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A Polydisciplinary Journey: From Coffee To Prototype, Carmen Trudell
A Polydisciplinary Journey: From Coffee To Prototype, Carmen Trudell
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Several literatures acknowledge that design education has been shifting from the mere training of young students to be skilled professionals to a more profound understanding of the social context in which the future designs will emerge (Norman, 2010) (Findeli, 2001)(Frascara, 2007). This comes from the increased understanding that in order to craft sustainable and viable products, being material or virtual, students have to refer in the first place to their living environment and feed their creativity with the challenges experienced in real life. For educators this starts firstly an investigation on how to guide their students in the exploration of …
Design English Collaboration And Presentation: Developing International Designers At A Japanese University, Mark D. Sheehan, Jack Ryan, Yasuko Takayama, Ikuro Mine, Satoshi Kose
Design English Collaboration And Presentation: Developing International Designers At A Japanese University, Mark D. Sheehan, Jack Ryan, Yasuko Takayama, Ikuro Mine, Satoshi Kose
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This study reports on a long-term project to improve the English presentation skills of students in the Faculty of Design at a Japanese university. The first two years of a collaborative effort to pair Industrial Design majors with advanced students in the Department of International Culture to collaborate on a product or product concept and present their work in English will be described. Recent measures to improve English education in Japan include the introduction of English study in elementary school, and adopting communicative-based learning in high schools. At the university level, content-based English education, or English for Specific Purposes (ESP), …
Merging Creative Design And Cad Learning Activities In A Product Design Programme, Pearl O'Rourke, Colm O'Kane, Leslie Smith, Michael Ring
Merging Creative Design And Cad Learning Activities In A Product Design Programme, Pearl O'Rourke, Colm O'Kane, Leslie Smith, Michael Ring
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Traditional learning and teaching methods for creativity differ from those used in a scientific context. Although the creative process can benefit from a certain level of prescription and structural constraint - with time allocated to research, problem definition, conceptualisation and idea development - flexibility and fluidity are necessary for creative innovation. In contrast, the more linear and rigid pedagogies associated with science and engineering education facilitate efficient learning of subjects such as those based on software packages, manufacturing and materials theory or mechanics. This paper describes the development of a project which aims to establish constructive links between the learning …
Tell It With Colours: Case Study Of Multidisciplinary Educational Program For Non-Designer, Mari-Ann Letnes, Ingvild Olsen Olaussen
Tell It With Colours: Case Study Of Multidisciplinary Educational Program For Non-Designer, Mari-Ann Letnes, Ingvild Olsen Olaussen
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The aim of this paper is to identify qualities associated with pupils' interactions with aesthetic learning processes when creating multimodal texts. The study addressed the following research question: How do pupils experience and interact with the appearance of aesthetic elements when they create multimodal expression? The topic chosen is associated with an interest in children’s encounters with art and developing an understanding that will assist practitioners who work with creative processes in their daily activities to take part in teaching in schools. This facilitates the expression of creativity as well as innovation and the development of the pupils’ sensibility with …
Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal
Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal
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Since 1994, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Design/Education (LIDE) has been cataloguing works that report experiences, graduation projects and postgraduate researches focusing on the teaching of Design and Design in Education. This paper gathers a collection of the main projects developed in LIDE since its creation and that integrate the research directory of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development –CNPq, with the aim to make available to academia and society a vision about researches dealing with Education in Design and Design on Education. Those are broad research fields; still few explored and, incidentally, that have been objects of research …
Connecting For Impact: Multidisciplinary Approaches To Innovation In Small To Medium Sized Enterprises (Smes), Marc Bailey, Neil Smith, Mersha Aftab
Connecting For Impact: Multidisciplinary Approaches To Innovation In Small To Medium Sized Enterprises (Smes), Marc Bailey, Neil Smith, Mersha Aftab
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This paper reveals the methodology developed and adopted by groups of Multidisciplinary Design Innovation Masters students whilst working on projects with regional Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SME’s). It exposes an eight-stage approach and shows how the creation of a ‘problem-space tapestry’ acts as a mediator between different disciplinary approaches. The authors used a combinationof observation, interview, post project-analysis and auto ethnographic reflection in order to uncover this process and to draw conclusions about the conditions that are necessary to support university based multidisciplinary design-led innovation projects of this type.