| Title | Integrated Design Learning through Making & Building @ SALA: Bringing design-making and building infrastructure (tools and expertise) directly to students in the classroom, studio, and in the field |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Applied Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 3 Years |
| Initiation | 04/01/2017 |
| Completion | 08/31/2020 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2017/2018 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Blair Satterfield |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 46,150 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Blair Satterfield, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) |
| Year 1: Summary | An interdependence of ‘excellent designing’ and ‘excellent making’ has been a core value of SALA’s pedagogy since the 1960s. However, contemporary ‘making’ practices and technologies (3-d printing, laser cutting, robotic milling, actuated media, VR, etc.) have radically shifted and SALA’s integration of these technologies into our curricula has been piecemeal and limited. Demand far exceeds supply and the education and experience we offer students lags behind their, and their future employers’, expectations. GROUP IDLMB@SALA will transform the ways that SALA teaches and integrates its core design, design media, and design technology curricula. Faculty, staff and students must be meaningfully engaged and educated by this initiative from the outset. As we are not a large or well-resourced community, we will need a supplementary consultative and research apparatus to help us establish best practices for the teaching of technology and software as pedagogical options if this initiative is to succeed. Our intent is to apply support from this TLEF grant to address these shortcomings and in doing, position SALA students as leaders in the use and application of design media and technology. We will form a steering group with representation from Academic Infrastructure and Academic Affairs (curriculum) committees, students, and technical (shop) staff with academic coordinator and student assistant support. This core group will lead a school wide effort to accomplish the objectives outlined below. |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2018/2019 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Blair Satterfield |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 104,125 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Blair Satterfield, Associate Professor, SALA |
| Year 2: Summary | Year 2 pilots and evaluates new courses and infrastructure approaches. |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 3: Project Year | Year 3 |
| Year 3: Funding Year | 2019/2020 |
| Year 3: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 3: Principal Investigator | Blair Satterfield |
| Year 3: Funded Amount | 31,328 |
| Year 3: Team Members | Blair Satterfield, Assistant Professor, SALA |
| Year 3: Summary | Year 3 refines, expands and rolls out a new curriculum. By 2020, every student, at every level of every SALA program will have access to meaningful, coordinated design fabrication experiences, training and infrastructure. |
| Project Report | 2019-TLEF-Final-Report-Satterfield-WEB.pdf |