@article {O'Dwyer:2017:2054-6718:97,
title = "Educating architects in environmental design: pedagogical strategies to enable the 'grasping of the unfamiliar'",
journal = "Charrette",
parent_itemid = "infobike://arched/char",
publishercode ="arched",
year = "2017",
volume = "4",
number = "2",
publication date ="2017-10-01T00:00:00",
pages = "97-111",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "2054-6718",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/arched/char/2017/00000004/00000002/art00008",
keyword = "COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, DISTANCE LEARNING, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN EDUCATION, SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, ARCHITECTURAL PEDAGOGICAL DEVICES",
author = "O'Dwyer, Sarah",
abstract = "Contemporary architects increasingly work more frequently in a larger variety of environments and circumstances than their bygone counterparts, and now require an improved set of skills to navigate this unfamiliar territory. This paper uses a case study approach of the pedagogical devices
employed on the module "Environmental Design of Buildings" taught in Welsh School of Architecture which aims to teach contemporary architects such skills - how to work in climatically changing, unexperienced and unfamiliar contexts and within culturally diverse design teams. Devices used include
the self-brief, distance learning and a fellow student acting as site 'buddy' and interview to verify findings, and detail an approach to environmental and sustainable design at a postgraduate level. Discussion is aided by the findings of a student questionnaire which asked students to evaluate
the devices used.",
}