Teaching Methods
This section explores the innovative ways in which College of Environmental Design faculty engaged in new ways of teaching and learning, used social science research methods to understand and define user needs, integrated the contributions of various allied fields to create responsive designs, and evaluated the fit between people and the places they inhabit. Here, several themes of Berkeley’s innovative social factors curriculum are showcased:
- Environmental autobiography: user needs and experiences in landscape architecture
- Post-occupancy evaluation: learning in the field
- Rethinking studios: teaching architecture as a social art
- Ethnography and environment: teaching a sociological perspective of design
- Community design centers: engagement beyond the classroom