Protagonists in learning: storytelling practices in an architecture school
- Vol.88(3), Mar
- Mumbai Indian Institute of Architects 2023
- 70-71p.
The story form is a cultural universal; everyone everywhere enjoys stories. The story is not just casual entertainment; it reflects a basic and powerful form in which we make sense of the world and experience (Egan, 1988, p. 21). The bachelor of architecture curriculum in India subscribes to a fairly non- hierarchical system and proposes a non-prescriptive studio format, allowing for peer and self-reflective learning. While the Architectural Design Studio lies at the core of the B. Arch. program, attempts have been made to decentralise the prescribed curriculum by transplanting teaching methods from one discursive context to another. Design projects undertaken within the architecture course are concieved and structured as stories, further rooting the practice of storytelling within design education.