The University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Above image: Tasting Orange Diagram by Marissa Campbell
Gastown Smell Map by Jacob Darowski
This course teaches students to observe and record the world with all the senses and document those experiences in multiple ways: drawings, images, diagrams, audio and video recording, text, and 3D, digital, and physical modelling. Today’s world has to be understood and designed ‘inclusively’. To start this design learning process, Seeing Environment, equips students with strategies and operating tools to observe and record the environment around us in a multi-sensorial way.
The COVID-19 crisis challenged design students and instructors to adapt to a new online learning experience. This course rethinks the educational approach, introducing strategies to engage all of the senses, and prompting students to consider how these could be understood and represented from their “classroom” at home.
This blog documents the students work in autumn 2020, a follow up course after its initiation in 2018. It also uses a recent book manuscript ‘Sense..ible Design’ (expt. 2021 Routledge) and articles published by Prof. Daniel Roehr in 2020.
Thank you to Marissa Campbell, Wenting Yang, Kathryn Pierre for designing the blog.
