Some of them have difficulty, sometimes, adjusting to the local concept. They have to be educated by the local architects, the ways of the government. I'm just wondering whether this globalized culture is the way to go up, or we should still carry the local culture and design buildings following the local traditions? And if we take the second route, then what kind of research do we need to better adapt?

A: We can really talk about that directly, but I think one of the things that was coming up was part of why we were saying the issues that get marked were related to culture.

In a way, you needed to have the solution related to what will have some cultural relevance or otherwise just be adopted. You could not have a technologically sound solution, but it could bring you resonance with culture, and the firm can see an adaptation. To be on the other side of that question, I think, in some ways, local culture is having a larger impact on all cultures. … How can you embrace local culture but not be so certain that that’s going to be a typical exclusion of global culture that simulates and operates best on scales that are larger?

COMMENT: On a slightly different topic, I understand the need, first, to embrace educators ... to have a better understanding, but as a practitioner, we’re asked to be teachers, but we’re hardly ever asked to be an active part of the research. I'm wondering how academia and the practice could come together around some of these critical issues that are far beyond just teaching a design studio.

COMMENT: There were 25 PhD programs 10 years ago. There are more than that now. Those are places where practitioners’ offices could go with their research questions. When you have students who are learning methodologies and who are learning to pose questions, I think that practitioners coming in with their topics are all too colloquial and are about emerging issues. So, I think that the internships have worked both ways. There have already been some precedents where the universities have actively engaged industry partnership to participate and to help the educational community understand what the topics are. At the moment, as well as in the future, this is particularly relevant to the industry so that they feel that they need research but that they can’t actually deal with it on their own. So they're partnering with education systems around the country, trying to make sure that educators understand which issues the industry hopes will be researched.

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