3rd Floor North Conference Room
Teaching as a Practice of Exit: Rethinking Architectural Pedagogies Beyond Institutions
This workshop explores teaching architectural design as well as history and theory as a practice of exit—one that convenes spaces of collective study, engages with movements for liberation, and imagines strategies for stepping beyond the institutions of the modern-colonial world-system. Through examples from his own teaching experience, Eduardo Rega Calvo will discuss ways to create […]
3rd Floor North Conference Room
Building Confidence in Yourself and Your Students: Taking Risks, Leveling the Field
Does one build confidence in the classroom as one moves from graduate student to postdoc to assistant professor? What hurdles present themselves at every phase? What is (and should be) the relationship between “expert knowledge” and teaching? In this discussion, Prof. Lopez will outline the arc of her teaching experience—from graduate student TA to postdoc […]
Upper Gallery
Empowering Pedagogies: Unpacking Student-led Course with Unmasking Space
What does it mean to run a student-led course in an architecture school? What are the challenges and tactics to make it effective and empowering for students? How can such experimental teaching/learning format help us critically reflect on and shift the current knowledge production in architectural education? This workshop explores these questions with the Unmasking Space initiative from the […]