Author(s)

Moon-Lin Jau¹, Naai-Jung Shih²

¹Department of Interior Design, Hwa Hsia University of Technology, New Taipei City.
²Department of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City.

Taiwan has become a renowned Chinese cultural showcase in recent years. For architectural instructors, bringing student class efforts to the public has become a part of pedagogical events and the purpose of this study. Instructors who are also designers have established a pattern of collaborating with local small galleries for organizing design exhibitions. The result is a new collaborate pedagogical pattern which enables design students to reach out to society and, in the meantime, open up a window of diversity for the galleries as test workshops for design practice. This pattern has been carried out for three years. The results not only encourage students, but also motivate them with an open-mind learning attitude in a real social space.

Pedagogy, Cultural and Creative Space, Design Studio

Jau, M. and Shih, N. (2017) The New Role of Instructors and Curators for the First-Year Architectural Design Students in Taiwan. Art and Design Review, 5, 44-51. doi: 10.4236/adr.2017.51004.