Architecture Live Projects: Situated Learning Agility

This practice-based research is about architecture Live Projects. Through an architecture Live Project programme managed by Project Office, Live Project pedagogy, unique to Leeds Beckett University has been established. The invention of the ‘school-based practice’ Project Office acts as a bridging entity, prototyping a new mechanism for facilitating the process and production of Live Projects, one which intersects architects/lecturers, students/agents and clients/public. Using 23 case studies, this PhD demonstrates that Project Office is indispensable as a means of enabling and enriching the architecture Live Project programme and student experience. The research also focusses on myself as a Live Project educator, by introducing the term situated learning agility to theorise and reflect upon this key role.