Integrating Service-Learning Earlier in Architectural Curriculums through Engaged Design

Service-learning provides a variety of benefits for student learning while providing the opportunity to serve local communities. Community design, design-build, and live project represent service-learning models within architectural education that have been the most widely explored and discussed, but the scope of these models often limits their flexibility to connect to multiple-levels of an architectural curriculum. This has led to architectural curriculums where service-learning only occurs at the advanced levels of a curriculum. This research explores the possibility for new service-learning models that can accommodate a greater range of connections with architectural curricula, faculty, and students. The research first presents a brief history of service-learning models. Then an alternative service-learning model described as “engaged-design” is presented through a case study involving three museums. The work then concludes with a discussion highlighting how engaged-design models might be used in combination with other service-learning models to create an architectural curriculum more centered around community engagement at multiple levels.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.64

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1