“Back when this school started in 2009, its small group of faculty members knew each other and the passion to teach was very contagious. Even non-design classes were treated like a rigorous design studio. Five years later, the program has fully grown and so have its challenges. One of these challenges is ensuring that the design classes produce works that not only are communicated effectively visually, but that have also undergone a design process and argumentation of dialectics.
We want to maintain a strong studio culture, which, unfortunately, is not yet widely practiced among local schools. Alarmingly, teachers new to SDA, who do not share or come from the same culture, brought in outdated practices of design classes. Institutionalization seemed to be an inevitable measure to prevent this trend, but since most of our design professors are practitioners themselves, scheduling for evaluation is a dilemma. Therefore, we proposed an annual gathering wherein all the members of the SDAAR community (not limited to faculty and students, but including architects, design editors, and parents) come together to review the achievements of our department.
This endeavor obliges our architecture teachers to participate and, more importantly, to assess their own performance as a teacher, as the projects will surely reflect our motivations, sensibilities, and our breadth of knowledge as a designer and role model for tomorrow's architects.”
-Jim Caumeron
Caumeron, J. (2015, July). Po.Re Opens. Bluprint , (Issue 2 2015), 115.
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