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The Analytics of Power
There can be little argument that the design jury features as a key symbolic event in the education of the architect.
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However, while the centrality of the design jury as a site for learning disciplinary skills, beliefs, and values is now widely acknowledged, there continues to be considerable disagreement about what is learnt and how. While critical pedagogues argue that the design jury is a critic-centered ritual that coerces students into conforming to hegemonic notions of professional identity, the more commonly held conception is that the jury is a student-centered event that supports students in the construction of their own architectural identities.
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This article, inspired by Michel Foucault's studies of relationship between power and the formation of the modern self, reports on the findings of a year-long ethnographic study carried out in one British school of architecture.
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The research sought to unravel the complexities of the design jury as a site of dichotomous power relations, and the findings bring into question the efficacy of the design jury as a ritual that supports useful learning. The article concludes by proposing that the design jury be replaced by a new set of pedagogic events that are carefully constructed to support student learning.
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On the Other Side of Sorrow: Reimagining the Highland Longhouse
In the context of contemporary debates about Scottish devolution and identity this report investigates the re-emergence of the highland longhouse typology on the Isle of Skye after nearly two hundred years of decline. Following an introduction to post-devolution discourse on Scottish identity and to the postmodern notion of \"reimagining,\" the report looks specifically at one architectural practice, Dualchas Architects, which has been active on the Isle of Skye for the past seventeen years and is attempting to reimagine the highland longhouse for the highland community today. The report concludes by suggesting that through the act of reimagining, a process of taking from the past that which serves the practical, political and cultural needs of the present, Dualchas Architects have triggered a renewed interest in the highland longhouse as a progressive and specifically \"highland\" architecture.
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The Analytics of Power
There can be little argument that the design jury features as a key symbolic event in the education of the architect.1 However, while the centrality of the design jury as a site for learning disciplinary skills, beliefs, and values is now widely acknowledged, there continues to be considerable disagreement about what is learnt and how. While critical pedagogues argue that the design jury is a critic‐centered ritual that coerces students into conforming to hegemonic notions of professional identity, the more commonly held conception is that the jury is a student‐centered event that supports students in the construction of their own architectural identities.2 This article, inspired by Michel Foucault’s studies of relationship between power and the formation of the modern self, reports on the findings of a year‐long ethnographic study carried out in one British school of architecture.3 The research sought to unravel the complexities of the design jury as a site of dichotomous power relations, and the findings bring into question the efficacy of the design jury as a ritual that supports useful learning. The article concludes by proposing that the design jury be replaced by a new set of pedagogic events that are carefully constructed to support student learning.
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New public places in San Francisco
Helena Webster looks at a new publicly led redevelopment project in San Francisco
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Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Downtown Plan?
Peter Howard and Helena Webster on the transformation of downtown Chattanooga
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Dublin's Temple Bar initiative
Helena Webster and Peter Howard on the urban design and regeneration scheme under way in Dublin's 'cultural quarter'
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