Teaching Beyond the Curriculum
Abstract
Despite the theoretical advancements in non-conventional pedagogies since the 70’s (critical pedagogy, research on learning styles, etc.), as well as the increasing innovations on educational methods and technologies in the last decades (distant education, MOOC’s, etc.), learning models and experiences for architectural history and cultural heritage remains a rather under-addressed area. With the intention of exploring a new model, an Erasmus+ KA220-HED project named “Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness” has been submitted and granted in September 2022. It offers an innovative, multi-disciplinary teaching methodology that challenges the traditional, inefficient courses based on memorization, which even alienates students from history and architectural heritage studies (Thompson, 2017). Instead, it proposes a flexible, learner-centered curriculum, implementable to all learners, including those left outside the formal higher education system. The “Palimpsest Cities” course aims to enhance learning by employing gamification (Prensky, 2001) and storytelling; designed in modules (Timeline Travel, digital-storytelling, field trips, City-on-Trial, model making) which can be re-organized and adjusted according to the length and context of the learning scenario it is applied. Conducted in collaboration with Istanbul Technical University from Turkey, Center for Education and Innovation from Greece, and Asociatia De-a Arhitectura from Romania, under the coordination of Alanya University from Turkey, this 28-months project will be presented and discussed at its current stage, as the new curriculum for two new courses is being tested with pilot lectures and local implementations.
Muzaffer Özgüleş received his PhD in Architectural History from Istanbul Technical University in 2013 with his thesis “The Building Activities of Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan”. He was the Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, in 2014-15. His research was published as “The Women Who Built the Ottoman World” (I.B.Tauris, 2017). He coordinated EU projects “Timeline Travel: An Alternative Tool for Architectural History Learning and Teaching”(2017-19) & “Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness”.(2022-25)
Sevgi Türkkan, architect, researcher, educator, completed her PhD in 2017 entitled “Making and Breaking Authorship, Potentials in Architectural Design Studio” in Istanbul Technical University. She has been teaching in graduate and undergraduate levels in ITU Faculty of Architecture since 2004. In 2009-2010 she received Fulbright Visiting Scholarship to attend Columbia GSAPP in New York, and in 2018-2019 received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the French Embassy at Research Laboratory IPRAUS-UMR3329 in Paris on the ”Pedagogy of the Loge” the spatio-pedagogical mechanism devised for architectural authorship in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Her published works in books (Routledge, Springer, Cambridge Scholars), journals and conferences dwell mainly on architectural theory, architectural design education, questions of authorship and use in architecture. She has been invited to international conferences as keynote speaker, and to universities in Europe, USA and UK lecturer and jury reviewer.
Vera MARIN is an architect (1999), with a master degree in Integrated Urban Development (2001), project management (2008). She holds a PhD (2009) in planning for urban regeneration and housing policies. She teaches at the University of Architecture and Urbanism (since 2000) where she also introduced a new discipline (2012) entitled institutional frameworks for sustainable development. Vera has initiated (2001) ATU – Urban Transition Association – an action research organisation and worked as a trainer, consultant, and project coordinator for good governance and participatory processes. She is founding member(2013) and vice-president of De-a Arhitectura Association which focuses on built environment education for children, youth and adults.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday 15th November, 2023