The Studio Culture Summit - School of Architecture + Design

Provocative PerspectivesThe strongest conviction thatemerged from the Summit wasa universal endorsement of thedesign studio as a model for experience-basedlearning and skilldevelopment. The problems arenot inherently built into the studiomodel but are part of an insularlegacy culture that is changing andneeds to change more.The four provocateurs werebrilliant. Each brought insight,wisdom and hope. Together, theywove a compelling story of how wegot here, what isn’t working, whydesign studios are so powerfuland what we are called upon todo going forward.Thomas FisherProfessor and DeanCollege of Architecture & Landscape ArchitectureUniversity of Minnesota“Why We AreWhere We Are”“There is nothing like focusingon the larger problems of theworld to put our problems inperspective, and I suspect thatonce we truly engage with theworld, many of the silly or selfdestructivetraditions of studiolife–the all-nighters, the obsessionwith grades, the ridiculouscompetition to see who can bethe most original–would disappearor seem irrelevant in lightof these larger purposes.”12