Agents of Change Project

To better prepare students as future teachers, architects, and stewards of the built environment, this project brought together more than 170 faculty and teaching assistants from 50+ architecture programs to train on how to investigate actual buildings, conduct post-occupancy surveys, and develop exercises to implement at their home institutions. Agents of Change has generated an ever-increasing library of case studies published on the Web; 30 case studies have been generated from the workshops alone. The project also surveyed over 1000 architecture students to ascertain changes in their attitudes, perceptions, and learning from the AoC curricular infusion. Agents of Change has increased the pool of qualified architectural technology and motivated graduate students to enter the teaching ranks; helping further the goal to ultimately train future generations of designers to create buildings that provide for human health and well-being while using energy responsibly.