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Virtual Reality As A Pedagogical Tool To Design For Social Impact: A Design Case, Tiffany Roman, Jon Racek
Virtual Reality As A Pedagogical Tool To Design For Social Impact: A Design Case, Tiffany Roman, Jon Racek
Faculty Articles
Three-dimensional (3-D) virtual environments have key affordances that can improve learning, particularly when context, culture, and pedagogical aims are aligned to a given learning situation. One challenge in detailing effective uses of 3-D virtual environments in teaching and learning contexts is that the design judgments involved are not always made explicit. We argue that the transparency of design judgments, as it relates to the use of 3-D virtual environments, are critically important. This article advances scholarship of emerging technologies by detailing the design judgments of a university instructor within a Design for Social Impact cross-disciplinary course. To address learner needs …
Authentic Learning Environments: Designing A New Standard For Public Education, Stephanie Griffith, Stephanie J. Griffith
Authentic Learning Environments: Designing A New Standard For Public Education, Stephanie Griffith, Stephanie J. Griffith
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
The intention of this thesis is to explore the architectural problems of public primary school learning environments and propose possible solutions. This thesis draws from various public blog and public web article accounts and experiences of those working in or studying the institutions of primary education and the problems they are struggling to address. The architectural focus brings to light that while most educators argue that teaching can happen anywhere, this body of research will propose an optimal learning environment in which a set of ideal values are defined as authentic learning and is used to encourage and support a …
Architects' Reflection Of Cities: Yenagoa Losing City, Lost Dream Of The Oil Rich Niger Delta, Allison John, Dimabo Fenibo, Crispin Allison, Gift Josiah
Architects' Reflection Of Cities: Yenagoa Losing City, Lost Dream Of The Oil Rich Niger Delta, Allison John, Dimabo Fenibo, Crispin Allison, Gift Josiah
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
A city's character influences behaviour while people's behaviour determines a city's character. As a development engine, the authors described cities impressions derived from media and how media caninfluence perceptions of Yenagoa, the oil rich city of the Niger Delta. The city can be described as a life support system with policies and human actions affecting a city. How Yenagoa has performed as perceived by visitors and its users 21years after. It will also include a discussion of the significance of cultural relativism in the developmental evolution of Yenagoa. It concludes by suggesting the imperative need for orientation of the Yenagoa's …
“After-Ozymandias”: The Colonization Of Symbols And The American Monument, H. R. Membreno-Canales
“After-Ozymandias”: The Colonization Of Symbols And The American Monument, H. R. Membreno-Canales
Theses and Dissertations
After-Ozymandias examines the visual rhetoric of American patriotism through its many symbols, including flags and monuments. My thesis project consists of photographs of empty plinths, objects, products and archival materials. Countless relics remain today memorializing leaders and empires that inevitably declined, from antiquity to modern times. Looking back at distant history feels like a luxury, though: the question for our time in America is whether we have the strength of mind as a society to scrutinize our history, warts and all.
Papine Market: Culture, Climate, Resource, Denique Lindsay
Papine Market: Culture, Climate, Resource, Denique Lindsay
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
Markets maintain a setting for communities to make a living as well as provide daily life essentials. It is an act common in the culture and economy of places all around the globe. In the Caribbeans Greater Antilles it has prevailed historically as a necessary operation for the regions inhabitants. But many of the present day market settings, like that which is found on the island of Jamaica, have promoted unhealthy and uninviting environment for the market in habitants and for the surrounding contexts. One in particular has played a very important role in my family’s daily life, Papine Market …
Cultural Embrace, Jeremy Penja
Cultural Embrace, Jeremy Penja
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
Cultural embrace creating an identity on a larger scale in modern society. Architecture is a symbolic catalyst of a threshold, it is bound by the physical presence as well as “enriched by both the memory and dreams, past and future” Juhani Pallasmaa. It captures the sensibility of expectation and fulfillment, sense of symbols that resonated within. It evokes the absolutely necessary association of visual-tactile and identity to connect the history to present. It is an absolute cultural responsiveness and symbolism that cultural embrace strives for. Spaces have become empty container lacking true essence. The current architecture does little to address …
Mars: Where Humans Become Martians, Briana G. Keith
Mars: Where Humans Become Martians, Briana G. Keith
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
What qualities will influence the culture that a Martian architecture responds to? Soon enough, as dwellers begin to influence this barren habitation, a new and divergent society will soon cultivate in response to the environment of The Red Planet. These changes will bloom in accordance to Mars’ Seeds of Culture- one that reinvents the connection between the inside and outside world. These “seeds” are defined by the atmospheric and geographic conditions that we will be susceptible to everyday: rusty red days and calming blue sunsets, powerful dust storms that encompass the entire planet, no vegetation to speak of, and low …