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Bringing The University Into The Rural Community, The Value And Dangers Of Taking Design Education Out Of The Classroom, B. Canniffe, D. Adams, B. Wiley

Brian M. Wiley

Art and design education prepares students for careers that increasingly don't exist, and further compounds this issue by purveying the myth that these supposed opportunities exist in major cities where jobs are scarce and cost-of-living is overwhelming. While there are many potential reasons for this, the end result is that students, already saddled with an increased debt-load, are progressively destined to fail.

During the summer of 2012, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in partnership with the Bush Foundation engaged with two rural communities in the Western and Northern areas of Minnesota, USA, to develop meaningful partnerships that …

A User-Centred Approach To Effective Wayfinding Map Design : Integrating Theory, Practice And User Participation. (Dissertation), Christopher Kueh

Christopher Kueh

This thesis develops a unified theoretical framework for the design of effective wayfinding maps for city and town environments. The framework is based on user-centred approaches. It integrates theories and perspectives from the disciplines of cartography, architecture, cognitive science, graphic/information/communication design, via constructivism and cybernetics. Disciplines such as cartography, geography, cognitive science, and spatial visualisation technology are conceptualising theories and developing new methods of visualising the built environment, while graphic designers, information designers, communication designers, and individual business (such as shop owners and hotels) are the major producers of current wayfinding maps. Theoretical concerns from the academic disciplines are not …