ABSTRACT
For a conference addressing itself to the subject of environmental design research, it was disappointing that both papers delivered in the field of Design Education failed to reflect the increasing awareness of both the environmental professions and education of the rapidly changing character of the built environments and the professions serving them. Architectural design and urban planning have a role to play in the world that people are approaching, but the role of the traditional view of these studies is ever-diminishing. As an analogue of the real world, environmental education must define a wider spectrum of concern, a more meaningful interface of parts, a more dynamic, more mutable view of the world. In one paper an attempt was made to set up a scientific method for predicting the performance of architectural students there, four or five years hence. This work was carried out with solid experimental techniques and over the years produced a prolific display of design from the students.
