The Design Studio beyond Donald Schön´s Traditional Approach

Abstract

The model is based on a strong constructivist approach (even though the term was coined later), and was not systematized until Schön formulated his interpretation in the 1980s. Based on Dewey’s postulates2 on active learning, he described the design studio as an educational model for reflection in action3 in his book ‘Educating the Reflective Practitioner’, thus inserting the teachinglearning processes historically developed by architects and designers into contemporary education theories.