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Teaching Sustainability: Applying Studio Pedagogy to Develop an Alternative Post-Hurricane Housing Solution Using Surplus Shipping Containers

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  • Pernille Christensen
  • Elaine Worzala

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This paper illustrates the use of studio teaching as a technique for promoting an interdisciplinary approach to teaching students about sustainability. It emphasizes an iterative decision-making process to help students think 'outside the box' when exploring sustainable solutions. The paper focuses on a particular case adopted by a combined studio of architecture and landscape architecture students to help provide sustainable housing solutions for post-hurricane victims. The studio format provides a student-centered learning environment where students, faculty, and industry professionals work together to propose alternative post-disaster housing and community restoration strategies. The students gained a heightened understanding of the need to address global challenges in an interdisciplinary manner, which is key for solving sustainability problems.

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  • Pernille Christensen & Elaine Worzala, 2010. "Teaching Sustainability: Applying Studio Pedagogy to Develop an Alternative Post-Hurricane Housing Solution Using Surplus Shipping Containers," Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(1), pages 335-360, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrexx:v:2:y:2010:i:1:p:335-360
    DOI: 10.1080/10835547.2010.12091797
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