THE TEA EVALUATION TOOLKIT: ASSESSING TRANSDISCIPLINARY, EXPERIENTIAL AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN URBAN DESIGN STUDIOS
Palazzo E, Shirleyana S
Education and Urban Society, 2022, DOI: 10.1177/00131245221106732, journals.sagepub.com/home/eus
TEA Urban Design Studio #2: Lewisham West, Inner West Sydney, New South Wales. Students during co-design sessions. Photo credits: Elisa Palazzo
ABSTRACT
New pedagogic approaches combining Transdisciplinary, Experiential and Adaptive perspectives are emerging to respond to increasingly complex urban conditions. By addressing the gap in current urban design studio education, the study defined a framework to assist teachers in designing novel teaching formats based on TEA learning approaches. The framework proposed provides a reference to set up TEA urban design studios and an assessment toolkit to assess their effectiveness in learning and teaching. The comparative analysis of two studio applications shows interdependence of TEA learning and teaching dimensions and generates transferrable recommendations to support a new urban design studio pedagogy that effectively responds to contemporary societal and environmental challenges.
TEA studio evaluation indicators and related values for each learning dimension consolidated in an assessment radar chart
KEYWORDS
transdisciplinarity, adaptive learning, experiential learning, urban design studio, urban installations, co-design, scaffolding studio
Correlations and interdependence of transdisciplinary, experiential, and adaptive learning dimensions in the TEA design studio applications