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Virtual And Blended Design Studios, Nicole Lotz, Erik Bohemia, Georgy Holden, Sam Dunne, Joi Roberts
Virtual And Blended Design Studios, Nicole Lotz, Erik Bohemia, Georgy Holden, Sam Dunne, Joi Roberts
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The design studio has been the preferred environment to support creative, social and artefact-centred design education and practice. While corporate design studios become increasingly connected across locations, design education becomes progressively augmented with virtual learning environments.Virtual and blended studios differ from traditional physical environments in significant ways. With designers working at a distance, the people, resources, and objects of design are not physically co-located, which poses particular challenges but also offers some unique benefits.This conversation is going to tackle the question: How can we best support learners in virtual design studios?
Beautiful Nerds: Growing A Rigorous Design Research Dialogue In The Irish Context, Adam De Eyto, Carmel Maher, Mark Hadfield, Maggie Hutchings
Beautiful Nerds: Growing A Rigorous Design Research Dialogue In The Irish Context, Adam De Eyto, Carmel Maher, Mark Hadfield, Maggie Hutchings
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Ireland is a country with a small and emergent design research community. Relative to other countries, the practice of design itself in Ireland is a recent development with the first formal design courses materialising in the mid-1970s. Without historical legacy and sustained coordinated support from design specific state development agencies, the progress of this nascent Irish design sector has been fragmented and unfocused. Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) a yearlong government backed initiative sought to address this lack of coherence in tandem with increasing the visibility and profile of Irish design. This article reflects on the historical context Irish design research …