A social scientist in the studio

Tóm tắt

Studio-based learning is now the standard in architecture education in the world as well as in Vietnam. The design studio is now not just a place to work or meet between lecturers and students or between students themselves to solve design problems, but has truly become a "home" for students in their study time at school. The teacher not only plays the role of a lecturer but also must be a social scientist and apply social science trends in teaching, especially teaching in cross-cultural contexts like Vietnam;this is truly something special. This paper will introduce several branches of particular interest to me such as ethnography, developmental psychology and cognitive science as they might pertain toarchitecture education, using the lenses of a school of applied social science,in order to re-examine local norms and expectations. Exposure to those fields has given me a foundation with many vantage points from which to reflect on architectural education in particular and schooling in the creative arts in general.