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Critical Design Literacy Through Reflection In Design, Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus
Critical Design Literacy Through Reflection In Design, Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus
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This paper discusses a conceptual review of three frameworks for students’ reflection in general design education. The frameworks were selected for their different focus of attention on the students’ engagement with design products and environmental impacts. The review results indicated that the focus of attention had affected the topics of the questions for reflection; the questions of how related to product design, the questions of why related to environmental impacts and question of what related to plural solutions to challenges in both product design and environments. The paper discuss how researcher, teacher and students have different perspectives on whether these …
Interdisciplinary Boundary Experiences: Learning Through Conversations, Laura Ferrarello, Catherine Dormor
Interdisciplinary Boundary Experiences: Learning Through Conversations, Laura Ferrarello, Catherine Dormor
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The complexity of many social systems and organisations together with the challenges the world is facing in terms of climate and health demands imagining new ideas and approaches. Interdisciplinary collaboration offers good examples of strategies and practices better able to cope with this complexity, but they are reliant upon the dynamics within collaborations and good integration of perspectives. This paper considers an example of interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at growing mindsets capable of dialoguing with other disciplines through the boundary learning. Based within the Royal College of Art Master in Research, we stimulated a learning experience that leveraged the cyclical dynamics …
What Have You Learned? An Experimental Approach In Teaching Human Factors In Design To Undergraduate Id Students, Selen Sarıel
What Have You Learned? An Experimental Approach In Teaching Human Factors In Design To Undergraduate Id Students, Selen Sarıel
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This case study presents an in-class exercise as a way to learn about the course learning outcomes for a Human Factors in Design course carried out with undergraduate level industrial design students in the 2020-2021 academic year. The paper introduces the course content, comprised of the theoretical knowledge-sharing part, sample assignments and in-class exercises to define the context of the study. Watching the same short movie at the beginning and the end of the learning period, students responded to open-ended questions that encouraged them to think about how their perception had changed towards the content of the movie and to …
Ankara 2019: Insider Knowledge, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Fatma Korkut, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım
Ankara 2019: Insider Knowledge, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Fatma Korkut, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım
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The fifth conference of the Learn X Design series, DRSLXD2019, was held in Ankara between 9-12 July 2019, hosted by Middle East Technical University (METU).
Paris 2011: Researching Design Education, Erik Bohemia
Paris 2011: Researching Design Education, Erik Bohemia
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A number of events led to the development of the International Conference for Design Education Researchers. One of these was a declaration by the Dean of the Design School where I worked at the time that academics in the design field should not be pursuing design education research. I felt this was a poorly conceived idea as most design academics are concerned about their student's learning and thus would be motivated to become acquainted with practice-based research to evidence their ‘good’ pedagogical practices. Second, was the realisation that, in the UK, design education research was seen as uncritical and thus …
London 2017: The Allure Of The Digital And Beyond, Derek Jones
London 2017: The Allure Of The Digital And Beyond, Derek Jones
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The fourth international DRS PedSIG Conference on Design Education, LearnXDesign 2017, was held at the end of June 2017 in London, UK. Titled “The Allure of the Digital and Beyond”, the conference aimed to: “…bring together researchers and practitioners with an international reach and from a wide variety of education design settings with the intention of connecting emergent models and ideas around the digital, with the scholarship of teaching and learning”
Chicago 2015: Education And Design To Enlighten A Citizenry, Robin Vande Zande
Chicago 2015: Education And Design To Enlighten A Citizenry, Robin Vande Zande
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International Conference for Design Education Researchers, “LearnXDesign2015” was hosted by the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. At the heart of the conference was a comprehensive engagement of topics across design pedagogy and research through presentations, workshops, and conversations. Delegates from 34 countries and 120 institutions attended and presented high standard scholarship on methodologies and concepts. Diverse topics were covered such as improving the world through design, exploring biomimicry, changing learning environments, strategizing teacher training, and exploring creativity. The conference was a springboard for sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design research and education. Contributors were invited to submit …
Oslo 2013: Design Learning For Tomorrow, Liv Merete Nielsen
Oslo 2013: Design Learning For Tomorrow, Liv Merete Nielsen
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The 2nd Conference for Design Education Researchers was arranged 14-17th of May 2013 at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (now Oslo Metropolitan University). The thematic focus was Design Learning for Tomorrow. Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD, and it attracted 278 delegates from 43 countries. Researchers from more than 74 universities conducted a rigorous, double-blind review process of 225 full papers, from which 165 were selected for presentation at the conference and included in the four volumes of conference proceedings (Reitan et al., 2013). After the conference some papers were further developed and published in …
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 …
Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education, Jonathan Hamilton
Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education, Jonathan Hamilton
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Motion Graphics is relatively new subject and its methodologies are still being developed. There are useful lessons to be learnt from the practice in early cinema from the 1890's to the 1930's where Agile thinking was used by a number of practitioners including Fritz Lang. Recent studies in MA Motion Graphics have accessed some of this thinking incorporating them in a series of Motion Graphic tests and experiments culminating in a two minute animation “1896 Olympic Marathon”. This paper demonstrates how the project and its design methodology can contribute new knowledge for the practice and teaching of this relatively new …
Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice, Colin M. Gray, Martin A. Siegel
Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice, Colin M. Gray, Martin A. Siegel
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Research on design pedagogy has shown that students progress through a variety of barriers on the path to becoming a successful design practitioner, and that frameworks for explicit reflection can be beneficial to the development of design students. Schön uses the concept of reflection-on-action to describe one form of reflection on design practice, with the eventual goal of improving design processes and judgment. In this study, sketching is used as a form of reflection-on-action in a first semester intensive course in interaction design (IxD). This sketch reflects the student’s current understanding of the “whole game” or holistic view of design …
Informal Peer Critique And The Negotiation Of Habitus In A Design Studio, Colin M. Gray
Informal Peer Critique And The Negotiation Of Habitus In A Design Studio, Colin M. Gray
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Critique is considered to be a central feature of design education, serving as both a structural mechanism that provides regular feedback, and a high stakes assessment tool. This study utilizes informal peer critique as a natural extension of this existing form, engaging the practice community in reflection-in-action due to the natural physical co-location of the studio environment. The purpose of this study is to gain greater understanding of the pedagogical role of informal critique in shaping design thinking and judgment, as seen through the framing of Bourdieu’s habitus. The methodology of this study is informed by a critical theory perspective, …