A Virtual Hybridity: A new place to design?

This paper documents an investigative action-research project which explores a new virtual hybridity for design studio activity. This work specifically challenges how creative teaching and learning are facilitated in a traditional design school studio environment and adapts to embrace a new virtual studio paradigm which parallels and supports an interactive corporeal studio setting unbound by the confines of location. The research explores a new methodology for creative educational practice introducing a hybrid environment where participants simultaneously practice, interact and communicate design through virtual, digital and physical locations. The paper details the investigation and forms analysis and commentary of a new expressive pedagogical form.