The diagonal axis from VERB to VOID : interdisciplinarity in basic design studio education
ISSN: 2631-6862
Article publication date: 15 September 2022
Issue publication date: 21 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to discuss the potentials of interdisciplinary exercises that bring together art and design methodologies in expanding as well as redefining the given methods and principles of basic design in architecture education. The primary purpose is to improve the conventional, well-established principles and methodologies of basic design studios into fresh perspectives.
Design/methodology/approach
Focussing on the case study of a basic design studio assignment that translated Richard Serra's Verb List (1967-68) into space-generating operations, the authors analyse how a diagonal interdisciplinary approach to studio pedagogy opened up the basic design studio into the exploration of new concepts and approaches. The assignment encouraged architecture students to productively and creatively engage with a significant art historical work for the purposes of design thinking and exploration.
Findings
Findings reveal that the students explored the possible reciprocal influences between materials, actions, and issues of form and organisation, thereby operating in an interface between art, architecture and design surveying the possible interactions between these disciplines. Based on the outcome of this studio exercise, the authors argue that designing assignments that would bring together various and sometimes even conflicting approaches of different fields allow us to reassess and conceptualise anew the pedagogical aims and modi operandi.
Originality/value
The research is original in the ways in which it suggests many possibilities of dialogue, interaction and collaboration between art, design and architecture studios.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank all the students and research assistants Ensar Temizel, Nihan Büşra Aydın, Seren Ertan, Zuhal Acar, Öncü Özalp and Elif Bekar for their hard work and contributions to the studio.
Citation
Çakmakli, A.B., Gursel Dino, I., Komez Daglioglu, E., Pinar, E. and Yoncacı Arslan, P. (2023), "The diagonal axis from
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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