Chinese Cities as Pedagogy

The book introduces innovative teaching practices and methods with a critical focus on understanding and interpreting Chinese cities as a rich context. It highlights the advantages of interdisciplinary teaching in creating new learning experiences for students. Additionally, the book provides thorough mapping of the applied methods across disciplines and offers deeper reflections on the emerging pedagogy.

The first book about teaching students to study the Chinese cities as they are among the most dynamic research objects This book aims to document the benefits, challenges and best practices of interdisciplinary teaching This book includes rich text combined with visual materials and pedagogical maps woven together

Autorentext

Jiawen Han, PhD & Associate Professor in Architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Xianwen Kuang, PhD & Associate Professor in Journalism, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

Guanghui Ding, PhD in Architecture, Independent Researcher.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Documenting Chinese Cities.- 2. Re-embodying People and Society in City-Based Teaching.- 3. Architecture as Media and Cities Represented in Media: Synthesizing Disciplines in Research-Led Teaching Projects.- 4. Integrating Concept with Interpretation: A Place-Based Thematic Instruction on Architecture Criticism.- 5. Chinese Cities and Interdisciplinary Teaching.