Common ground on campus

摘要

In the studio-based education of an architectural school, students have little chance to engage in theoretical or philosophical discourse with anyone other than their peers and design tutors. But exposure to alternative theories and ideas from practice and academia, and from other disciplines, can bring a deeper understanding of architecture and its relationship with society. For the last four years the school of architecture at the University of Sheffield has tried to encourage just such a dialogue through a weekly afternoon 'open forum' lecture, accessible to undergraduates, diploma students, researchers, staff and the general public.