Architectural Design of a Nature-Connected Building: an Innovative Teaching and Learning Project.

Innovative teaching and learning methodologies challenge conventional architectural design education for improved students´ creativity, knowledge, skills and competences. These new strategies can improve students´ engagement, motivation and attainment, but they also demand a great effort of the teaching team and are linked to a set of difficulties. This article analyses and unfolds the keys of an innovative teaching project proposal, devised and planned by me to be developed, as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (KADK) School of Architecture (the top university in the field of architectural design in Denmark), the Institute of Architecture and Design (IAD). The document offers resources for innovative teaching good practice and implementation, and therefore to facilitate innovation at the classroom level. It gives tools to overcome the challenges facing innovative learning models in architecture education. Above all, it aims to foster innovation in architectural design education by empowering and inspiring teachers and other education staff to use innovative teaching methods while sharing best practices and experiences with their colleges