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Teaching principles of network and agent-based models to architecture students

Al-Sayed, K; Griffiths, S; Karimi, K; (2015) Teaching principles of network and agent-based models to architecture students. In: Karimi, K and Vaughan, L and Sailer, K and Bolton, T, (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Space Syntax Symposium (SSS10). Space Syntax Laboratory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London: London, United Kingdom. Green open access

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Abstract

Architectural design is necessarily a situated learning process that continues to be a subject of interest in architectural education. Whether designers should give preference to a functional design product or whether the focus should be centered on creative output are issues that need to be questioned. Given the typically vague descriptions of creativity it is even harder to determine whether design functionality and design creativity should be treated as separate entities. The implications of any preferences made on the methods of assessment are crucial. While teaching is necessarily aligned to design as an experiential learning process, it also requires careful understanding of how knowledge can inform rather than constrain creativity. In evaluating the creativity or even the functionality of a design there are challenges present in accounting for a comprehensive and yet practical framework for assessment. In teaching practices the challenge is to ensure that the assessment process is sufficiently specified without limiting creative explorations. It is argued that through exposing design propositions to internal and external criticism, assessing progress becomes less of a challenge. In this course of development 'creativity' is revealed not as value-neutral but as a product of a social process that is practiced through experiential learning.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Teaching principles of network and agent-based models to architecture students
Event: The 10th International Space Syntax Symposium, London, United Kingdom, 13-17 July, 2015.
ISBN-13: 9780993342905
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.sss10.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/upl...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470063
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