Poster as design dialogue

Abstract

A fourth-year class in a pre-professional programme explored the idea of a visual dialogue emerging from the investigative nature of the properties and variables of individual responses to design studio challenges. All members of a Senior Design Studio collaborated in planning, designing and producing a single poster announcing a public parade of their work. This article describes the poster, as well as the use of alternative teaching and learning approaches which students learn to broaden their design and architectural repertoire to include more creative, collaborative, intuitive and flexible skills.

Keywords:

• Architecture
• collage
• collaboration
• graphic communication
• posters
• studio culture

Notes

1. Anthony, Design Juries on Trial.

2. Fisher, In the Scheme of Things, 30.

3. Cuff, Architecture: The Story of Things.

4. Leigh, “Platonic Dialogue.”

5. Gurel and Basa, “The Status.”

6. Shavelson, “What is the Basic Teaching Skill.”

7. Aldersey-Williams, H., Wild, L., Boles, D., McCoy, K., McCoy, M., Slade, R. and Diffrient, N., Cranbrook Design.

8. Boyer and Mitgang, Building Community, 85.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Andreas Luescher

Andreas Luescher is a Swiss architect, conceptual artist, and writer who is currently Professor and Graduate Director of Architecture and Environmental Design at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has written more than 80 papers for presentation at national and international conferences and for publication in leading international academic journals such as The Journal of Architecture, Journal of Design Research, International Journal of Art and Design Education and ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. His first book, The Architect’s Portfolio (2010), has been translated into Chinese. His second book, The Architect's Guide to Effective Self-Presentation, was published in 2014.