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Request
for Propsosals
Ecological
Literacy: Greening the Architectural Curriculum
Proposals due: March 1
Submit to: Sandra Mallory
and Mark Dekay
Page Links:
| Eco Design Education | Greening
Curric. | Elegant Parts | RFP
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RFP 1:
Prospects for Ecological Design Education
We are looking for two or three insightful essays on ecological
design education that can frame our discussion and developmental
work during the retreat. Essays can be of any written length,
but each will be presented in a 30 minute period, with extended
follow-up discussion. Final essays will be due before the
retreat for advance distribution to participants. Papers will
be published via the SBSE web site. Each essay should address
the following:
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Your current
(concise) understanding of the ground and defining characteristics
of ecological design. |
| 2. |
Shortcomings
and causes of the contemporary dominant design education
model(s) in educating students capable of designing ecologically.
Keep it to the most important few. |
| 3. |
The most
important necessary changes to design education to address
these shortcomings. Keep it to the most important few. |
| 4. |
Proposals
on how SBSE could best leverage and help initiate the
changes proposed. |
Please submit a
one-page (500-600) word abstract summarizing your essay.
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2:
Greening Your Curriculum
We are seeking three or four curricular approaches, or
specific courses, to be the focus of critique and redesign
by retreat participants. The value for presenters is the feedback
available from SBSE's hundreds of collective years of educational
experience. Each of the four presenters will document their
existing course, entire curriculum (B. Arch, post-professional
M. Arch, etc.), or portion of a curriculum (3rd year curriculum,
studio sequence, etc.) and present to the participants. Come
prepared to outline the current educational objectives, content,
pedagogic structure, teaching approach, learning methods,
and any relevant evaluation results - along with proposed
new learning objectives.
A written and graphic
documentation will be required before the retreat for advance
distribution to participants. Your presentation should include
a critique of the existing course or curriculum and three
important educational questions to frame participants' responses.
We will then structure one or more extended sessions to scheme
and outline new or revised alternative approaches to your
course(s). These will focus on producing useful products that
you can take back and implement.Notes and graphics from your
session will be recorded, and you will be expected to write,
with the assistance of your scribe, a summary report on the
outcomes of your session. Both course presentation and session
outcomes will be published via the SBSE web site.
Please submit an
abstract of your course(s) and educational questions proposed
for the retreat. Include a statement addressing how examining
your course or curriculum might be instructive to other SBSE
members.
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3: Elegant Parts
 One
session during the retreat will be focused
on sharing effective and engaging tools
or class exercises. Do you have a favorite
teaching or learning method that works
particularly well at fostering ecoliteracy,
redirecting perception from objects to
relationships, building an appreciation
of nature, or generating green design
concepts? Would you like to share how
you have taught about the living processes
in buildings or how buildings can respond
to their living context?
Submit your idea
and get an official SBSE retreat soapbox (or the use of one
for 15 minutes). We are specifically looking for tools, design
processes, teaching tricks, faculty meeting political tactics,
and learning methods that go beyond the familiar and published
approaches to improving efficiency or evaluating performance
in an ECS class or studio. This could be: ways to engage the
interconnectedness of issues, ways to understand familiar
approaches within their ecological context, ways to establish
fundamental ecoliterate idea webs, etc. Be prepared to provide
your audience with everything necessary to steal your idea
and propagate it in their own school.
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