the impact of social interaction and communications on innovation in the architectural design studio社会互动的影响和通讯的创新建筑设计工作室.pdf
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Buildings 2012, 2, 203-217; doi:10.3390/buildings2030203
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The Impact of Social Interaction and Communications on
Innovation in the Architectural Design Studio
Bhzad Sidawi
University of Dammam, College of Architecture and Planning, 31451 Dammam, P.O. Box 2397,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; E-Mail: Bsidawi@.sa; Tel.: +966-3-8577000; Fax: +966-3-8578739
Received: 22 April 2012; in revised form: 7 June 2012 / Accepted: 26 June 2012 /
Published: 5 July 2012
Abstract: Design is a social phenomenon and researchers suggest that social interaction,
negotiations and communication between designers are essential to initiate creativity.
Within the design studio environment, a number of factors affect the healthy social
interaction and design negotiations, such as the teaching style of tutors and the culture that
governs a design studio’s environment. This may in turn affect the utilization of the
outcome of negotiations in the design project. Design studio students from the third to fifth
years at the College of Architecture, University of Dammam (UD), the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia (KSA), were surveyed to find out how far the design studio’s culture and
communication would impact the production of innovative design projects. The results
show that frequent communication and the establishment’s shared grounds are essential to
develop knowledge and
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