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Please read a message from Ashraf Salama, Head of our World Architecture for Equal Dignity Project:

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Rethinking Design Studio Teaching Practices
Between traditional, revolutionary, and virtual models
Call for Contributions - Open House International

Guest Editor: Dr. Ashraf Salama

The issue of Open House International (March 2006) explores studio teaching practices by investigating pedagogical aspects that associate different studio teaching models; traditional, revolutionary, and virtual. Research papers in this issue will introduce cases that shed light on paradigmatic shifts in studio teaching practices in the developed and the developing worlds. Papers may reflect on a wide spectrum of studio types including architectural, interior, landscape, urban, and community design studios. While some papers will place emphasis on creativity and social responsibility as integral components in studio teaching, others will explore dialectic relationships between contents, methods, teaching/learning styles; process-product mechanisms; problem representations vs. exploring solutions; competition vs. collaboration; and the tools utilized by studio educators to achieve their studio teaching objectives. Contact Dr. Ashraf Salama, Guest Editor at asalama@kfupm.edu.sa for further information on submission dates and guidelines.
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Ashraf Salama, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture
College of Environmental Design
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Dharhan, Saudi Arabia
Phone 966 3 860 2325
URL: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/ARCH/asalama/
E-Biography: http://archnet.org/shared/biography-one.tcl?user_id=941&public_p=0