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Towards a SoTL experiment in the core curriculum of History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture through the ‘directed research in class’ format
jun/2023
Research (SoTL)This research-in-teaching project discusses the challenges faced by architecture students when contextualizing their practice within contemporary phenomena framed by the opportunities and challenges of globalization processes, and when developing concrete theoretical outputs. The proposal suggests an approach based on guided in-class research and models of active strategic teaching to foster a climate of collaborative exercises around theoretical products in the History, Theory, and Criticism (HTC) courses. It advances the hypothesis that this new approach can directly contribute to promoting the association of global phenomena with fundamental aspects of architectural learning. The proposal describes the preliminary design of an experiment to test this hypothesis within the activities of three HTC courses in the architecture curriculum at LCI VERITAS, through a teaching-research project with a SoTL approach during 2023 and 2024.