Virtual Study Abroad and Exchange Studio (1998)
article⁄Virtual Study Abroad and Exchange Studio (1998)
abstract⁄The digital design studio has an area of application whereconventional media are incapable of being used collaborationin learning, design and dialogue with people in places other thanwhere one lives. This distinctive opportunity has lead the authorsto explore a form of design brief and virtual design studio VDSformat not well addressed in the literature. Instead of sharing thesame design brief, students in this alternative format design aproject in the other students’ city and do not collaborate on thesame design. Collaboration with other students takes the form ofteaching each other about the city and culture served by thedesign. The authors discovered these studios produce a focus onsite context that serves our pedagogical objectivesa blend ofarchitectural, landscape architectural and urban design knowledge. Their students use a range of commercial CAD and computer supported collaborative work CSCW software commonto that used in many VDS experiments reported on in the literature.However, this conventional use of technology is contrastedwith a second distinctive characteristic of these studios, the use ofcustom software tools specifically designed to support synchronous and asynchronous threedimensional model exchange andlinked attribute knowledge. The paper analyzes some of the virtual design studio VDS work between the Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology, the University of Toronto, and the University ofMelbourne. The authors articulate a framework of VDS dimensions that structures their teaching and research.
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| Year |
1998 |
| Authors |
Dave, Bharat; Danahy, John. |
| Issue |
Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference? |
| Pages |
100-115 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
virtual-study-abroad-exchange-studio |
