Innovating and Assessing Pedagogical Responses in Online Design Education: An Online Symposium Organized by Epidemic Urbanism Initiative.

February 01, 2021

Innovating and Assessing Pedagogical Responses in Online Design Education: An Online Symposium Organized by Epidemic Urbanism Initiative.

This conversation was part of an online symposium organized by the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative on January 29-30, 2021, entitled, “International Perspectives on the Future of Architecture and Urbanism in the Post-COVID Age.”

This session was moderated by Ashraf Salama (Scotland) and comprised of the following papers:

Equitable Remote Design Education in the Post-COVID the American Great Plains- Bud Shenefelt (USA)
Implications for Placemaking Pedagogy in an Archipelagic Setting during Pandemics in the Philippines- Richard V. Cagara, Shirley Maraya, Maria Joelyca Sescon, and Iderlina Mateo-Babiano (Philippines and Australia)
An Online Student Workshop as a Pedagogical Experiment Necessitated by COVID-19 in Serbia - Mladen Pešić, Aleksandra Đorđević, Aleksandra Milovanović, Miloš Kostić, Dejan Todorović, Ana Zorić, Jovana Bugarski, Neda Sokolović, and Andrej Josifovski (Serbia)
Pedagogical Responses to COVID-19 and Rethinking Norms of Architectural Education in the UAE - Ahmad Sukkar and Emad Mushtaha (UAE)
Assessing the Experience of Virtual Learning Techniques in an Urban Design Studio in the USA - Hessam Ghamari and Nasrin Golshany (USA)

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).