architecture, together with the students from the course, can learn with each other through a knowledge exchanging program. Knowledge means the approaching strategies that each one uses, instead of explanation of specific strategies. http://issuu.com/uddfedericosoriano/docs/ud23_miercoles

“Peripheral Approaches” joins and registers a unique and new transversal work both in the Department of Architectural Design as in other Spanish and foreign centers. The program, which assumes the collaboration between students and experts in other fields, aims to provide a multidisciplinary approach that goes beyond one-way explanations.

The goals that we try to achieve with our proposal “Peripheral Approaches” are:

- Increase the transversal condition of Architectural Design teaching at the Architecture School thorough an innovative pedagogy.

- Value the work, done by the students of the Architecture School and the ones coming from the peripheral disciplines, as processes with great potential and not as “compulsory’ steps whose only interest is focused on the final result.

- Encourage the students to develop alternatives to the regulated learning as we know it today.

- Improve student self-assessment criteria.

- Increase student’s efficiency to achieve new production processes results.

- Create teaching resources and a register of the decisive activities during the development of “Peripheral Approaches” project.

- Promote students critical participation in class, both with their own and teachers work, in order to improve academic outcomes in both the short and long term.