Overview

Design education occupies a unique place in the realm of professional education in a university. Located at the intersection of and traversing across different fields and disciplines, it has a long, illustrious and at times difficult history over the years. Questions and debates have erupted over purpose and pedagogy. Positions were staked, experimental pedagogies introduced, and new paradigms emerged that left important marks in the evolution of design education over the years.

The research cluster provides faculty from architecture, landscape architecture and architectural conservation with a platform and a forum to advance discourse, research, scholarship, and best practices on design education. It is an invitation to collaborate, share, nurture and build a community of design educators through lectures, workshops, seminars, conferences, publications, and exhibitions.