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Itinerant dimensions of field/work in architecture

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Emma Bush, Master of Architecture fieldtrip to Cadiz, Spain, 2006. – Ewing (2011), in ‘ Architecture and Field/Work’, p.4 The fieldtrip can act as a balance to this alleged weakness, and becomes a place for critical transformation of aspects of architectural knowledge and practice.

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Un-silencing: Capturing landscape vastness

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

These students can easily feel lost amid the complex demands of the experience. I un-silence myself only when necessary… Francisca Lima Dr Francisca Lima is a landscape designer and a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, where she currently teaches history and theory of landscape architecture.

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Mini-series: Water Logic: Designing for sustainability along the Union Canal

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The course is firmly embedded in a tangible place and contexts, encouraging students to start defining their own investigative agendas. In previous years (2014-2016), students set their talents to reimagine Galashiels to 2040. The design project brings together strands woven in semester 1 in a comprehensive and sustained study.

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Do we really empower sabbatical offices to be the voice of students?

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by Rebecca Turner, Jennie Winter & Nadine Schaefer Student voice is firmly embedded within the architecture of universities, with multiple mechanisms existing through which we (as educators) can hear, and students can leverage their voice. Dr Nadine Schaefer is an Educational Developer at the University of Plymouth.