This paper explores the impact of contextual matters on the production of design and outlines challenges facing a distributed design studio model. By describing contextual difference as well as similarity, it offers some insights into how communication around the development of a response to context is undertaken and seeks to understand how it might be enhanced.

Author contact details:
Patrick Macklin, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, p.macklin@gsa.ac.uk,
Pamela Flanagan, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, p.flanagan@gsa.ac.uk
Nadia Wagner, The Glasgow School of Art, Singapore, n.wagner@gsa.ac.uk