The design portfolio is essential to architectural education, as well as other artistic disciplines. The move to remote education as a result of the coronavirus pandemic has allowed us to rethink education across the board, specifically how the design portfolios are submitted and assessed. Adapting to remote educationĭesign portfolios have been historically submitted in hard-copy format so that students have a hard copy to show employers, and so that staff and external examiners are able to intimately negotiate the physicality of the work. Students spend a great deal of time on the curation of the presentation, and naturally, this can get quite large (both physically and digitally). The portfolio is the summation of their work, drawing together multiple projects, and even making a connection to learning in other modules and extracurricular work. Responding to briefs, students work through multiple iterations of their work with support from staff and their peers. Co-Programme Director for MLA/MA Landscape Architecture, Laura Allen.Co-Programme Director for MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2), Patrick Weber.The group was made up of a small team consisting of: The featured image showcases an example of work created by one of our students, S onia Margdziarz, MA Architecture. With the switch to remote teaching and assessment, and a cap on the size of files that can be uploaded to Moodle, a group of teaching staff set out to find a protocol that would allow for the submission and assessment of large portfolios. Design studio - where students produce a portfolio of their project work - is a core part of architectural education, central to nearly all of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
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