Architecture at the Edge of Practice: A Pedagogical Approach to Social Architectural Education

This paper explores critical reflections on students’ and tutors’ experiences working in rural communities in South-East Nigeria through an action-learning (AL) approach as a part of Integrated Design Studio (IDS) model in Imo State University, Owerri-Nigeria. IDM is a form of live project model; the idea of this model is predicated on the philosophy and objective of the University’s department of architecture to produce future architects capable of understanding societal need for shelter and translating this need into climatologically appropriate environments to satisfy the social, cultural, and economic aspirations of society in the local, national, and regional context.

keywords: Pedagogy, Practice, Resilient, Social Practice, Community