A brief CV

PhD Fernando Molina is an architect by the ETS Architecture of the University of Seville, and has a Master MPAA in Advanced Architectural Projects by the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and is a Doctor in Architecture by the University of Navarra.

Since 2010 he has combined his teaching and research work with his professional practice, specializing in ephemeral architecture.

From 2015 to 2020 he was a lecturer on the Degree in Architecture and the Degree in Design at the University of Navarra. He is currently a doctoral professor at Universidad del Atlántico Medio.

Learning by doing. Teaching and learning subjects that encourage creativity through models.

Science and profession, technique and art, reflection and action are binomials that coexist in the teaching of creativity, although they function differently. In each of these binomials, in the first term, we work separating concepts in order to be able to analyze them, classify them, etc., whereas in the second term, the concepts are almost indistinguishable due to their simultaneity, they need each other. This is why there is a risk in teaching, when creativity is treated as an empirical science, of self-absorption, since it is not taken into consideration that technique and art, the two fundamental pillars of the discipline, are necessary, complementary and have to be taught and exercised always taking each other into account.

This contribution to the congress proposes to take the example of several cases in which science has benefited from mixing with the profession, where art and technique have occurred simultaneously, thanks to the help of intermediate steps: the physical models, because in the models the ideas have been forced to come into contact with other sciences, to be interdisciplinary.