Transformachines: Transforming City Data to Architectural Design Strategies

Abstract

An innovative version of the New Fields of Design and Construction (NFDC) design methodology course was set in motion at the Postgraduate Program of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) last spring. The intention was to experiment with the existing design education framework of learning by doing in an extended learning environment of multiple mediums organized as a representation of the multiplicity of the design praxis. It also aimed at raising student engagement and making students complicit to the formation of the course content.