Recent Publications
Publications
What about Learning? focuses on how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of disembodied learning and a renewed sense of civic participation, along with an increasing awareness of how our relationship to the environment is so critical to life at home. These issues led the students to consider a twofold architectural question: What is the best site for learning today? What alternative forms of learning and exchange could it nurture?
The research came out of a studio led by Deborah Saunt, of DSDHA, based in London with Timothy Newton and Jane Wong. A collective analysis of the Yale School of Architecture’s changing conditions, from its physical site to a virtual presence and networks, in parallel with research into alternative learning models such as University of the Underground and the London School of Architecture, served as the basis for critique and the making and unmaking of a curriculum in the students’ studio projects. The design projects drew from lockdown and the need for different spatial potentials for learning in sites of personal significance. Talks from a symposium with guests invited from different fields—from activism and planning to pedagogy, triggering a cross-disciplinary exchange about learning and the built environment—are also included.
