Transferring COVID-19 Challenges into Learning Potentials: Online Workshops in Architectural Education

Aleksandra Milovanović, Miloš Kostić, Ana Zorić, Aleksandra Đorđević, Mladen Pešić, Jovana Bugarski, Dejan Todorović, Neda Sokolović and Andrej Josifovski
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Aleksandra Milovanović: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Miloš Kostić: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Ana Zorić: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra Đorđević: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Mladen Pešić: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Jovana Bugarski: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Dejan Todorović: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Neda Sokolović: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Andrej Josifovski: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-21

Abstract: The paper addresses the shift in architectural education regarding the need to develop new approaches in teaching methodology, improve curricula, and make advancements in new learning arenas and digital environments. The research is based on the assumption that online workshops could offer a unique learning experience for students in higher education. Accordingly, workshops are considered an essential element in teaching emergency design. As a result, this can produce broader and more innovative solutions to COVID-19 challenges regarding social distancing, limited movements, regulated use of public space, and suspended daily activities. The theoretical notions of emergency design and education for sustainable design enabled the identification of research perspectives and spatial levels to be taken as a starting point of the workshop “COVID-19 Challenges: Architecture of Pandemic” that was conducted by the University of Belgrade—Faculty of Architecture in April 2020. The critical review of the workshop’s procedural and substantial aspects led to identifying four main COVID-19 design challenges perceived in performance, innovation, alteration, and inclusion. Additionally, the paper’s findings concern the identification of learning potentials and limitations arising from a current topic affecting global society, for which neither solutions nor adequate answers in the field of architecture and urbanism have been found.

Keywords: emergency architecture; workshops; COVID-19; education; teaching methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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