Khalili, H., 2023.

A Design Studio Experiment: Pedagogy, Digital Storytelling, and Atmosphere in Architectural Education

This article endeavors to present a skill-based pedagogical method that facilitates the process of architectural film/animation making, a creative practice that has already become part of the curricula of several architecture schools. Through a series of pedagogical experiments conducted in an undergraduate design studio, architecture students, together with the author, attempted to design a practical filmmaking framework that focuses on communicating architectural qualities through the moving image. In the studio, students were provided with proper analysis and design tools to inform an effective architectural filmmaking matrix. This paper discusses how this pedagogical approach affected the journey of students during the studio, and, as a result, the skills of students to effectively employ film, animation, or any kind of time-based media, such as VR, to articulate qualitative and atmospheric aspects of architectural spaces.