Change Order 2

The Boston Architectural College is pleased to announce Change Order 2, a collaborative discussion of assessing learning alongside curricular changes in design education.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21
2:00 - 5:15 PM
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center
900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115

6:00 PM Dinner
Brasserie JO
120 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center
900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115

3:30 PM Reception
McCormick Gallery, The Boston Architectural College
320 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02115

About Change Order 2
The Boston Architectural College presented Change Order, a national, day-long seminar in the winter of 2010, to address questions of how design education could become more multi-disciplinary, client-sensitive, and globally-oriented. 150 diverse educators, practitioners, students, technologists, design futurists, and community persons, attended and discussed emerging trends and innovations in professional design education. Recommendations from that conference are now being implemented by schools, and considered by accreditors.

Change Order 2 will discuss how learning outcomes from these changes can best be evaluated. We will transcend traditional generalized conference recommendations to begin to determine whether the collaborative, client-oriented learning proposals emerging can actually make a difference in professional school curricula and in the learning outcomes demonstrated by students.

Persons with extensive experience in design program evaluation are being invited to participate, and national publications will document the conference and to share findings on how design and design education can better serve society. Change Order 2 will engage up to 200 participants to further re-think how designers can best address human needs and assess the effectiveness of design innovations in rapidly changing environmental circumstances.

A special block of rooms has been reserved at the Colonnade Hotel; please reference the Boston Architectural College to obtain the Conference rate.

Registration is by invitation only.