OASE 122-123: Ecological Pedagogies asks what architecture students should be learning in a warming world, and gathers 34 situated teaching initiatives that treat design education itself as the site of ecological experiment.
About This Book
Conventional architecture education works largely through abstraction: students develop as designers inside an imagined scenario, at a remove from the material and political conditions their work will actually meet. This double issue of OASE argues that such isolation is no longer tenable. Its guiding questions are practical ones — how do we bring reality into the school, or the school out into a rapidly changing world? — and it answers them not with manifestos but with evidence: course descriptions, reflective essays, and exemplary student projects drawn from a wide range of institutions. What emerges is a portrait of design pedagogy at a moment of transition, one in which design is redefined less by what it produces than by how it relates to its context. The compilation is offered explicitly as an invitation to dialogue rather than a settled position.
Key Features
- A double issue, edited by Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Janna Bystrykh, Jantje Engels and Sereh Mandias
- 34 situated initiatives spanning course descriptions, reflective articles and student projects
- Organised around five aspects of ecological thinking: pedagogies, subject matter, situations, processes and relationships
- Designed by Karel Martens and Aagje Martens
- Published in parallel Dutch and English text
What You'll Discover
- How schools are dismantling the abstract design scenario in favour of situated, material and site-specific teaching
- What architecture students may need to unlearn, as much as what they need to acquire
- Concrete pedagogical models that other educators can adapt, rather than general arguments about curriculum reform
- How ecological thinking reframes the relationship between a design, its context, and the institution that taught it
About the Author
OASE is an independent, peer-reviewed journal for architecture published by nai010 in Rotterdam, running since 1981 and edited by a rotating international board of architects and academics. This double issue was edited by Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Janna Bystrykh, Jantje Engels and Sereh Mandias, with design by Karel Martens and Aagje Martens.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
- Language: Dutch and English
- ISBN: 9789462089525
- Publisher: nai010 Publishers
- Publication Date: July 2026
Perfect For: Architecture educators and studio tutors, students navigating the climate crisis within their own training, and readers following the OASE series and Dutch architectural discourse.