Design computing education: Developing a post-grad CAAD curriculum based on specific desing project

The idea of teaching design computing through design-based approaches has been increasingly adopted over the past 15 years. However, most of the resulting experiments have been limited to specific courses within larger programmes. This approach has rarely affected CAAD curriculum. A glance at the syllabus of some CAAD programmes may reveal their non design-based nature. We describe here a post-graduate programme that has been structured around a specific design project through a set of courses in which the emphasis falls on the needs of the design process rather than on software categories