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Question Asking In Design Reviews: How Does Inquiry Facilitate The Learning Interaction?, Carlos C. M. Cardoso, Özgür Eriş, Petra Badke-Schaub, Marco Aurisicchio

Design Thinking Research Symposium

Design reviews are common educational practice in design disciplines, where students meet with instructors and other stakeholders to discuss the progress of a project they are engaged in. Such reviews are tightly coupled with project-based learning approaches in the design studio. A number of research studies have looked into various characteristics of instructor-student interactions during design reviews. In this study, we investigated the question-asking behavior of instructors, students and clients. We paid particular attention to high-level questions that relate to causal and generative reasoning. We analyzed 22 reviews involving six undergraduate industrial designers, who undertook design projects individually. We observed …