Collaborative Studios

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Collaborative Studios

• Mark A. Hoistad
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Opportunities and Challenges

• Impacts of Integrated Practice Delivery (IPD) or
  Building Information Modeling (BIM) On Practice
• Parametric Modeling makes each line more
  important
• The time of both design and documentation is
  compressed
• The ability to do real time simulations has the
  potential to shift design away from aesthetics
  toward performance.
• Creation of inverted expertise situations

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Opportunities and Challenges

• Implications of BIM or IPD for Education
• Movement away from individual authorship toward
  collective authorship
• Movement away from separately educated
  disciplines to jointly educated disciplines
• Movement away from discrete course content
  delivery to integrated course delivery
• Potential shifts in approach

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Important Differences

• Need to realize the focus of the university is
  different from practice
• Core Focus
• Practice Health, Safety, Welfare, and Profit
• University Learning, Exploration/Discovery,
  Demonstration of
• Mastery
• Products
• Practice built environment, expertise,
  compensation, service
• University graduates, research/creative
  activity, service
• Motivations
• Practice Profit, Fame, Better World (community
  of practical entrepreneurs)
• University Educated Public, Discovery, Better
  World (community of optimistic skeptics)

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One Attempt, Collaborative Studio

• Goals of a Multi/Trans/Interdisciplinary Studio
• Collaborative Learning (process)
• Collaborative Outcomes (product)
• Development of Disciplinary Leadership
  (understanding)

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One Attempt, Collaborative Studio

• (Fun)damentals Setting the Stage
• Why do we need to collaborate?
• Expectations
• Organization

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One Attempt, Collaborative Studio

• Framing the Learning Environment
• Need to challenge the students with the project
  scope and complexity
• Need to structure consistent and coordinated
  production
• Need to require the demonstration of leadership
  and expertise

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One Attempt, Collaborative Studio

• Logistics
• Setup communication network
• Technical support

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One Attempt, Collaborative Studio

• Reviews
• Variation and Type
• Shifting Leadership

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Lessons Learned

• need for consistent effort
• choreography of product with the process
• need to set up meeting infrastructure both formal
  and informal and make sure everyone knows how to
  use it
• need to establish appropriate balance of
  skills/understanding in using the primary
  platform for the model

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Lessons Learned