PLACE MAKING OR PLACE TAKING IN THE CONTEXT OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EDUCATION

By succumbing to the propaganda that design is about creating the 'new', we escape from reflecting on the moment of discovery in a living ecosystem. Reflective practice allows us to understand the continuity of development and provides an opportunity to engage speculative users in the acceptance of a symbiotically designed space, as opposed to revolutionary acts of uncritical design. The combination of theory and practice on the basis of projects carried out in the first years of study leads to Poiesis, as well as a sense of responsibility for lost natural capital, progressive gentrification or the disappearance of local activity.