Open AccessThe recalibration of a design studio curriculum during COVID–19 in Aotearoa
Author(s) -
Fiona Grieve
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
datjournal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2526-1789
DOI - 10.29147/dat.v6i2.410
Subject(s) - studio , curriculum , covid-19 , experiential learning , design studio , aotearoa , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , multimedia , mathematics education , visual arts , computer science , art , medicine , gender studies , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This article presents the impact COVID–19 had on a first-year communication design curricula revitalisation to progress students from a secondary level standards-based criterion to a tertiary culture predicated on active and experiential practice-led studio inquiry. Methodologically, it describes a design-based research intervention that asks what occurred in the translation of a brief written as an in-person, studio-based model into a purely online undertaking, learning from anywhere, teaching in a constant state of flux? Through a commentary on practice, the revitalisation of a design programme, and the pedagogical shift from within the traditional studio paradigm–a dynamic on-campus, in-person model into an abrupt and atypical online undertaking due to the global pandemic, this paper contributes to a discourse on a design studio approach and presents the transference of the Learning Management System that supports distance learning.