A presentation for Perspective 5: How has COVID-19 impacted how we teach and learn architecture, in the series Conversations on post-COVID-19 Perspectives for Architecture in South Africa. In this presentation Jolanda Morkel reflects on her experiences in learning, teaching, research, studio facilitation, and learning design, to share her recent observations, discoveries, and some lingering questions. She relates the post-COVID-19 conditions in South Africa to global and pre-pandemic realities to put it in perspective. Jolanda draws on the work of Professors Achille Mbembe, Ashraf Salama and Lesley Lokko to prompt reflection on society and the role of the University, the implications of emergency remote learning and teaching, in relation to the legacy model and its deficiencies, that were amplified by the Pandemic. She advocates for purposeful and student-centred learning design that will move beyond the binary, to consider the range of learning settings and experiences between the online and the onground, the synchronous and the asynchronous, and the formal and informal learning settings and dimensions. Such an approach will not be fixated on the tools, but consider the pedagogy. It will consider the content, methodologies, role models and languages that students can relate to. Jolanda cautions against the practical and ethical complexities associated with the use of technology for learning and teaching, including data analytics, surveillance, staff workloads, university infrastructure and support, digital literacies of staff and students, suggesting that these should consciously be addressed through learning experience design. The presentation concludes with the challenge to be open enough to recognise the opportunities that the pandemic revealed and to be brave enough to take these on.

1. beyond emergency remote learning & teaching
HOW HAS COVID-19 IMPACTED HOW WE TEACH & LEARN ARCHITECTURE?
04 NOV – Perspective 5
Jolanda Morkel Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Morkelj@cput.ac.za

2. #inthistogether

3. society
& the role of the university

4. emergency remote
teaching &
learning

5. the legacy model

6. student-centred learning design

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8. #inthistogether

10. REFERENCES
Mbembe A. Keynote: International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) and
HELTASA joint Conference 22 – 25 November 2016 Cape Town, South Africa.
https://youtu.be/qLEEEyn4Hi0
Morkel, J. 2017. An exploration of Socratic learning in a webinar setting. Architecture
Connects aae Conference Proceedings, 6 – 9 September 2017, pp 336-344, Oxford, England.
https://aaeconference2017.wordpress.com/about-2/
Poulsen, L., Morkel, J. 2016. Open architecture: a blended learning model for architectural
education, Architecture South Africa, Journal of the South African Institute of Architects, 78:28
- 30, Mar/Apr 2016 Architecture South Africa: Journal of the South African Institute of
Architects, 78:28-33, Mar/Apr 2016.
Salama, A. M. & Crosbie. M.J. 2020. Educating architects in a post-pandemic world. In
Common Edge [online] Accessed 1 November 2020. https://commonedge.org/educating-
architects-in-a-post-pandemic-world/

11. thank you
Jolanda Morkel Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Morkelj@cput.ac.za