Some examples of my design studio teaching- based on inclusive, ethical and feminist principles.
Building Clouds Drifting Walls
A radical revisionist first year architecture course at Sheffield University built on feminist, inclusive, collaborative principles. PDF here.
Aims:
Developing and sustaining creativity in the midst of reality.
Supporting a Collective Sense of Excellence
Allowing the experience and personality of each student to inform their design approach
Developing a critical and inclusive pedagogical approach.
Street Society/ Street Studio
A week-long externally funded annual live project, developing into a Masters Studio, in the post-conflict context of Northern Ireland.
Aims:
Exposing Students to Live, Critical Contexts
Using Live projects as a way to develop team and accessible communication skills
Exposing people beyond academia to the cultural and societal value of Schools of Architecture. Sharing the students’ creativity.
Without Precedent
A Masters studio, in collaboration with the architect Robert Jamison, bringing design thinking into the heart of material development and material understanding into design.
Aims:
Experimenting / prototyping with materials to better understand their potential
Drawing on wider networks of expertise across the university and industry
Becoming familiar with processes of analysing material performance
Ruth Morrow 