Service-learning for a more than human paradigm shift in architecture schools

Abstract

In the context of crisis and globalization, the Bologna Plan has generated a university model whose training is oriented almost exclusively towards access to the labour market. Consequently, the subordination to certain subjects leaves out emerging issues that have no place in the curricula and only appear in educational innovation projects and service-learning projects that favour a relationship between academia and reality. This article presents the experience of Service-Learning carried out in an experimental workshop at the School of Architecture that addressed the need to introduce the consideration of non-human groups in urban processes. By analysing the experience through a systematic qualitative record and a theoretical review, the results can be positively assessed, detecting in the students a growing interest in promoting a commitment to the more-than-human from a situated approach.