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A New Way To Improve Design Students’ Creativity - Based On Thinking Style, Yang Zhang
A New Way To Improve Design Students’ Creativity - Based On Thinking Style, Yang Zhang
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China is developing rapidly in many areas; currently over 50% of products (including household supplies, industrial products, some raw materials) in the world are 'made in China'. However, during the past 30 years of reformation and opening, there have been very few designers, educated in China, with a global reputation. To change current situation of 'made in china' to 'created in china', re-energizing Chinese design education is important. The research focus on higher education and explores new approaches to improve design students' creativity. Thinking styles are not dictate by physical condition. This indicates that we cannot judge a person’s thinking …
E-Learning As A Balanced Way Of Teaching Museums And Exhibitions To Provide Both Theoretical And Practical Education, Dina Zaki
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One of the challenges of teaching museums and exhibitions courses is that the lecturer has to both teach a theoretical curriculum and organize field trips. The aim is to make the student practice museum education as a model of communication-educational patterns, and recognizes the importance of art exhibitions in developing creativity within the curriculum of a bachelor stage of art education in Egypt. However, the course includes a large amount of knowledge, such as types of museums and the nature of art exhibitions, as well as the importance of museums, in addition to the practical portion, which includes the design …
A Phenomenographic Pilot Study Of Students’ Conceptions Of Design Research, Jesvin Puay-Hwa Yeo
A Phenomenographic Pilot Study Of Students’ Conceptions Of Design Research, Jesvin Puay-Hwa Yeo
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In view of the current inadequacies of design research, a group of art and design researchers have urged for alternative research methodologies, which is challenged by opposing views that a formal research structure and a rigorous research should similarly be applied to design research. To address these divergent views, this paper aims to explore the potential use of formal research procedures in design research. This study uses the phenomenography method as the basis of its research design. Focusing on visual communication studies at undergraduate level, this paper is a documentation of the development and implementation of the formal research procedures …
Constructing Design Knowledge Built Up On The Kindergarten Education, Meryem Yalcin
Constructing Design Knowledge Built Up On The Kindergarten Education, Meryem Yalcin
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This study aims to further the growing body of knowledge about design education with an alternative view; discussing the importance of beginning it at the kindergarten which ideally suits to the approach " develop the creative-thinking skills". In an environment where children" imagines, creates, practices, modifies, recognises, manipulates, shares etc..." knowledge, experiences and objects through play are crucial issues in the design education. Derived from this concern the study brings the argument of advancing and directing early childhood education on the basis of 'basic design issues' such as design principles, conceptualization, 2D/3D spatial allocation and composition more comprehensively which will …
Teaching New Product Development To Design Led Innovation, Cara Wrigley, Sam Bucolo
Teaching New Product Development To Design Led Innovation, Cara Wrigley, Sam Bucolo
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Recently many international tertiary educational programs have capitalised on the value design and business can have upon their interception (Martin, 2009; Brown, 2008; Bruce and Bessant, 2002; Manzini, 2009). This paper discusses the role that two teaching units – New Product Development and Design Led Innovation – play in forming an understanding of commercialisation needed in today’s Industrial Design education. These units are taught consecutively in the later years of the Bachelor of Industrial Design program at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. In this paper, each teaching unit is discussed in detail and then as a conglomerate, in …
The Creative Citizen: Understanding The Value Of Design Education Programs In The Knowledge Economy, Natalie Wright, Rebekah Davis, Sam Bucolo
The Creative Citizen: Understanding The Value Of Design Education Programs In The Knowledge Economy, Natalie Wright, Rebekah Davis, Sam Bucolo
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The knowledge economy relies on the diffusion and use of knowledge as well as its creation (Houghton and Sheenan, 2000). The future success of economic activity will depend on the capacity of organisations to transform by increasing their flexibility. In particular, this transformation is dependant on a decentralised, networked and multi-skilled workforce. To help organisations transition, new strategies and structures for education are required. Education systems need to concentrate less on specialist skills and more on the development of people with broad-based problem solving skills that are adaptable, with social and inter-personal communication skills necessary for networking and communication. This …
A Methodological Approach To Modelling Design Led Innovation Across Secondary Education: An Australian Case Study, Natalie Wright, Cara Wrigley, Sam Bucolo
A Methodological Approach To Modelling Design Led Innovation Across Secondary Education: An Australian Case Study, Natalie Wright, Cara Wrigley, Sam Bucolo
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Incorporating design thinking as a generic capability at a school level is needed to ensure future generations are empowered for business innovation and active citizenship. This paper describes the methodology of an investigation into modelling design led innovation approaches from the business sector to secondary education, as part of a larger study. It builds on a previously discussed research agenda by outlining the scope, significance and limitations of currently available research in this area, examining an action research methodology utilising an Australian design immersion program case study, and discussing implications and future work. It employs a triangulated approach encompassing thematic …
Design And Business Double Education: Cross-Country Comparison, Fabiane Wolff, Birgitte Borja De Mozota, Andrea Capra, Daniela Szabluk, Julia Stephanou Nascimento
Design And Business Double Education: Cross-Country Comparison, Fabiane Wolff, Birgitte Borja De Mozota, Andrea Capra, Daniela Szabluk, Julia Stephanou Nascimento
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Design thinking is the buzz in the management community these days. Managers are encouraged to get out of the box, apply user-oriented research and think more systemically and less analytically, the way designers are trained to do. Previous research on business education best-sellers in France and Brazil shows evidence that design is not considered or is restricted to a very limited content, pointing out that managers are not prepared to understand design. That reality is also perceived on the day by day relationships of both designers and managers and brings forth the issue of double education. Is it the solution? …
Developing Design Thinking Expertise In Higher Education, Andrew Withell, Neil Haigh
Developing Design Thinking Expertise In Higher Education, Andrew Withell, Neil Haigh
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Design Thinking describes a human-centred methodology for innovation, which has evolved from the study of the unique ways in which designers 'think', and 'practice'. There is growing evidence of the increased uptake of Design Thinking in design, business and other disciplines, and there is an emerging body of research. There is a need to develop sound University curricula that are founded in relevant theory and research findings, however, there appears to be a relatively small amount of rigorous research on the learning and teaching of Design Thinking. This paper presents the initial stages of a PhD research project that explores …
Fostering Deep Learning In Respect To The Social Aspects Of Sustainable Product Design, Matthew Watkins
Fostering Deep Learning In Respect To The Social Aspects Of Sustainable Product Design, Matthew Watkins
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This paper presents findings from a doctoral study, which investigated effective methods for teaching social sustainability within product design courses in British and Irish universities. Specifically exploring how appropriate methods can be used to foster deep learning in respect to the social aspects of sustainable product design.The importance of deep learning is reflected in both the sustainable design education (O’Rafferty et al., 2008, Griffith and Bamford, 2007) and education for sustainability literature (Warburton, 2003).Three 'Rethinking Design' workshops were designed and developed as part of the doctoral main study to introduce students to the wider social aspects of sustainability and were …
Low-Tech Skills In High-Tech Solutions Era: The Cognitive Benefits Of Basic Craft Techniques In Formal Design Education, Gordana Vrencoska
Low-Tech Skills In High-Tech Solutions Era: The Cognitive Benefits Of Basic Craft Techniques In Formal Design Education, Gordana Vrencoska
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The formal design education in the 21st century is confronted with an expanding list of challenges: knowledge availability on the Internet; handicraft vs. computer skills; amateurism; specialist vs. multidisciplinary curriculums; national vs. international agendas, etc. In a multifaceted design education where everything is accessible and the disciplines’ borders are blurred, there is a rising necessity for structured and intelligent design process, to reflect the need for smart and sustainable design solutions in the complex high-tech Era. Equipped with computers and internet resources, students are allowed instant access to infinite repositories of visual material and ready-for-digital-recycling creative solutions. This may accelerate …
Design Education For Social Sustainability, Su Vernon
Design Education For Social Sustainability, Su Vernon
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In a changing world how do we educate students for equitable global sustainability and embed design for social need in curricula? This paper explores pedagogic methods for people-centred design and considers the benefits this can provide for students, whilst preparing them for future careers in a globally challenging environment. Examples of user-focused design relating to health, wellbeing and education illustrate social and community issues driving design ideation, process and outcome. Inherent value gained through experiential learning is analysed alongside associated assessment issues. Researched case studies indicate that students engaging with people-centred projects and learning through leading acquire enhanced multi-faceted professional …
Listening Design: A New Methodology For Design And Innovation Processes, Rosanna Veneziano, Patrizia Ranzo, Giulia Scalera, Mara Rossi
Listening Design: A New Methodology For Design And Innovation Processes, Rosanna Veneziano, Patrizia Ranzo, Giulia Scalera, Mara Rossi
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The aim of the paper is to describe a design methodology in the area of innovation design highlighting the importance of sharing strategies, methods and listening practices to be implemented at specific stages in the project's development. The ability of creative systems to generate product or process innovation and to integrate creativity and know-how in the products is the necessary condition to promote design activities and the following competitive dynamics able to meet the needs of the ever-changing world of consumption. The presence of universities, defined as “engines of innovation” (Florida et al. 2002), in complex production territories can establish …
Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison
Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison
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Across the domains of design education the Design PhD is an area of much contemporary discussion and debate internationally. As the field of the discipline of design matures, so does its relationship with this qualification: its form, methods and relevance within and beyond the academy. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their respective observations of differing models of undertaking design PhDs and subsequent models of submission and examination. Founded in their observations of the diversity of design PhDs pedagogically and structurally, the authors have begun a global mapping of current PhDs in design and are exploring how the …
A “Filing System” For Teaching Research Skills In Interior Architecture Education, Jan Vanrie, Kris Pint
A “Filing System” For Teaching Research Skills In Interior Architecture Education, Jan Vanrie, Kris Pint
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Creating physical environments for humans, more specifically the design disciplines of interior architecture/design, involves a wide variety of aspects to be considered: material, technical, cultural, psychological, artistic... It is therefore important to provide students with the necessary tools (research skills) not only to address the different types of problems and questions that arise during this creative process, but –ultimately- also to ensure the continuing development of interior architecture as a profession and as an academic discipline through the development of its proper research methods. However, we have been coming across a number of obstacles and challenges in our effort to …
K-12 Design Education, Creativity, And The Corporate World, Robin Vande Zande
K-12 Design Education, Creativity, And The Corporate World, Robin Vande Zande
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Creativity has been described by a number of researchers as a 21st Century Skill and a way for students to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens. The corporate sector has had tremendous impact on what happens in American education for years and continues to do so. Teachers should understand that it is often beneficial to speak the language of business and cite corporate authors to offer validation for what they teach as being essential for creative skills. An effective way for teachers to teach creativity in the context of business is through design education, a natural integrator of various subject …
A Different Approach On Gaining Practical Experience By Acting As An (Open) Innovator At Industrial Design Engineering, Lenny Van Onselen, Rianne C. Valkenburg
A Different Approach On Gaining Practical Experience By Acting As An (Open) Innovator At Industrial Design Engineering, Lenny Van Onselen, Rianne C. Valkenburg
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At Industrial Design Engineering we aspire to provide contemporary education, both in the content of the program as well as the way in which we teach. We aim to facilitate our students to become responsible entrepreneurs of their own learning experience. At the start of the second year we challenge students to initiate, organise and execute individual, international research abroad for 3 months. Students have to choose a research topic, initiate contact with companies and set-up a project. This ambitious setup at first creates confusion and excitement among the students. However, facilitated by a step-by-step approach, students arrive to inspiring …
Human-Centered Design In Primary Schools: A Method To Develop Empathy With And Knowledge Of The Needs Of Elderly, Fenne Van Doorn, Remke Klapwijk
Human-Centered Design In Primary Schools: A Method To Develop Empathy With And Knowledge Of The Needs Of Elderly, Fenne Van Doorn, Remke Klapwijk
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Human-Centered Design is of growing importance for professional designers and in the past two decades a series of techniques for designers to develop understanding of and empathy with a diversity of users has been developed within this field. In the second half of the 20th century, intended users were involved late in the design process, i.e. during the testing of products or prototypes. More recently, the user is involved in the early phases, when the direction is set. Users have rich local contextual knowledge and can work together with professional designers. Although these techniques are now entering mainstream design education …
What Does It Mean To Be A “Materially Attuned” Practitioner?, Maiko Tsutsumi
What Does It Mean To Be A “Materially Attuned” Practitioner?, Maiko Tsutsumi
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This paper reports on research in progress that explores the potential role the materiality of things plays as a tool for the critical understanding of the human relationship with man-made objects. The paper argues that many designers habitually engage with production and consumption of meanings more through the materiality of things than words and symbols. It proposes a hypothesis that materiality is a key to understanding the context, knowledge and information the man-made objects may “embody”. Through the case study of an exhibition, the paper examines the ways in which this embodiment may be facilitated. Referring to Heidegger’s notion of …
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 …
Rotational Geometry As A Teaching Tool: Applying The Work Of Giorgio Scarpa, Pino Trogu
Rotational Geometry As A Teaching Tool: Applying The Work Of Giorgio Scarpa, Pino Trogu
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This paper focuses on a teaching unit in drawing for design that uses and applies Giorgio Scarpa’s principles and methods in rotational geometry, as put forth in his book Modelli di Geometria Rotatoria, (Models of rotational geometry, 1978), and tests their validity through the construction of physical models built by the students. These models are derived from the sectioning of regular polyhedra such as the cube. The resulting modules can be re-configured into closed or open “chains” capable of folding back into their original minimal volume. This process has parallels in geometric folding, such as in linkages, origami, and polyhedra …
The Four-Second Window: How The Time Constraint Of Working Memory And Other Psychological Principles Determine The Success Of A Graphic Design, Pino Trogu
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This article discusses universal psychological principles derived from cognitive psychology that are useful in creating an effective graphic design. The most important are: the strict constraints of working memory which persists about four seconds, the viewers’ co-construction of perception and meaning based upon their prior relevant background knowledge including their knowledge of culturally constituted design conventions, especially those of genre. If the designer consciously exploits these cognitively and culturally constituted principles the result will be an effective graphic within a specific geographic and temporal context. Better designs are likely to result from familiarity with these principles.
Design Pedagogy Special Interest Group Of Drs, Michael Tovey
Design Pedagogy Special Interest Group Of Drs, Michael Tovey
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This is the second symposium organised jointly by the Design Research Society and CUMULUS. The two organizations complement each other. CUMULUS is the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. It is a non-profit organization consisting of 165 universities and colleges of art, design and media from 43 countries. Cumulus was founded in 1990 and since then has been acting as an umbrella for many purposes and numerous projects for education and research of art, design and media. The Design Research Society is a multi-disciplinary learned society for the design research community worldwide. The DRS was …
Applying Design To Learning: Cognitive Science Supports Visual Language Principles In The Design Of Effective Reading Materials, Lou Tetlan
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This experimental study examined whether formatting of textbook content influenced reader engagement, understanding or recall of topics. The 48-student population, ages 18-25, represented equal numbers of males| females with two levels of reader-ability, proficient and remedial. Four topics on nutrition were redesigned in grayscale to create three additional formats for each topic: original text with graphic mark-ups; chunked text; and visual language format, thereby producing 16 topic-format stimuli. After participants read four separate topics, each in a different format, they completed: a Personal Background Form; Multiple Choice Test; Prior Knowledge Form; written Survey; verbal responses to Open-ended Questions regarding formats …
Education Process Of Design To Learn Urban Park Design For Non-Landscape Architecture Students, Rahman Tafahomi, Seyed Moslem Seyed Alhosseini, Farshad Noorian, Hasanuddin Lamit, Haidar Habibie
Education Process Of Design To Learn Urban Park Design For Non-Landscape Architecture Students, Rahman Tafahomi, Seyed Moslem Seyed Alhosseini, Farshad Noorian, Hasanuddin Lamit, Haidar Habibie
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The aim of this paper is to apply urban design disciplines as method of teaching in urban planning bachelor program especially for urban park design course. Contemporary situation of urban planning students identify that there are less design courses, so they normally less introduced with design principles also design bases in the department, and so this condition creates problems in the process of urban park designing. So methodology of this research based on the questionnaire technique with a comparative approach to ask opinions of students before and after the course. Finding of research identified that students were less introduced with …
Liminal Moments: Designing, Thinking And Learning, Manuela Taboada, Gretchen Coombs
Liminal Moments: Designing, Thinking And Learning, Manuela Taboada, Gretchen Coombs
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This paper provides a contextual reflection for understanding best practice teaching to first year design students. The outcome (job) focussed approach to higher education has lead to some unanticipated collateral damage for students, and in the case we discuss, has altered the students’ expectations of course delivery with specific implications and challenges for design educators. This tendency in educational delivery systems is further compounded by the distinct characteristics of Generation Y students within a classroom context. It is our belief that foundational design education must focus more on process than outcomes, and through this research with first year design students …
Multidisciplinary Design For Intercultural Learning. Crafting Digital Services For A Multicultural Society, Irina Suteu, Margherita Pillan
Multidisciplinary Design For Intercultural Learning. Crafting Digital Services For A Multicultural Society, Irina Suteu, Margherita Pillan
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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 …
Mobile Museum Communication Design And New Literacies, Dagny Stuedahl, Sarah Lowe
Mobile Museum Communication Design And New Literacies, Dagny Stuedahl, Sarah Lowe
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The relationship of technology to museum practices is a field that continues to evolve; acknowledging the potential for generating innovative engagement with museum visitors. Engagements that will require understandings on the part of museum communication that include: content travelling across contexts, iterative participatory methods suitable for mobile social media participation, and sustainability of the media involved. In this paper we demonstrate how the use of a small-scale prototype experiment is used as the basis for generating methods in which design thinking and cultural investigation can contribute to understanding emerging literacies for museum communication design. As a team of researchers making …
Designerly Well-Being: Implications For Pedagogy That Develops Design Capability, Kay Stables
Designerly Well-Being: Implications For Pedagogy That Develops Design Capability, Kay Stables
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The concept of "designerly well-being" identifies the value for individuals and society of the development of design capability inherent in all humans. This concept builds on ideas more generally of capability, well-being and democratic design. The paper explores pedagogic issues, particularly in relation to the development of an individual's understanding of themselves as a designer, how they engage effectively in the processes of designing and how they develop the confidence and confidence to positively exploit their own designerly capability in their personal life, social and community life or professional life. Key to this is the stance of the educator on …
Building The Narrative Cloud: Reflection And Distributed Cognition In A Design Studio Classroom, Omar Sosa Tzec, Jordan E. Beck, Martin A. Siegel
Building The Narrative Cloud: Reflection And Distributed Cognition In A Design Studio Classroom, Omar Sosa Tzec, Jordan E. Beck, Martin A. Siegel
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Education in Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d) aims to instill a human-centered perspective among its students, encouraging a designerly way of thinking that allows them to develop creative solutions that consider the implications and consequences of people interacting with technology. It has been known that a practicum (Schön, 1987) environment contributes to developing this way of thinking by means of reflection (Schön, 1987). We present in this paper a pedagogical approach based on narratives to be employed in studio-based courses for HCI/d. We discuss how oral and multimedia narratives support in conveying content-independent concepts that affect the learning experience. We propose …