Dear all,

You can find the syllabus of the course below. Attendance to the course is mandatory. The course focuses on in-class activities, therefore it is important for you to be present in the class.

We will be using this page for the first and a half week since moodle system is not working for some reason. You can send an e-mail to open and distance learning department if you want to know why this happens. Here is their mail address: [email protected]. If they say they are not in charge of the system, you can always send the same mail to IT department and the mail address is: [email protected]. Have fun.

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Arch4151 – Virtual Environments in Architecture

This course aims to teach students virtual environments in relation with the architectural design. Throughout the semester students will be introduced virtual environments and will have the chance to experience virtual environments for different purposes. During the course, students will be expected to grasp the basic concepts of creativity, decision making, design cognition, create architectural solutions to introduced problems within games, and work with their classmates to develop design methodologies within design processes in virtual environments. This process will be conducted within different cognitive applications, research design setups, and gamification implementations with different roles. The course environment depends highly on group explorations rather than lectures. This exploration includes students’ self-developments towards understanding design cognition.

Course Content: Virtual Environments, Design Cognition, Serious Gaming, Decision Making, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality