Curriculum Development V
Organic Garden
We are delighted to announce that SBSE will be conducting their 5th annual summer retreat.
The 1990 retreat is being jointly funded by small grants from the Dept. of Energy and from Steve Selkowitz's Windows and Daylighting Program at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
THEME & BACKGROUND
This year's retreat has two primary, and overlapping objectives:
1) To review and critique the hypermedia-based Advanced Envelope Design Tool (AEDT) developed by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), evaluate its effectiveness as a tool for educators, and offer recommendations for modifications;
2) To review SBSE members' application of the "design patterns" initially produced at the 1st ('86) and 2nd ('87) SBSE Retreats, evaluate their relative success in the classroom and/or studio environment, and collectively develop a plan for producing complete packaged units that can be disseminated to all SBSE members.
A secondary objective relates to the recent decision to establish DNNA as a network within the organizational structure of SBSE. The details of this merger need to be worked out by the officers of the two organizations. with welcomed input from other interested members. We hope that a sufficient number of SBSE and DNNA officers will be present at the retreat, and a limited amount of time will be set aside to discuss the logistics of the merger.
Below is a little background regarding the two primary objectives of the retreat:
The essential elements of the AEDT are hypermedia-based case studies, with a current emphasis on daylighting. The AEDT includes a range of presentation techniques, including visual, aural, animation, and video. (Some of you may have seen LBL's AEDT presented at the 1989 ACSA Summer Institute). Details are currently being worked out concerning the method by which this review will take place during the retreat, but we hope to provide interested participants with copies of the AEDT beforehand to test it out independently. In addition to the on-site review, we anticipate that participants will also be invited to collaborate on the development of a large shared case study data base. LBL will provide a HyperCard template, duplicate and distribute the Hypercard case study stacks to all case study contributors, and provide technical assistance for the process of transferring images to suitable Mac and/or videodisk format.
For those of you unfamiliar with the SBSE design pattern, it has also been described as a learning unit, a pattern for learning to design as opposed to a pattern for design itself. for instance, the pattern might suggest: the poetics of place-making, with the environmental of elements place as of it heat, complements light, and a sound; building's the thermal exterior and appearance; visual sensuality; the and integration beauty of of the practical and aesthetic conflicts of visual and thermal comfort and efficiency. The organization and
content of a design pattern (as developed in previous SBSE retreats) is complex, and has the following components: excites and creates interest, offers an explanatlon of energy-related phenomena contained within the pattern, provides examples which illustrate the pattern, shows how to achieve the pattern through design, and presents methods for evaluating the performance of a proposed design. As examples, patterns have begun to be developed for concepts such as "Little Big Window", "How the West Was Windowed", and "Thermal Oasis". Participants will receive copies of the reports generated from the 1st and 2nd SBSE retreats as background and inspiration. Participants who have previously used versions of these patterns in the classroom or studio will be asked to briefly present their experiences.
Discussions during the retreat may also identify opportunities for using the design pattern as an organizational formal for the hypermedia design tool, or for adopting the hypermedia operating environment within one of the components of the design pattern.