Architectural Design Workshops: Computational Design for Housing
MIT students team remotely with Miyagi University in Japan for a nine day workshop that treats shape computation as a design method for small housing projects. Coursework centers on interactive design software, with students building and sharing applications with their overseas partners, posting projects to a shared internet workspace, and running design critiques over the web rather than in person. Most work happens during class sessions rather than as homework, so the materials function as a compressed studio brief: project prompts, software tools, and critique structure rather than a semester of lectures. Offered through MIT OpenCourseWare, the course includes the workshop's assignments and project documentation, useful for architecture students or instructors curious about early computational design pedagogy and cross-institution digital collaboration.