Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum, Fall 2003

Abstract:: This semester students are asked to transform the Hereshoff Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, through processes of erasure and addition. Hereshoff Manufacturing was recognized as one of the premier builders of America's Cup racing boats between 1890's and 1930's. The studio however, is about more then the program. It is about land, water, and wind and the search for expressing materially and tectonically the relationships between these principle conditions. That is, where the land is primarily about stasis (docking, anchoring and referencing our locus), water's fluidity holds the latent promise of movement and freedom. Movement is activated by wind, allowing for negotiating the relationship between water and land.

Springfield Studio, Spring 2004

Abstract:: The Springfield Studio is a practicum design course that focuses on the physical, programmatic, and social renewal of an urban community in Springfield, Massachusetts by combining classroom work with an applied class project. The course content covers the areas of physical design/urban design and the related analysis and planning tools used to understand and assess urban conditions from a design and development perspective. Urban design issues are investigated in the context of social and economic challenges within the community. Thus, the course has dual goals: Analyze physical conditions in the community, assess community need, propose physical design interventions; and Assess community capacity and programmatic needs. The ultimate goal is to explore the integration of social, programmatic and physical development interventions in ways that reinforce community revitalization efforts, and to apply this knowledge through the development of a formal neighborhood revitalization plan that addresses community needs.

Abstract:: Students worked in teams to identify an educational challenge, research it, propose a solution using mobile technology, implement and evaluate it.

Abstract:: This site was used by the "mobile learning" course in the academic year 2010-2011 at the Technologies in Education programme, the Dept. of Learning, Instruction and Teacher Education of the University of Haifa. The site is offered to the public as an open educational resource . You will find here the lesson plans, list of articles and resources we used, and tips and insights which we shared with each other.
The course was based on a design approach, and in its centre - a learning design mini-studio, in which students worked in teams on mobile learning projects which they conceived, planned, executed and researched.