When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, not every instructor was ready to translate their acts of teaching into virtual and digital means. There was one key decision that helped Onur Yüce Gün have a smooth remote teaching experience: preparing a front-loaded syllabus that was ready to be adjusted according to classroom dynamics.
Moving forward, agility will count more than ever, and strategies built to remain flexible that let go of the old norms and normal will have higher chances to win.
In this session, Onur will share his experience in remote teaching, explain why his front-loaded MIT class fared well. He will tell how he created an environment to enable bi-directional adaptation with his students, and what making their agency and fluency top priorities taught him.
Onur Yüce Gün
Onur Yüce Gün is a seasoned computational designer and instructor whose expertise helped him bring non-standard designs in extreme scales, from skyscrapers to minuscule 3D printed lattices, into life.
Onur instituted the Computational Geometry Group at Kohn Pedersen Fox New York (KPF) in 2006. His computational architecture work got published in Elements of Parametric Design. In 2009, he developed the curriculum and directed İstanbul Bilgi University’s undergraduate program in architecture. He taught at MIT, RISD and Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile, and acted as a mentor at numerous schools and workshops around the globe. Trained as an architect, Onur holds a Ph.D. and a Masters in Design and Computation, both earned at MIT. He is currently the Creative Manager of Computational Design at New Balance. Where he develops computational design workflows and futuristic concepts with a specific concentration on DfAM (design for additive manufacturing).