Teaching acoustics at architect students using digital tools

Abstract

At the School of Architecture, Lund University Sweden, courses are taught in different ways. A large part of the education during year one and two is held as "studios", doing creative (individual) project work. Usually acoustics courses rather correspond to the traditional engineering education style, using lectures, exercises, small project works and final written examination. The problem is that many students don't know how to use the gathered information in their creative works. The aim of the study covered by this paper was to improve upon the existing teaching/learning of the fundamental acoustics principles scheme by introducing new methodologies. In order to achieve our goal, we gave the students two different assignments: In the first assignment, the students had to produce short educational movies to explain and teach acoustics principles to their peers. In the second assignment, they should implement the new knowledge gathered in the first assignment into their individual creative projects