THE STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

The change in knowledge generation and creative problem solving is transforming education towards collborative learining forcing design and engennering schools to address new course structures with «collaborative» aspect.

In practice, multidisiplinary aspects of sustainable design, integrated design are increasing the need for practitioners that are skilled in collaboration.

The concept of collaborative learning for the purpose of achieveing an academic goal has been analyzed though İnternational Studios conducted between three schools.

Collaboration is about the people. If it were only about technology the one with the best toys would always win. Technology can tip the change and speed it up. But in the networked world, with change moving fast, success dependes more than ever on having the right people that are open for collaboration.

Collaborative attitute takes a new mind set that says, «we can achieve more together than we can do alone.» A mind set that looks acroos boundaries of different science fields, departments, companies and nations, and sees people as partners and change as opportunity, not threats.

Collaboration is about the people, the technology, the paltforms, the politics, and everything that needs to win.

Readiness for collaboration:

1- have a vision. A vision of better way energizes people around you.2- right size the way forward. Make it do-able.3- create a platform, a phsical or virtual, where knowledge insignt is shared and steps taken together.4- make it pay. Collaboration requires there be something in it for every one.5- have the right people with in tha game.6- deliver on performance. Collaboration can promise a way better faster, more efficent or effective.7- mind political support. Ensure that you need to deliver on the promise.8- must have passion and playbook to lead.

A new bussiness role not only in Architectue Engeneering and Construction (AEC) but for all industries for competativness is to «collaborate or perish.»

Collaboration fosters innovation and creativity. It is a key operating principle for the 21st century and an important skill that an architecture students must be exposed to.

Contray higly collaborative nature of architecture practice the education of an architect has been highly individualized pursuit, focused on the deveoplment skill set.

Architecture students are being prepeared in- a manner that is contrary to the highly collaborative nature of the architectural practice they will enter.

The change in knowledge generations is forcing transformation in education, towards collaborative learning.

Collaborative learning is based on the model that knowledge can be created within a population where members actively interact by sharing experiences and take on asymmetry roles.

Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task where each individual depends on and is accountable to each other.

Collaborative learining is based on the idea that learning is a naturally social act in which the participants talk among themselves.

Collaborative studies in educaiton requires basic skills;

- İnterpersonal skills,- synthesis and presentaion skills,- Conflict resolution skills,- group management skills,- inquiry skills,-In collaborative studies students must have the skills neccesary to make the group work effective and be able regularly to analyze the group’s strengths and weaknesses to make adjustment as needed.

The students should understand that collaborative design learning is a skill , and as any other skill it must be learned.

Collaborative design learning is based on the methods of collaborative learning that is adapted for design teaching.

Architecture occurs in collaborative environment. It ıs widely acknowledged that collaborative skills are necessary foundation for succesfull architecture projects.

Collaborative architecture design requires multi-designer and multidisiplinary involvement in which the individuals act collectively as single body.

In collaborative group work students are responsible for one another’s learning as well as their own. They work together to solve a problem.

Collaborative design studio is based on student centric and student to student rather than teacher centric guided design learning.

In student centric design learning the knowledge is constructed by students. The teacher is facilitator of learning rather than a presenter of information.

The design studio coordinator take on role of promoting learning by engaging students to work in culture of collaboratin and cooperation.

Another important aspect of student centric learning is sharing the criteria based assesment process with students. The students learning comes from what they percieve. They are evaluated on shared evaluation criterias. This hel p students to have greater sense of control ower their own learning.

Architecture as discipline adapts studio based learning which is in core student centric. However, collaboration and cooperation culture that exist in the profession does not exist in studio based culture. Collaborative design studio aims to bridge this gap.

Contrary to highly collaborative nature of architectural practice , the education of an architect has been highly individualized pursuit focused on the developmet of thinking and making skill set.

The change in knowledge generation and creative problem solving forcing architecture and engeneering schools to adress new course structures with «collaborative learingn» aspects.

International Collaborative Design Studio2008-2013

Organized between: Yıldız Technival University, Sarajevo University and Twente University

The primary goal of the studio was to design green transformable building from conceptual to construction scale. Each year given topic was designed on a site chosen in one of the participating school country.

Project sites were located:

in 2008 in Sarajevo school of arch. campus,

in 2009, in İstanbul old town,

in 2010-11, in Twente University campus,

in 2012 in Yıldız Technical University campus.

The goal of the studios were:

- To expand collaboraiton among internatioanl community of architecture design educators for current urban and architecture problems,- to develop, imlement and refine processes for international team based design in architecture education by simulating internationally distributed workplace environment,- to develop collaboraiton between construction industry and university,- to expand collaboraiton among interdisciplinary community of architecture design education,

All five studios focused on optimization of construction methods;

- accomodation of multiple users; connection between components;to enable reuse of building components;- material and computational and manufacturing technologies,- assembly and disassembly planning,- flexiable structural systems that can accomodate multiple users

IDS studios were structered in «Hybrid Studio» format. Hybrid studio is an active learing environment. It requires that students are aware of what they know and what they do not know and they are able to use metacognitive strategies to monitor their own learning.

IDS studio is comprised of three modules:- lectures- workshops- remote collaboration

-Lecture- introductory module run on each school at the beginning of the semester from two to four weeks.- workshop –face to face working- seccion module was organized three times ( at the beginning, ,mid semester, and at the end of semester),- remote collaboration occured between the workshops.

Work with industry

Work with municipality

Work with coordinators

Work in teams

Team presentations

Studio finals presentations

The succes of IDS collaborative projects is defined through the success of «designing the collaborative process» with effectively designed process student groups reached a higher degree design system integration and ultimetaly this lead their work to have a greater level of depth and a higher level of technical competance of integration.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK

UNİVERSİTY OF TWENTEUNİVERSİTY OF SARAJEVO

UNİVERSİTY OF YILDIZAND

TO MY DEAREST COLLEQUES AND FRİENDS

ADNAN ELMA

AND TO ALL STUDENTS THAT MAKE THİS PROJECT

SUCCES !