Project Team
Katherine Perrott, School of Planning
Project Summary
This project creates an online toolkit of software and technical skills instruction for planning and urban design students, called the “Design Studio Skill Kit.” In the urban design stream of the undergraduate planning program, students are taught technical skills in different courses and lose access to files and links on LEARN once the course is over, even though they are expected to repeat and build on skills in subsequent studio courses. This project will investigate an innovative approach to enhancing teaching and learning by creating a single website that students will have access to throughout their studies to reference and learn from. This will help streamline expectations and recommended techniques from different instructors, which will improve clarity in assessments for students. The Design Studio Skill Kit will foster deep learning through ease of access to curated and UW-tailored skills.
References
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Pafka, E. and Dovey, K. (2018). Chapter 15: Urban Design Pedagogy. In E. Pafka and K. Dovey (Eds.), Mapping Urbanities (268-277). New York: Routledge.
Roberts, M. (2016). Urban design pedagogy. Journal of Urban Design 21(5), 567-569.