This book presents outcomes of the SUrF project. Instead of proposing universal solutions or totalising visions of the future of design pedagogy, SUrF has focused on developing a flexible and open toolkit of approaches in the form of design briefs, adaptable across academic, civic, and professional contexts. Working between the small scale and the systemic, the project developed, tested, and shared a series of pedagogical tools to help foster the conditions needed to achieve reforms and meaningful changes necessary to align design with some of the demands and challenges of the twenty-first century. In the book, we present five outcomes, comprising work from teams from five European institutions: ENS Paris-Saclay/ENSCI les Ateliers, Paris; ELISAVA, Barcelona; Arts Academy, University of Split; Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft; and The Estonian Association of Architects, Tallinn. The perspectives presented emerge from specific European institutional and cultural contexts and offer partial, situated contributions to ongoing, plural conversations shaping design pedagogy.
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