Nomadic Pedagogies: Architecture as a Lived Experience in Travel and Interdisciplinary Workshops

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2025.13620

Keywords:

urban laboratories, interdisciplinary dialogues, nomadic pedagogies, globalization, academic trip

Abstract

Architectural education faces the challenge of connecting theoretical knowledge with the reality of the built environment. This research proposes "Nomadic Pedagogies" as an innovative strategy for curricular integration and cooperative and interdisciplinary learning. The study examines an immersive educational model that articulates academic trips to distinctive urban and cultural contexts, such as Chicago-New York, Venice, Granada, and Berlin, with workshops that transcend disciplinary boundaries, creating veritable in-situ Urban Laboratories. The central proposition is that a deep understanding of architecture is facilitated through direct, experiential experience of space and dialogue with other forms of knowledge. Through a multiple-case study, travel logs, project portfolios, and student discourse are analyzed.

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Author Biographies

Valentina Galleguillos Negroni, Universidad del Desarrollo

Architect of Universidad del Desarrollo Chile (2007) with a Master's degree in Sustainable Design and Construction (2010) and a Master's degree in Sustainable Design and Innovation from the Faculty of Design of UDD (2023). Diploma in Universal Accessibility Techniques at UDD (2016).

In 2009, she joined the Architecture team at the UDD (Concepción) campus, serving in various roles within the program, including as Admissions, Outreach, Alumni Network, and Master's Coordinator until 2012, where she assumed academic coordination with responsibility for Academic Management. She also joined the UDD as a spokesperson, publishing opinion columns in national digital media. She has also contributed to indexed research articles, such as the proceedings of the JIDA España (Teaching Innovation Conference) with papers on the subject of physical and digital content.

She has participated in various research funds as a co-researcher and is currently developing a PADT for iCono UDD 360° Heritage Visualization with an interdisciplinary team. She has also been awarded UDD Teaching Innovation Funds, incorporating digital media and digital transformation into the classroom. In 2024, she was recognized with the Global Spirit award from the Globalization Department for her contribution to the International Interdisciplinary Workshop program "Granada - The Scales of Water."

She currently serves as Coordinator of Globalization, Graduation Mentions, and New Technologies at both locations of the UDD School of Architecture and as a lecturer in Workshop I (2022). She is also Project Director at Lovewall Papeles Murales. She has a distinguished career spanning 16 years of teaching in architecture and is a member of the academic core.

Piero Mazzarini Watts, Universidad del Desarrollo

Architect from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (1992); PhD in Architecture: Lighting and Environment, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain (2023). Thesis graded "Cum Laude," Interdisciplinary Tutor Training Plan Course (2019), Diploma in University Teaching at the University of Catalonia (UDD) (2017), and Diploma in Advanced Studies in Architectural Construction at the University of Catalonia (UPC) (2003).

With experience in interior design and artificial lighting, he joined the UDD Santiago campus in 1999, serving as one of the founding professors of the Architecture program. A researcher at the Faculty, he is recognized for his outstanding 25-year academic career, receiving awards such as Best Professor of the Academic Year in the undergraduate program in 2010, 2015, and 2019. He has dedicated himself to applied research in the UDD FIGITAL Analog-Digital Line. During the years 2017 to 2019 he was part of the DLAB UDD Tutors.

Currently, along with an interdisciplinary team, he is developing a PADT for iCono UDD, 360° Heritage Visualization. In addition to being awarded various Teaching Innovation grants, incorporating analog and digital technologies into the classroom, he is also actively participating in indexed applied research articles at JIDA Teaching Innovation Conferences, with papers on analog-digital topics.

He serves as the coordinator of Architectural Design and Innovation and as a lecturer at Taller III. He is a member of the Architecture Program Council. He is a project manager at Lovewall Papeles Murales. He is an international peer evaluator of accreditation processes for architecture doctoral programs at foreign universities. He has participated in various international workshops such as San Francisco, Havana, RCR Arquitectos/Fotografía España Arquitectes, Venice: Torres y Alfiles, and Granada, Spain: Escalas del Agua.

Oscar Mackenney Poblete, Vice Dean of Architecture, Universidad del Desarrollo

Architect from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Master's in Humanities and Scientific Thought, with a focus on the Contemporary World, from the Universidad del Desarrollo Chile

Karen Ulriksen Ojeda, Directora Arquitectura UDD

She holds an Architect degree from the University of Chile (1999) and a Master in Business Administration/MBA from the Universidad del Desarrollo (2014).

In 2000, she taught Architecture at the University of Chile and the Universidad del Desarrollo, continuing her career there alongside undergraduate academic management, leading curricular changes, accreditation processes, methodological innovation processes, among others. In 2011, she was appointed "Regular Professor" under the rank of "Assistant Professor" and later appointed "Associate Professor" at the Universidad del Desarrollo.

She is co-author of the publication "The Island Hills in the Collective Memory of Santiago" in the journal ARQ No. 71 Los Andes (2009) ISI – Scielo - doi: 10.4067/S0717-69962009000100017, of the article "Triggering Experiences" in the book From the South: Global Perspectives on Landscape and Territory (2018), and author of article 05 "Chapter ED I" in the publication Libro de Obra: Experiencias Detonantes Arquitectura (2021), among others.

She has extensive experience in the practice of architecture, having participated as a collaborating architect and later as a partner architect at Ergohome LTDA, in charge of residential design, with more than 40 completed projects.

She is currently the Director of the Architecture Program at the Universidad del Desarrollo (2020), Santiago campus, and a lecturer in Taller II

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Published

2025-10-28

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JIDA'25

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