This question comes from a totally misguided frame of mind. On more than one occasion, I have seen classmates have bad reviews and then complain to people later saying, “If the project was so bad, then why didn’t he tell me what to do?” Your design teacher may have thoughts or recommendations about how to proceed with your project, but they don’t know the finished product any more that you do. The other thing is that its tempting to think that, like high school, the teacher knows what you are supposed to do and has a certain amount of responsibility to get you there. Which is great if you are going to be an analyst or an assembly line worker or an accountant, but not if you are going to design the built environment.

We are trained for years to find the answer someone else already knows. There are multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, free response questions, even formulaic three point essays that all have predetermined answers. We, as students, are graded on our ability to come up with the right answer. Every class, every test, every assignment is given with a right answer in mind. This problem starts with the way we are taught and tested all throughout grade school. This mindset is actually very dangerous and unproductive in design studio even though, as a member of society, you have probably been trained to think like that.Ĭheck out this video real quick where I explain how you can improve your design abilities by embracing this one simple attitude: In my first few years of studio I was always wondering what I was “supposed” to do on assignments.

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