Assessment in architecture and creative arts schools has traditionally adopted a 'one size fits all' approach by using the 'crit', where students pin up their work, make a presentation and receive verbal feedback in front of peers and academic staff. In addition to increasing stress and inhibiting learning, which may impact more depending on gender and ethnicity, the adversarial structure of the 'crit' reinforces power imbalances and thereby ultimately contributes to the reproduction of dominant cultural paradigms.

This book critically examines the pedagogical theory underlying this approach, discusses recent critiques of this approach and the reality of the 'crit' is examined through analysis of practice. The book explores the challenges for education and describes how changes to feedback in education can shape the future of architecture and the creative arts.

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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Rethinking the Crit
2 My Teaching Journey
3 Art School: A Beautiful Uncertainty
4 What are Crits For?
5 Viva Co-Disegno (Living Co-Design): Exploring Round-Table Reviews as a Process of Co-Creating Collaborative Designerly Knowledge
6 Not Knowing
7 Recalibrating the Design Jury
8 Design Jam: Expanding Thinking through Improvisation
9 Collaboration and Community: Critique as a Technique for Students and Teachers in Art College
10 Ecology of the Crit
11 Transformative Design Teaching: Challenging the Didactic Assumptions of Polytechnic Schools through the Lens of the Professional Role of Architects
12 Time for a Reset: Critique as a Technique for Students and Teachers in Art College
13 Yes, No, and Perhaps: An Inclusive Model of the Crit
14 Changing Tradition in Assessment and Feedback
15 A Certain Uncertainty: Letter to a Young Architect
16 Authorship, Representation, and Judgement in the Making of the Architect
17 Breaking the Chains: Beyond the Beaux-Arts Tradition of Architectural Education in the United States
18 Umpiring from a Distance: Towards Inclusive Architectural Design Studio Crits
19 Notes from the Online World
20 In Conversation With
Conclusion
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