Transferring COVID-19 Challenges into Learning Potentials: Online Workshops in Architectural Education
Authors
Milovanović, Aleksandra
Kostić, Miloš
Zorić, Ana
Đorđević, Aleksandra

Pešić, Mladen

Bugarski, Jovana
Todorović, Dejan
Sokolović, Neda
Josifovski, Andrej
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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 criti...cal 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 methodsSource:
Sustainability, 2020, 12, 17Publisher:
- MDPI AG