Yassin, Mohamed, Mansour, Yasser and El Antably, Ahmed orcid.org/0000-0002-0151-0809 (2025) The pecking order:A Bourdieusian look at authority in virtual peer crits. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. 233–256. ISSN: 1573-1804
Abstract
Cultural capital having sway in establishing authority in educational fields, including architecture, has been prevalent in scholarly work discussing the traditional studio setup. With the growing use of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) in architectural education, some studios, their occupants, and artifacts moved to the new medium. Such change places those studios in a precarious position vis-a-vis traditional architectural pedagogy, problematizing cultural capital and authority. This research examines the relationship between cultural capital and authority, focusing on MUVE-mediated studio peer crits. It adopts a quasi-experimental approach, where twenty-four participants with varying design proficiencies in diverse peer compositions completed a timed design task. The research employs linkography for analysis and Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework for interpretation. The findings suggest that MUVEs have a transformative effect on exogenous cultural capital, potentially disrupting previously established norms and hierarchies in architectural pedagogy and creating new hierarchical models, which add nuances to the existing models in the literature. A MUVE-mediated studio has the potential to present the studio as a new exploratory ground not weighed down by pre-established notions of studio culture "habitus."
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 13:30 |
Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2025 23:13 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-024-09891-9 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10798-024-09891-9 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:231868 |
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