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2008 NCARB Prize Winner:
Arizona State University
"Applied Research Collaborative"
The designer in the 21st century does not work alone. The complexity and expertise required to produce innovative design is too vast for any one individual, therefore new collaborative design models are needed. The Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) is one such model. ARC is a trans-disciplinary design thesis studio in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture. The studio attempts to test and demonstrate new collaborative models of working that challenge conventional modes of pedagogical and professional practice. The studio includes students from various schools and departments within the College of Design: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Energy, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Planning, and Visual Communication Design. This trans-disciplinary student team collaborates with local design professionals and city and state organizations on actual projects that serve as testing grounds for developing deeper investigations than are currently conducted through conventional academic or professional endeavors. ARC aims to develop a hyper-collaborative environment that embraces multidisciplinary expertise toward establishing a common design objective. Through the collective expertise of the trans-disciplinary teams, design is approached as the synthesis of qualitative experiences and quantitative research processes. This methodology is an attempt to inform the design process not only through intuitive and imaginative means, but also through studied application of research and analysis. The studio instructors are from a number of different design disciplines and emphasis in the studio is placed on collaborative skills that are taught by a college professor trained as a clinical psychologist who meets with the team throughout the semester. This collaborative model is producing a deeper and more developed proposal than any one designer could produce individually.
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