Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Research, Design and Method in Architecture 2025-II, Can Karagülle, Editör, Livre de Lyon, Lyon, ss.71-95, 2025
Being the core course in architectural education, the design studio embodies diverse parameters and variables, some of which come from historical background and some from the current circumstances. Indeed, global/national issues requiring urgent responses from all professions force studios to be more sensitive in character and sensible in their proposed solutions. The climate crisis and the natural disasters the earth has been facing, immigration and poverty, and their consequences that societies have long been fighting against are the main issues directly related to design studios nowadays. Therefore, focusing on the old canons, form-finding exercises, repetition of existing typologies, and other conventional ways of studio practices are on the way to being replaced by the pedagogies that result in well-tuned responses to problems. Studio teachers and students are expected to collaborate actively, and institutional values are expected to reform their content according to the global/national educational requirements.
New design pedagogies are needed that can act as an antidote and go beyond the conventional attitudes of institutions, as crises, disasters, and rapid change intensify their effects on societies and environments. This paper considers the design studio as an experiential milieu that cultivates contexts and subjects. Future architects will be on duty to propose innovative solutions to newly emerging issues, including those we do not know yet. The paper introduces the dynamics that shape the design of design studios, as it provides insight into a specific pedagogy, learning by competing. The Spring 2023–24 studio practice is detailed and assessed through the lens of sustainability and educational impact.