Rethinking the Crit

<p>Assessment in architecture and creative arts schools has traditionally adopted a ‘one size fits all’ approach by using the ‘crit’, where students pin up their work, make a presentation and receive verbal feedback in front of peers and academic staff. In addition to increasing stress and inhibiting learning, which may impact more depending on gender and ethnicity, the adversarial structure of the ‘crit’ reinforces power imbalances and thereby ultimately contributes to the reproduction of dominant cultural paradigms. </p><p>This book critically examines the pedagogical theory underlying this approach, discusses recent critiques of this approach and the reality of the ‘crit’ is examined through analysis of practice. The book explores the challenges for education and describes how changes to feedback in education can shape the future of architecture and the creative arts.</p> <p>Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Rethinking The Crit <i>Patrick Flynn </i>2. My Teaching Journey<i> John Barton </i>3. Art School – A Beautiful Uncertainty <i>Fergus Feehily </i>4. What are Crits For? <i>Mark Price and Anne Mahon </i>5.<em> </em>Viva Co-Disegno (Living Co-Design): Exploring Round-Table Reviews as a Process of Co-Creating Collaborative Designerly Knowledge <i>Rachel Sara </i>6. Not Knowing <i>Maureen O Connor </i>7. Recalibrating the Design Jury<i> Johan De Walsche </i>8. Design Jam: Expanding Thinking through Improvisation <i>Rosie Parnell </i>9. Collaboration and Community: Critique as a Technique for Students and Teachers in Art College<em> Collette Nolan and Bill O'Flynn</em> 10. Ecology of the Crit <em>Mia </em><i>Roth-Čerina </i>11. Transformative Design Teaching: Challenging the Didactic Assumptions of Polytechnic Schools through the Lens of the Professional Role of Architects <em>Caterina Barioglio, Daniele Campobenedetto, and Caterina Quaglio </em>12. Time for a Reset: Critique as a Technique for Students and Teachers in Art College<em> </em><i> Kathryn H. Anthony </i>13. Yes, No, and Perhaps: An Inclusive Model of the Crit <i>Donal Moloney </i>14. Changing Tradition in Assessment and Feedback <i>Carmen Tomas </i>15. A Certain Uncertainty: Letter to a Young Architect <i>Martin Gledhill </i>16. Authorship, Representation, and Judgement in the Making of the Architect <i>Sevgi Türkkan </i>17. Breaking The Chains: Beyond the Beaux-Arts Tradition of Architectural Education in the United States <i>Rashida Ng </i>18. Umpiring from a Distance: Towards Inclusive Architectural Design Studio Crits <i>Lindy Osborne Burton, Hermie Delport, Jolanda Morkel, and Michele Gorman </i>19. Notes from the Online World <i>Alice Clancy </i>20. In Conversation With <i>Miriam Dunn and</i> <i>Patrick Flynn </i>Conclusion Index</p>