Digital Empowerment for the “Experimental Bureau” Work Based Learning in Architectural Education

Digital Empowerment for the “Experimental Bureau” Work Based Learning in Architectural Education

Matthias, Kulcke; Martens, Bob

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This paper describes the concept of the ``Experimental Bureau'' as a didacticenvironment aiming to deal with real-life design tasks within the framework ofarchitectural education. Its main focus lies on the specific opportunities fordigital empowerment of students who learn about the design process - sometimeseven in the role of contractors - in real-life oriented project work. Thus thefollowing questions come under scrutiny and discussion from an angle of workbased learning: What kind of design problems are tackled in a meaningful way bystudents through the utilization of a digital strategy? What kind of software (orsoftware mix) is chosen and what problems are addressed by the choice andhandling of these digital tools? These questions are answered in a different wayapplying the format of the Experimental Bureau, driven by its real-life projectsand client communication, in comparison to largely artificial tasks confined tothe academic realm

This paper describes the concept of the ``Experimental Bureau'' as a didacticenvironment aiming to deal with real-life design tasks within the framework ofarchitectural education. Its main focus lies on the specific opportunities fordigital empowerment of students who learn about the design process - sometimeseven in the role of contractors - in real-life oriented project work. Thus thefollowing questions come under scrutiny and discussion from an angle of workbased learning: What kind of design problems are tackled in a meaningful way bystudents through the utilization of a digital strategy? What kind of software (orsoftware mix) is chosen and what problems are addressed by the choice andhandling of these digital tools? These questions are answered in a different wayapplying the format of the Experimental Bureau, driven by its real-life projectsand client communication, in comparison to largely artificial tasks confined tothe academic realm

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DOI: 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_173

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Matthias, Kulcke; Martens, Bob; "Digital Empowerment for the “Experimental Bureau” Work Based Learning in Architectural Education", p-117-126. In: Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference, “Architecture in the Age of the 4Th Industrial Revolution”, Porto 2019, Sousa, José Pedro; Henriques, Gonçalo Castro; Xavier, João Pedro (eds.). São Paulo: Blucher, 2019.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_173