摘要：Intercultural student exchange can positively impact education,research,and ***-by-design has been put forward in design education as an approach to explicitly address the integration of education and *** problem is that design schools develop their own interpretation of this approach,which brings difficulty in virtually comparing and learning from the generated design *** case is evident in intercultural parallel design studios that deal with diverging socio-cultural and institutional *** addressing this problem and maximizing the benefits of intercultural exchange,this study proposes to adopt a meta perspective and use the design as co-evolution model as a framework for analyzing and comparing design data generated by different research-by-design *** study applies this meta perspective on an intercultural architectural design studio jointly organized by Ton Due Thang University(Vietnam)and Hasselt University(Belgium).