Diane Armpriest
Theme category(s): Case Studies
Objective,
Description, & Agenda:
This
primary objective of this workshop is to introduce ideas for the application of
the Agents of Change case study methodology to teaching a beginning course in
materials and methods of construction at the University of Idaho. The session will begin with a brief
description of the project background, and a presentation of the approach to
and applications of at least three different methods for investigating the
design and performance of particular building enclosure systems. The
participants will then be asked to use the techniques described to investigate
the enclosure system of one or more of the buildings at the workshop site and
report back to the group with their findings. In conclusion, participants will evaluate the techniques,
and will be challenged to come up with potential applications of tools and
methodologies to teaching the building construction or other technology course
work.
Special
Knowledge: Participants
should come away with an understanding of several strategies for bringing
handŐs on, AoC based, exercises to beginning students studying construction
methods and materials.
Materials
Provided: CD or
hard copies of descriptions of each protocol used during the workshop, copies
of the assignments used in my class and a copy of the power point presentation
AV Requirements: The
initial presentation will be made using power point. I will need a digital projector that is MAC-friendly,
or access to a laptop for the presentation.
Other
Requirements: We will also need to have a group meeting
space and access to several buildings (if possible buildings made using
different enclosure systems). I plan to use some of the tools included in the kit I have
on loan from Agents of Change, and may also need to borrow some additional
tools from AoC for the day of the workshop.
Submitted
by: Diane
Armpriest, Assistant Professor
Department
of Architecture
University
of Idaho
Moscow,
ID 83844-2451
208-885-7127
It is my intention to develop and present the
workshop with at least one of the graduate assistants who attended the AoC
workshop with me in Phoenix in January 2004.