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DEVELOPMENT IDEAS
- Integrate the education in technical skills like BIM mod-
elling in courses. This must be done at the right time with
relevance to the current studio work. Quick mandatory
tasks could be one solution.
- More cooperation between the technical/theoretical
subjects and the studio work.
- Smaller tasks for learning of theory and 7.5pt courses
throughout the studies.
- NTNU can help provide placements for the compulsory
internships and encourage employers to give the students
an active role in the office with varied duties and types of
work.
- Organized site visits to building sites, visits to compa-
nies.
- Sustainability should be integrated into the studio work
more often rather than only in seminars.
- Remove grades from courses.
- Forced reflection from day 1 (what does architecture
mean to you?)
- Clearer relationship between the Ark1 through Ark
6 courses and clear development for students to see.
This can be done through reflection and evaluation post
courses.
- NTNU could expand the form & colour subject to learn
about more theory about aesthetics.
- More interdisciplinary subjects/projects.
- More local fieldtrips (firms, factories and buildings).
- Travel to not only beautiful sites and good architecture,
but learn from the mistakes of other architects.
- Material library – an actual shelf with samples of differ-
ent materials that students can look at / feel.
- Workshops/courses in cooperation with other schools to
get new insights and ideas.
- Photography studio could be upgraded so students
use it more. This could include having an online booking
system.
- Allow architecture students to go to other faculty’s
lectures. Make the notifications about interesting lectures
public to let even architecture students get involved.
- Courses where the process is the focus and not only the
result.
- Involve students in political matters – both local and
global.
- The master program should be more linked to real life
projects. Here students can learn about the responsibili-
ties as architects and the consequences they may face.
- The exhibitions of the student work should be more pub-
lic so more people have the chance to see and appreciate
what the students do. An ‘end of year show’ could be an
interesting idea to showcase what the students have been
doing throughout the year and also to see the projects of
different courses. This will give students an opportunity to
see what happens in other courses and help them in their
course choices.
- Make project management and economics a compulso-
ry subject.
- Studios could be improved to provide a better working
environment for students: let students ‘decorate’ the
studios to suit their purpose.
- Thesis related to companies (support).
- More time for individual feedback during evaluations.
- Teachers and lectures with multiple backgrounds (dou-
ble degrees).
- Use more simulation tools
- Flexibility when choosing courses- according to individ-
ual lack of knowledge. Allow everyone the opportunity to
choose the courses they want/need to take.
- Opportunities to write reports together with Sintef and
ZEB.
- Courses should have a clearer structure/schedule and
show who is responsible for what part of each course if
people need to contact someone/have questions.
- All students should have a stable working environment
and a place to be at all times.
- Sustainability students would like to have a more clear
focus on design for some courses.
- Clarify the title MA and MSC, do the Sustainability stu-
dents classify as architects, if not why is there no A in the
title?
- MSC students: Possibility to take courses outside the
program.
- MSC students: Minimum requirements/skills should be
enforced in order to apply for our ‘in-courses’.