ABSTRACT

This chapter demonstrates that a compromise between skills teaching and the learning of artistic creativity is indeed possible. Landscape design studios aim to foster creativity and to help students to generate original design solutions. According to the underlying philosophy: it is unlikely that the design product will be able to be used again in another context, but the process–in some form at least–should be able to be adapted to new situations that will be encountered in the future. All case studies build in some way on the aim of confronting students with the new and unfamiliar within the context of the studio process as a key to opening up creativity in order to come up with novel and unexpected design solutions. The chapter explores the educational potentials which parametric design offers with regard to the interactivity of the design process and the challenges it presents to traditional design thinking.