look and listen over proposition

Understanding of place through on-field observation and listening is the core focus of the program. This questions pedagogical approaches in architectural education that prioritise design proposition. Through ethnographic research methods, students observe street environments over extended time periods and engage directly with street users. The International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies describes this as a people-centred approach key to building resilience, “listening to and understanding what people think at all times, rather than imposing ideas or projects on them” (IFRC, 2016, p14).

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Road Map to Community Resilience (2016), https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/wp-content/uploads/si tes/5/2018/03/1310403-Road-Map-to-Community-Resilience-Final-Version_EN08.pdf).