Open Knowledge Community for Building Technology. An Approach on Continuum Design-Construction Teaching Methodology

Dimitris Psychogyios, Athina Stavridou

Abstract: This announcement is an approach on continuum design-construction methodology. It presents the first results of pilot educational model for the teaching of building technology courses, as applied in the course Building Materials Building 1 & 2 in the department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. It is the first phase of the development of an Open knowledge community for building technology (OKCBT). An OKCBT has double substance, on one hand there are the various sites-nodes where production of knowledge occurs, and on the other there is digital network connecting these. More specifically, sites-nodes are the places where the lessons workshops take place, as well as the places where collectivities meet related to the production of the knowledge of Building Technology. The digital network is the pilot internet platform for interconnection of the Community. The ultimate goal of the research effort is two-fold. On one hand there is the broadening of educational tools and intelligent systems. On the other hand, there is progressive creation of an open catalogue of Building Technology which will be supplied by knowledge communities and will be capable of incorporating relative knowledge. The scope of reference extends from whole building and its construction modules to the building products and materials.

Keywords: Open Knowledge Communities, Building Technology