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Towards A Design Observatory In Portugal – Results, Reflections And Future Steps, Nina Costa, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa, Afonso Borges, Marlene Ribeiro
Towards A Design Observatory In Portugal – Results, Reflections And Future Steps, Nina Costa, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa, Afonso Borges, Marlene Ribeiro
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The closure of the Portuguese design center in 2013, left Portugal with no instruments of mediation between the Portuguese design ecosystem and the socio-economic fabric. DesignOBS (Towards a design observatory in Portugal) - a research project aiming to identify, map and interpret the Portuguese design landscape (2019-22), aimed to tackle this issue via the development and application of a distributed and participatory observation approach, that integrated the knowledge of local nuclei, namely, design schools, about certain vectors of the national design ecosystem. The application of this approach to gather and discuss about the different vectors (design companies, education, research, users), …
Climate Adaptation In Design Education: Applying A Four-Step Research By Design Strategy, Ifigenia Psarra, Luc Willekens
Climate Adaptation In Design Education: Applying A Four-Step Research By Design Strategy, Ifigenia Psarra, Luc Willekens
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the insights gained by testing in a design studio a particular research by design strategy, focusing on the generation of innovative climate adaptation solutions. The strategy is based on the Design Thinking Process and has been applied in the climate adaptation design studio, which took place in 2022 at a Master of Architecture degree program in the Netherlands. The case study area was the Zernike university campus in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is situated in the verge between the city and the surrounding rural landscape, facing the urgent climate change challenges of …
An Analysis Of International Design Education Programs Training Students’ Competencies And Skills For Tackling Complex Social Challenges, Xue Pei, Federica Colombo
An Analysis Of International Design Education Programs Training Students’ Competencies And Skills For Tackling Complex Social Challenges, Xue Pei, Federica Colombo
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This paper presents a study investigating the competencies and skills related to dealing with complex social challenges that are taught in top-ranking international design universities and colleges. It starts with a literature review to identify the required competencies and skills for designers to do so. 6 main clusters of skills: obtaining a comprehensive perspective, overcoming disciplinary barriers in collaboration, communication, and negotiation, integrating management logic and mindset, utilising continuously evolving technology, and traditional design skills, as well as 14 sub-clusters of skills are categorised. Afterward, the study analyses the syllabus, program, and course descriptions of 16 design education programs that …
Photoreflexivity: Supporting Reflexivity For Students In Design Education, Marije Ten Brink, Marije Kanis, Bert Bredeweg, Tamara Witschge, Ben Schouten
Photoreflexivity: Supporting Reflexivity For Students In Design Education, Marije Ten Brink, Marije Kanis, Bert Bredeweg, Tamara Witschge, Ben Schouten
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This paper describes the development and results of the pedagogical photo-based method PhotoReflexivity. This method is designed to support reflexivity for students in design education, which guides them in better understanding and situating themselves in the outside world. To uncover the value of this method, mixed research methods including iterative prototypes were deployed in real-world learning scenarios with design students. Attitudes, behaviour, and reflexive conversations were analysed, from which design patterns and recommendations were derived. It is argued that PhotoReflexivity fills a gap in design education by aiming for extensive and transformational outcomes associated with reflexivity, which previous research has …
Adapting Future Designer Curricula: A Comparative Analysis Of Design Future Skills In Learning Outcomes, Emily Wright
Adapting Future Designer Curricula: A Comparative Analysis Of Design Future Skills In Learning Outcomes, Emily Wright
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There is a rising imperative for design education programs to better prepare graduates for the challenges of the future job market. Future work contexts forecast rising complexity which requires designers to upskill in cross-disciplinary collaboration as well as adapt to the demands of data-driven and agile design. The challenge and constraints of revising curricula, let alone introducing significant change, cannot be underestimated. This paper presents the AIGA Designer 2025 as a framework tool to assess the effectiveness of a non-traditional design education program. A comparative analysis of learning outcomes was undertaken with three case studies within an Australian university design …
Planet-Oriented Design: A Proposal For New Ethical Transitions In Design Education, Martin Tironi, Marcos Chilet
Planet-Oriented Design: A Proposal For New Ethical Transitions In Design Education, Martin Tironi, Marcos Chilet
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We live through a socio-environmental, socio-political and socio-technical crisis that forces us to ask ourselves urgent questions about our planet. The article explores the need to transition from human-centred design to forms of design with a terrestrial vision. Based on the experience of the School of Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it explores the potential of Planet-Oriented design as an articulator of new practices and a new ethic of teaching and doing design. The recent social phenomena - such as the Chilean social uprising of 2019 - added to the planetary crises in which we live opened …
Usage Of Service Design Pattern Language As A Method For Beginners To Effectively Acquire Their Behaviors Towards Design, Kaoru Yamamoto, Momoko Nakatani
Usage Of Service Design Pattern Language As A Method For Beginners To Effectively Acquire Their Behaviors Towards Design, Kaoru Yamamoto, Momoko Nakatani
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In the complex society of VUCA, individuals without design expertise will be required to address problems that lack a clear solution, so called “Wicked Problems”. This study examines the potential of “Service Design Pattern Language” as a method to assist non-design experts in tackling such challenges by themselves, by acquiring behavior of design. Service Design Pattern Language captures the implicit knowledge of service designers who work on problems without clear solutions and transforms it into patterns. In current design education, mentoring and facilitation by experts are often necessary to develop the behaviors for design. However, if Service Design Pattern Language …
Studio Matters, Derek Jones, Colin M. Gray, Lorraine Marshalsey, Elizabeth Boling, Nicole Lotz, James Corazzo, James Benedict Brown
Studio Matters, Derek Jones, Colin M. Gray, Lorraine Marshalsey, Elizabeth Boling, Nicole Lotz, James Corazzo, James Benedict Brown
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The chairs' introductory editorial for the theme track 'Studio Matters'.
A Place We Call Home: Curriculum For Land-Based Education, Adolfo Ruiz
A Place We Call Home: Curriculum For Land-Based Education, Adolfo Ruiz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper describes initial research into the creation of curriculum that combines visual communication design with local Indigenous knowledge in the Tłı̨chǫ Dene region of subarctic Canada. This curriculum is intended for regional youth, and to be accredited by the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta. Situated outside dominant models of design education, the following sections illustrate the significant role that embodied knowledge and relationality can play in land-based pedagogy. As part of this discussion, the field of design is situated as an intermediary between an Indigenous community and a Western academic institution. Through a reflexive, narrative form …
Differential Moral Framing And The Design Imagination, Philippe Gauthier, Sébastien Proulx
Differential Moral Framing And The Design Imagination, Philippe Gauthier, Sébastien Proulx
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The objective of this paper is to provide a proof of concept for a pedagogical apparatus aiming to foster moral education and reflection about the inner good of their practice among apprentice-designers. We designed this tool with the aim of helping students understand how modern moral pluralism imprints professional mores, and how particular conceptions of the good life may affect the way they envision and devise how the world should be (and how they ought to design it). Our tool comes in the form of a role-playing game based on different species of worth coexisting in modern democracies, and that …
Deep Products Via Undisciplined Stewardship: Towards An Environmentally-Led Design Pedagogy For The 21st Century, Fernando Galdon, Ashley Hall
Deep Products Via Undisciplined Stewardship: Towards An Environmentally-Led Design Pedagogy For The 21st Century, Fernando Galdon, Ashley Hall
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designers are envisioning new typologies of products aiming for instance to ex-tract CO2 from the environment or creating products from landfill waste, in this context a fundamental question arises; what could be a philosophical framework for a subtractive practise in design? In this paper the notion of Deep Products is introduced by building from notions of Deep ecology, Deep Design, and steward-ship. This theoretical proposition addresses the design of products from a life-cycle perspective through contemporary notions of subtraction-by-design. The model presented transitions design to a model demanding extended projects considering every aspect of the life-cycle of products, from inception …
Touch Ground: Introducing Design Inquiry In Higher Education, Guido Stompff, Manon Joosten, Andrea Prince, Marleen Claessens, Willy Geurts, Anja Köppchen
Touch Ground: Introducing Design Inquiry In Higher Education, Guido Stompff, Manon Joosten, Andrea Prince, Marleen Claessens, Willy Geurts, Anja Köppchen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In higher education, design thinking is often taught as a process. Yet design cognition resides in action and design practices. Dewey’s pragmatism offers a solid epistemology for design thinking. This paper describes a design research whereby Dewey’s inquiry served as the foundation for educating students. Three extensive educational case studies are presented whereby a design inquiry was introduced and became part of the curricula. It was found that students and coaches struggled with doubts experienced as a result of the co-evolution of problem and solution, means and ends. Four coping mechanisms were observed: (1) focus on problems, risking analysis paralysis; …
Democratic Design Literacy Research, Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus
Democratic Design Literacy Research, Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper presents ideas about education and democracy embedded in studies on de-sign literacy for sustainability. The descriptions of one semi-structured group interview study and one action research study provided in three research papers are analysed in light of three different conceptions of education and democracy. The analysis outlines how the research methods used in situations in which students (1) engage in questions, introductions and tightly structured tasks developed from research-based knowledge; (2) interact with and share their thoughts and reflections in groups; and (3) respond to open-ended questions contribute to research enabling design education for democracy, design education through …
Making Posters To Understand Statistics: Towards A Didactical Approach In Communication Design, Michele Mauri, Simone Vantini, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Elena Aversa, Andrea Benedetti, María De Los Ángeles Briones Rojas, Gabriele Colombo
Making Posters To Understand Statistics: Towards A Didactical Approach In Communication Design, Michele Mauri, Simone Vantini, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Elena Aversa, Andrea Benedetti, María De Los Ángeles Briones Rojas, Gabriele Colombo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The paper describes a didactical approach to introducing statistics to communication design students at the master level. The approach helps them develop a critical attitude toward data manipulation and information visualization, acknowledging a lack of education in such areas despite their growing relevance in the communication design field. In previous experiences, we observed how theoretical lessons in statistics were inefficient because they were perceived as distant from the communication design practice. We, therefore, adopted a “thinking-through-doing” approach: instead of asking students to study statistical methods, we asked them to design a poster explaining them. In the paper, we present the …
Organizational Learning Through Collaborative Project-Based Service Design Course: The Flip Side Of The Coin, Suzan Boztepe
Organizational Learning Through Collaborative Project-Based Service Design Course: The Flip Side Of The Coin, Suzan Boztepe
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Collaborating with public or private sector organizations in project-based courses equips design students with key skills to future-proof their careers, but this gives only one side of the story as the key feature of these partnerships is that they are mutualistic collaborations. However, the benefits to organizations of collaborating are not fully explored. This paper presents a case study of partnerships with four different public organizations in a service design course over a five-year period. It argues that collaborating in project-based courses serves as risk-free experimentation and paves the way for organizational learning. The paper first reviews the existing research …
A Community-Based Learning Program To Improve Wellbeing And Design Student Success, Marie Van Den Bergh, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Rebecca Price
A Community-Based Learning Program To Improve Wellbeing And Design Student Success, Marie Van Den Bergh, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Rebecca Price
DRS Biennial Conference Series
While the Pandemic has increased awareness towards student wellbeing in higher education (HE), it also exacerbated existing challenges. Specifically, students pursuing their master graduation thesis often find themselves isolated and overwhelmed due to the individualistic nature of their project and the pressure to create a ‘masterpiece’. In this paper, we provide insight into how designing for community can positively impact thesis design students’ motivation, sense of community and wellbeing, which we identify as drivers of student success. We discuss and evaluate a community-based learning (CBL) program we designed and implemented to improve student success during the master thesis journey of …
The Desire To Excel In Design Education: Have We Pushed It Too Far?, Marie Van Den Bergh, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Rebecca Price
The Desire To Excel In Design Education: Have We Pushed It Too Far?, Marie Van Den Bergh, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Rebecca Price
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In our work as design educators, we have been experimenting with and researching a range of initiatives that aim to improve design student wellbeing, learning outcomes and designer resilience at TU Delft and at the University of Technology Sydney. One aspect that has come up repeatedly in our work is this pressure to perform and its tension with learning and wellbeing. We used this DRS22 conversation to explore this topic more deeply.
Who Designs For Policy?, Federico Vaz, Sofía Bosch Gomez
Who Designs For Policy?, Federico Vaz, Sofía Bosch Gomez
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This conversation asked participants to inquire about the skills and compe- tencies of those engaging in the practice of design for policy. We discussed the profes- sional background and training of people currently working as ‘policy designers’ and the knowledge and abilities these designers contribute when developing and imple- menting public policies, services, and governance. Likewise, we aimed to bring to- gether practitioners and researchers to debate the implications of creating specific dis- ciplinary profiles and how this can shape career paths within public administration. During the conversation, participants offered a set of mindsets, skills, and knowledge that they deemed …
How Might Design Contribute To A Circular Economy, Susan Evans, Mia B. Münster
How Might Design Contribute To A Circular Economy, Susan Evans, Mia B. Münster
DRS Biennial Conference Series
80 percent of the environmental impact of products and services is deter- mined in the design phase. Since the designer’s job takes place at the initial phase of any design process, designers are in a unique position to effect change in this area. Designers have knowledge of the supply chains and networks that drive, not only de- sign process, but also those that support the production and implementation of de- signs. It is therefore relevant to discuss how design can play a role in the transition towards Circular Economy. In this vein the research question as set for this conversa- …
Design + Ethics: How Is It More Than The Sum Of Its Parts?, Deger Ozkaramanli, Michael Nagenborg, Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar, Sanna Lehtinen, Christine Schwobel-Patel, Laura Ferrarello
Design + Ethics: How Is It More Than The Sum Of Its Parts?, Deger Ozkaramanli, Michael Nagenborg, Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar, Sanna Lehtinen, Christine Schwobel-Patel, Laura Ferrarello
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The discussion of ethics in design has so far relied on theories and approaches from other disciplines. We argue that design can benefit from an explicit discussion on the ethics of its methods and practices that arises from within the discipline. This Conversation aimed at stimulating this discussion. Around 25 people attended in person, in addition to the online participants. We asked our audience about the main approaches they use for ethical inquiry and discussed the opportunities and challenges of applying these. We found out that ethics may best be framed as an invitation to care, without reducing it to …
Critical Pedagogy And The Pluriversal Design Studio, Colin M. Gray
Critical Pedagogy And The Pluriversal Design Studio, Colin M. Gray
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Studio learning is central to the teaching of design. However, the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside emerging and historic critiques of studio ped-agogy, creates a space for critical engagement with the present and potential futures of design education in studio. In this paper, I outline historic critiques of studio pedagogy, drawing primarily from critical pedagogy literature to frame is-sues relating to disempowerment, student agency, and monolithic representa-tions of the student role and student development. I build upon this critical foundation to reimagine studio practices as pluriversal, recognizing the challeng-es and opportunities of bridging epistemological differences and facilitating the potential …
Internship As A Child: What Designers Can Learn Through Play With Children, Karen Feder
Internship As A Child: What Designers Can Learn Through Play With Children, Karen Feder
DRS Biennial Conference Series
When designing for children’s play, designers need to understand the people and the context for which they are designing. This paper studies what designers can learn through play when completing an internship as a child, meaning spending time with children in their everyday lives without a predefined agenda. The data material involves reflective letters written by former design students who participated in an internship four years ago, as part of a Master’s course in child-centred design for play. The analysis of the letters shows how designers learn about play, children, designers, the method, and reflection when doing an in-ternship as …
Design, One Piece Of The Puzzle: A Conceptual And Practical Perspective On Transdisciplinary Design, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer
Design, One Piece Of The Puzzle: A Conceptual And Practical Perspective On Transdisciplinary Design, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Transdisciplinary research is claimed to be essential in tackling today’s complex societal challenges. Transdisciplinarity includes collaboration and integration across academic disciplines, non-academic ways of knowing, and the ‘real world’ of citizens, professionals and other stakeholders. Design can contribute to transdisciplinarity by framing complex challenges, integrating knowledge towards synthesizing solutions, and providing participatory practices to engage with the real world. However, for design to be successful in transdisciplinary research contexts, a better understanding of transdisciplinarity and design is required. In this paper I present a conceptual and practical perspective on transdisciplinary de-sign. I show how design relates to three different conceptions …
Socially-Engaged Distance Design Collaboration, Kardelen Aysel, Can Güvenir
Socially-Engaged Distance Design Collaboration, Kardelen Aysel, Can Güvenir
Learn X Design Conference Series
Applied design education was required to replicate the socially constructivist structure through digital tools due to Covid-19 Pandemic. However the effects of the distant design education over the students’ learning experience is not stated yet. For this reason, this study aims to discuss how the affective learning outcomes, creative and design self-efficacy and visual literacy level, of design students. Within this framework, the effects of distance education in the scope of introduction to industrial design course was indicated and discussed through reflections and self-evaluation surveys. The study was held with 26 1st year industrial design students in the fall semester …
A Game Implementation Approach For Design Education, Duhan Ölmez, Fehmi Doğan
A Game Implementation Approach For Design Education, Duhan Ölmez, Fehmi Doğan
Learn X Design Conference Series
This paper proposes a new implementation of video games to be used as an architectural design education tool within design studios. There are studies which include video games in design educa-tion, however, they include video games either as mere representational media, or simplified de-sign environments, or as just visualization tools. Video games’ structures provide a ground for de-signing with constraints to find solutions to ill-defined design problems with a trial-and-error pro-cess. As an addition to traditional master and apprentice model of learning in the studio, video games can reduce the workload of the tutors and allow them to focus on …
A New Design Thinking Model Based On Bloom’S Taxonomy, Fan Wu, Yang Cheng Lin, Peng Lu
A New Design Thinking Model Based On Bloom’S Taxonomy, Fan Wu, Yang Cheng Lin, Peng Lu
Learn X Design Conference Series
A superior design thinking model can improve the quality of design education. In recent years, universities and design institutions already proposed many design thinking models around the world. Existing well-known design thinking models focus on cultivating students' creative thinking but ignore the product's inherent characteristics and users' demands. This paper proposes a step-by-step design thinking model based on Bloom's taxonomy, which is divided into lower-level and higher-level considerations. The lower-level consideration includes remembering, understanding, and applying, and the higher-level consideration includes analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The former integrates the function analysis method, form restriction method, and EGM to help students …
Cross-Cultural Ux Pedagogy: A China–Us Partnership, Ziqing Li, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, Kevin Mcdonald, Lukas Marinovic, Wei Liu
Cross-Cultural Ux Pedagogy: A China–Us Partnership, Ziqing Li, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, Kevin Mcdonald, Lukas Marinovic, Wei Liu
Learn X Design Conference Series
The recent emergence of new undergraduate and graduate design programs with a focus specific to User Experience (UX) offers new opportunities to engage with the complexity of these educational practices. In this paper, we report on a series of ten interviews with students and faculty to describe cross-cultural connections between two UX-focused programs, one in China and one in the United States. Our study includes the perspectives of students who engaged in intercultural UX experiences, as well as the perspectives of the faculty who designed those student experiences through an intercultural partnership. We report on how each program was created, …
Research On The Construction Of Curriculum System Of Design Education Under The Concept Of Steam, Han Shi, Feng Xue, Jing Pei, Yijing Li, Zhihang Song, Chunli Chunli
Research On The Construction Of Curriculum System Of Design Education Under The Concept Of Steam, Han Shi, Feng Xue, Jing Pei, Yijing Li, Zhihang Song, Chunli Chunli
Learn X Design Conference Series
Both design education and STEAM education pay attention to the cultivation of students' innovative consciousness and practical ability, and they are highly consistent in teaching objectives and educational ideas. Based on the analysis of the relevant educational practice, the current research situation and the basic concepts of design education, this paper puts forward the curriculum design principles of curriculum content and curriculum evaluation for the design education integrated with STEAM. This paper constructs the teaching link of design education under the concept of STEAM from three aspects: teachers' activities, teaching links and students' activities. finally, it discusses the new teaching …
Learning Patterns In Architectural Design Studios, Julie Milovanovic
Learning Patterns In Architectural Design Studios, Julie Milovanovic
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Learning how to design as an architect is the main objective of architectural design studios. Stu-dents develop design knowledge as they learn by designing, guided by their tutors. This study highlights characteristics of design critiques organization over time by analyzing design activities (designing vs. explain design) and collaboration between students and tutors. In this exploratory study, four design critiques from a master design studio in architecture are analyzed based on the protocol analysis methodology. Moments when students can acquire design knowledge are identified based on the type of design activity: designing - Description, Reflection, Design Move – or explaining design …
Research On The Constituency Of The Advisory Committee Of Chinese Design Schools From A Sustainable Perspective, Fan Chen, Lin Li, Jing-Yi Yang
Research On The Constituency Of The Advisory Committee Of Chinese Design Schools From A Sustainable Perspective, Fan Chen, Lin Li, Jing-Yi Yang
Learn X Design Conference Series
The design and education fields have been starting to pay attention to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ever since 2019, and the following two events would affirm this tendency. Firstly, the committee of the iF Design Award triggered to adopt SDGs as their evaluation standard. Secondly, the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings began to as-sess the performance of 768 universities from 85 countries against SDGs. This reflect a broader consideration towards sustainability has been establishing. Based on the context, this study inquired about the sustainable quality of nine educational institutions of design in China under an advisory committee perspective, which …