Studio Culture Policy

We in the School of Architecture and Design support a student-centered studio learning culture that is based on the following principles:

• Students should lead balanced lives.
• Time is more than a constantly endangered resource.
• There is a world outside of the design studio.
• Design is the integration of many parts.
• Design process is as important as product.
• Collaboration is the art of design.
• Design is inherently an interdisciplinary act.
• Even educators can learn.
• The good of students must prevail.
• Grades can impede productive assessment.
• Critiques are learning experiences, not target practice.
• To design for many, parts of all must be included.

Furthermore, the students and faculty support, encourage, and strive to foster a studio that engages a culture of optimism, a culture of respect, a culture of sharing, a culture of engagement, and a culture of innovation.

For more information from AIAS on how to develop and evolve a studio culture policy, visit their page, Toward an Evolution of Studio Culture.