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PAPERS: The Expanding Role of the Architect in Multidisciplinary Collaboration Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Zoom Link Session Chair: Manuela Triggianese, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Session Chair: Lee Moreau, Northeastern University | |
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Testing the unbuilt: Design studios as research for Wicked Opportunities 1: School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia This research examines the design studio as a form of architectural design research. Architectural and Urban Design studios have been operating as epistemic laboratories in which the processes of evaluating wicked problems, proposing design interventions, and iteratively testing the fit between the brief and design intersect to generate new knowledge. It is often impractical to evaluate the long-term implications of built works on complex, interrelated societal issues, as such assessments are time-consuming, costly, and rarely yield transferable insights. Hence, many architects and urban designers investigate design opportunities in design studios, allowing them to test, reframe and expand their understanding of a wicked problem in a less constrained yet more feasible way. Anchored in Schön’s theory of Reflective Practice, this Architectural and Urban Design research on postgraduate design studios analyses how designing act as wicked problem reframers, and reveal how designing reorganises understandings of complex architectural questions. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1609
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