Design Education: Still Adjusting to the New (Zoom) Normal

It’s been a solid six months of zooming into design studios for students of architecture, urban design and planning at Harvard’s GSD and elsewhere, and I’m amazed by the agility, progress and productivity these students have managed in such unsettling times, under such sudden and unexpected working and learning conditions. Design education has, until recently, always centered on the collective experience of working in the studio alongside critics and amongst peers who can offer real time feedback and critique. So these past months have been uncharted waters for design students and critics alike. Kudos to these students for rising to the (hopefully temporary) challenges of Studio in the time of COVID, and thanks to my fellow reviewers (all blurred out here for privacy) for an engaging and affirmative discussion. AS always, thanks for the invitation, David!