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Thinking With Card: Tactile And Making-Based Resources For Active Remote Learning In Stem Subjects, Benjamin Hughes
Thinking With Card: Tactile And Making-Based Resources For Active Remote Learning In Stem Subjects, Benjamin Hughes
Learn X Design Conference Series
Thinking with Card is an online resource that encourages active learning through making activities linked to subjects within core STEM curricula. The (bilingual) resources are aimed at Key Stage 2 and 3 students (UK) and Middle School students (China) (approx age 7-14). The project was launched in July 2020 in response to the pandemic and corresponding need for stimulating activities suitable for home and remote learning. The free downloadable models can be printed and constructed using simple tools and have shown to help students understand complex concepts which are difficult to grasp from textbooks or even demonstrations (e.g. the relationship …
Distributed Thinking Through Making: Towards A Relational Ontology In Practice-Led Design Research, Luis Vega
Distributed Thinking Through Making: Towards A Relational Ontology In Practice-Led Design Research, Luis Vega
Nordes Conference Series
Practice-led design research is a celebrated but debated field of inquiry. Although it offers appropriate tools to advance design knowledge through and within making, its scope remains limited to the scale of individual practice. Such a limitation hinders the possibility to account for particular design instances in relation to more general contexts. To address this issue, the paper at hand presents an exploratory literature review discussing why practice-led design research may benefit from adopting a relational ontology—i.e., a stance wherein to be is to relate. The review identifies two streams of relational thinking that exhibit potential overlaps with practice-led design …