Learning about human behavior, cultural diversity, and user perspectives are all part of the NAAB-required curriculum for educating architects. Beyond that, these skills help architects compete in a global and diverse world. Semantic ethnography offers a method for understanding the user perspective in cultural settings. We present a research and design project centered on semantic ethnography as a way to teach architecture students about how to design for user groups. A survey administered to two years of students indicates that this project is indeed helpful for teaching students about how to find and listen to the user perspective.
History
Publication title
International Journal of Architectural Research
Volume
8
Pagination
06-19
ISSN
1938-7806
Department/School
School of Architecture and Design
Publisher
ArchNet
Place of publication
USA
Rights statement
Copyright 2014 Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Repository Status
Open
Socio-economic Objectives
Expanding knowledge in built environment and design