RIBA Studio Tutor Symposium Session 6 with Steve Bowkett and Jane Tankard
Catch up on our final RIBA Studio Tutor Symposium of the series, with speakers Jane Tankard and Steve Bowkett.
Steve Bowkett's lecture is entitled The Beautiful Accident; Cybernetics, Synectic’s and Serendipity –defining creative design pedagogy through ‘Oblique Strategies’
The presentation begins with the process of reclaiming a number of diverse and often unconventional teaching methods that evolved from post war scientific / academic debates, one’s that lead to the innovative practices of a number of art and architectural schools in the 1960’s. The radical pedagogies in education at that time were borne out of a culture that examined and challenged conventional thinking and were given licence to question the very structure of how we understand the creative process. Design education should, this presentation suggests, encourage students to practice acts of creative disorientation so that they are prepared to exploit the virtues of a serendipitous world.
Steve Bowkett is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Southbank University, is the author of ‘Archidoodle’ and ‘Archidoodle City’ and is a partner in Tankard Bowkett.
The second lecture: ‘…a few people, a brief moment in time: A Search for a Feminist Pedagogy in Architectural Education’, by Jane Tankard explores the development of Tankard's ongoing research into the relationship between architectural education and the political constructs that contextualise it. It attempts to examine the need for a radical feminist pedagogy in studio education, specifically referencing the Situationist notion of Decomposition “The process in which traditional cultural forms have destroyed themselves as a result of the emergence of superior means of controlling nature which make possible and necessary superior cultural constructions”. Internationale Situationniste *1 (Paris June 1958).
Jane Tankard is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Westminster. Co-Author of Towards a New Architect, she is currently researching the relationship between studio pedagogy and political and social contexts.
The online talk is aimed at anyone with an interest in tutoring pedagogy such as students, academics and architects.
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-https://www.brookes.ac.uk/architectur...