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Writing Over a Marked Canvas: Pedagogies for Urban Reuse

par Couchez, Elke ;Mobile, Maria Luna
Référence Future anterior, 21, 1-2, page (80-101)
Publication Publié, s.d.

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Despite the urgency to integrate reuse approaches in the architecture design curriculum, specific design pedagogies are often overlooked in academic discourse. This article questions how pedagogical approaches can inform the integration of reuse practices in architecture design education, particularly in connecting reuse to user needs and contextual specificities. The article analyses how a historical and a contemporary design studio turn to the existing by cultivating the attitude of "re-reading." The first section explores the development of reading as a social design tool at the International Laboratory of Architecture & Urban Design (ILAUD, 1976–2015). ILAUD's central tenet was that the historic city's future laid not merely in protecting its monuments but needed to be addressed by looking at the urban fabric and its historical, topographical, social, and economic conditions. The best way to reanimate was to RE-read the city. The second section unravels the pedagogical approach of Studio 3: Unlayering Umeå, Atlas of Future Explorations, and Futurescapes, a three-year cycle of studios organized at Umeå School of Architecture in Sweden. These research-based studios are inspired by ILAUD and by deconstructivist theories introduced by Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi at the IAUS in New York. In Studio 3, the act of "reading" induces students to define a method for relating the specificity of the context to morphological, topographical, political, and social aspects. By linking historical to contemporary pedagogical approaches and tracing the theoretical foundations and influences of reuse attitudes, this article advocates for rereading as a social and pedagogical practice. It emphasizes the importance of studying studio teaching within academia as a nexus of experimentation, theory, and professional practice, able to address the challenges of our times.