I have not been posting for awhile. I was very busy last week and I had to work during the weekend. Managed to catch Mior singing during Archi Night though. Met our former students, Mastura, Shima, Syakir and Syihan, to name some, and Dhirma is now in the 4th year.
It was a long introduction session on Monday at 3 pm, with Mastura and Aniza, giving our input. I noticed that the students were concern with the "product" rather than the "process". Mentioned that to Saari just now.
Also mentioned about the Testimony of Competence and design as the core skills. Well, Malaysian architectural educationists had been harping on that since I was a student back then in UTM in the 80s. It is nothing new. But the world is evolving and many educationists world wide would rather debate on it, insisting that we should always evolve to look beyond the expected. That architectural education should not get too fixated with design as being the core skills. It is not easy to do that in the Malaysian context. If you are interested;
Here's the opinion of a professor from Edinburgh.
Well, I am more interested in the students focusing on the process rather than the product. Sure, the product is important, but I do not think that we should neglect the process. There seems to be a fixation of the product, as I am hearing "sound-bites" from the students and lecturers around me on how important the final product is. I mean, that goes without saying. I am worried about the content and the learning.
It's not easy to listen to every single word all 47 students presenting in a day. It is scientifically proven that we could only concentrate up to 20 minutes and then our minds are somewhere else. It is not easy to get excited at the same rate throughout the day. But we have to keep on assessing the process. How much time are we, the educationists want to listen during the process. Our reaction and instinctual input during the process does more to the learning than the assessment at the end of the project.
It's a cyclical form of inductive learning. It is not linear and nor is it a one way street of hearing soundbites and repeating soundbites. You cannot be a robot and survive. Unless you were made by humans. And so the story goes.
Process is more important than product.
Concept is a concretised idea.
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miss naziaty, i m also very worry about how the crit session flow is going to be around 47 students.
It is a huge class, u also mention that soemone concentration will only last 20 minits, how each lecturer focus on 12 students?
Will the crit fair for all the students? or only those taking the earlier crit will benefit more? Will somone being left out when lecturers not coming? IT is a scary issue when think of it.
Hi. Sorry for the late reply but I really have to say this.
Don't worry about other people's game, only your game, which is your work and programme (the one that you worked out for yourself) and try to score as much as you can. It is like football. If I am Liverpool FC, I should not worry about Chelsea FC. I have to know what it takes to succeed. That is the most important.
The referees (your lecturer) MUST RECOGNISE your quality and what you do. If you are doing some 'A' work, the lecturers must give an 'A'. It is that disciplined thinking and controlling of your mind that you must strive for. CONCENTRATE!
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