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Abstract

• Learning about human behavior, cultural diversity, and user perspectives are all part of the NAAB-required curriculum for educating architects. Beyond that, these skills help architects compete in a global and diverse world. Semantic ethnography offers a method for understanding the user perspective in cultural settings. We present a research and design project centered on semantic ethnography as a way to teach architecture students about how to design for user groups. A survey administered to two years of students indicates that this project is indeed helpful for teaching students about how to find and listen to the user perspective.

Creator

• Morhayim, Lusi
• Lindsay, Georgia
• Cranz, Galen
• Sagan, Hans

Date Issued

• 2017-11-01

Academic Affiliation

• Program in Environmental Design

Journal Title

• ArchNet-IJAR : International Journal of Architectural Research

Journal Issue/Number

• 3

Journal Volume

• 8

File Extent

• 6-19

Subject

• Design pedagogy; Ethnography; User perspective; Teaching architecture.

Last Modified

• 2019-12-06

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

DOI

•  http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i3.433

ISSN

• 1938-7806

Language

• English [eng]

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