Facilitating and measuring team reflection and learning in architectural design teams

This research examines how a design-based workshop can promote team reflection to enhance their team performance. The workshop uses Design Thinking to structure the activities and leverages reflective practice inherent in design processes to engage participants in reflecting on their team processes. We tested the workshop with an architecture firm in Australia. Our findings indicate that the activities engaged participants to reflect independently on their own experience and collectively as a team. While findings showed mixed results regarding changes in their team learning behavior over the twelve-week study, there was a positive improvement on what team process the participants focused to reflect on during the workshop, and the actual team process across all three teams.

keywords: team reflection; reflection; reflexivity; design team

• with: Eva Kind, Anita Kocsis, Jane Burry
• year: July 2024 – ongoing