Wicked Futures: Metadesign, Resilience And Transformative Classrooms,
2013
Kelvin Grove State College
Wicked Futures: Metadesign, Resilience And Transformative Classrooms, Les Hooper, Sue Fraser Welch, Natalie Wright
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This paper presents an Australian case study entitled “Designing Futures”. It examines a six month multidisciplinary design program offered by a large coeducational, inner-city state school in Queensland in 2011. The program extended an already successful and innovative school-based design curriculum and involved students in Philosophy, Science, Mathematics and English classes, as well those in Art and Design. Additionally, there were 5 full-day workshops where students combined a wide range of skills to brainstorm, design and create sustainable solutions. The design thinking used in this program was based on the concepts of metadesign, design activism and design futuring. “Designing Futures” …
Like Or Dislike: Aesthetic Judgements On Textile Patterns,
2013
Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
Like Or Dislike: Aesthetic Judgements On Textile Patterns, Siri Homlong
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In different areas of handicraft and textile production, teachers, researchers, purchasers and others have to judge products based on different factors such as function, aesthetics, taste and so on. The whole process of designing – from ideas and visions to finished product – includes aesthetic judgements: In the first planning phase, several sketches are made that can later be changed, adjusted and further developed. When a product is finished, further judgements are needed: designers and artisans evaluate the result of their efforts, teachers judge the works of pupils or students and purchasers or consumers judge the suitability of the textile …
Teaching ‘Design Thinking’ In The Context Of Innovation Management—From Process To A Dialogue About Principles,
2013
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
Teaching ‘Design Thinking’ In The Context Of Innovation Management—From Process To A Dialogue About Principles, Monika Hestad, Jamie Brassett
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There has been increased interest in design and ‘design thinking’ in recent times. This has led to the development of a number of interdisciplinary courses where non-designers have the opportunity to learn so-called ‘design thinking’. However, ‘design thinking’ is an ambiguous concept, which is challenging when trying to apply it in non-design learning and teaching contexts: notably, for this study, innovation management. The aim of this study has two aspects: first, a conceptual one, to articulate what ‘design thinking’ means in context of a design-driven approach to innovation management; and second, a more practical one, to consider how it could …
Design Values, Designing Values And Valuing Designing: Three Scenarios For Values In Design Education,
2013
Lancaster University
Design Values, Designing Values And Valuing Designing: Three Scenarios For Values In Design Education, Gabriel Hernández
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This paper discusses the importance and role of values in design education. As design scenarios constantly change, so do values pertaining to design. Design education should be ahead of those changes, however the theoretical development of design has not given values the same importance as other issues. This paper presents a theoretical framework to help understand the role of values in current design learning. It provides a general comprehension of how values affect both designing and design outcomes, thus aiming to offer arguments that strengthen the awareness and importance of ethical and moral issues in design education.
Supporting Art And Design Student Transition Into Higher Education,
2013
The Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Supporting Art And Design Student Transition Into Higher Education, Julie Haslam, W. Rod Cullen
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In 2007 the UK National Audit Office reported retention levels as an important factor in measuring university success. It also reported institutional variations in withdrawal themes concluding that some differences were likely to relate to how well individual institutions were helping students to deal with the challenges of study in HE. As a great deal of research has found retention to be related to student satisfaction, and this in turn to be primarily dependent upon student preparedness and their expectations many institutions have focused on enhancing this area of the student experience. This paper raises awareness of the predominant role …
Aligning Assessment, Feedback And Action Planning For International Students,
2013
Loughborough University
Aligning Assessment, Feedback And Action Planning For International Students, Robert Harland
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What language should feature in assessment criteria for international students? How do students reflect on assessment feedback to allow the creation of effective action plans for future learning? Have universities adjusted their assessment methods sufficiently to match the increased demand for studying abroad? What can art and design contribute to these issues? These are some of the questions this paper seeks to address by reporting on recent pedagogic research at the School of the Arts, Loughborough University, in the United Kingdom. Language use is at the heart of this, and yet, it has been overlooked as an essential tool that …
The Psychological Effects Of Perceived Scarcity On Consumers’ Buying Behavior,
2013
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Psychological Effects Of Perceived Scarcity On Consumers’ Buying Behavior, Shipra Gupta
College of Business: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This research seeks to provide an understanding of consumers’ psychological responses to the scarcity environments that are strategically created by retailers. A mixed method design provides both qualitative and statistical understanding of this phenomenon. The findings across four studies define a new construct that captures consumers’ understanding of the product shortage that is strategically created by the retailer, differentiates it from scarcity situations where the retailer does not necessary limit the supply of the product, and suggests that consumers react differently in the varied conditions. The study suggests that strategically controlled environments, by creating product uncertainty, are able to motivate …
Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education,
2013
Nottingham Trent University
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 …
Transformation And Consequences: Do Change And Divergence In The Premises Of Bachelor Of Design Educations In Norway Today Reveal A Need Of A General Plan For Design Educations?,
2013
Buskerud University College
Transformation And Consequences: Do Change And Divergence In The Premises Of Bachelor Of Design Educations In Norway Today Reveal A Need Of A General Plan For Design Educations?, Målfrid Irene Hagen
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This paper presents a small pilot study on Bachelor of Design educations which initiates a larger research on some problems within design educations and consequences of changes and school reforms in Norway during the last decades. Design programs of study are popular and the number of schools which offer these programs in Norway has increased since the 1990s. However, the premises for what a design study program should include as well as criteria for getting entrance to higher design educations have changed. This is particularly the case with newly established design educations at several University Colleges. While some study programs …
About The Design Research Society,
2013
CUMULUS
About The Design Research Society, Christian Guellerin
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When asked on numerous occasions to comment on design and design research, I’ve always been very careful, if not harsh, with regards to certain research projects whose content and/or approach seemed to fall short on the front of the relevant things in design. My reaction hit even closer to home in France where design is absent from academic disciplines, and design research has yet to really take off. I have to admit, nonetheless, that the strides undertaken by several universities abroad and continued by DRS have swayed me into believing that there really is an area that craves further learning …
Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice,
2013
Indiana University
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,
2013
Indiana University
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, …
Materials Selection: From Technical To Emotional Material Properties,
2013
Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona
Materials Selection: From Technical To Emotional Material Properties, Maria González, Javier Peña
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Materials now have the ability to transform energy, to adapt to the environment and to mimic effects only previously possible for nature. They change their properties with external stimuli and provide different perceptions depending on environmental conditions. This dynamism then converts the materials into pure mechanism, pure machine, pure image and pure feeling. The relationship of the person who works with the material, engineers, designers, etc. is no longer so direct. This connection based on experience, on a physical and perceptive knowledge of the materials is today mainly abstract. This fact hinders material selection, as it focuses on the technical …
Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study,
2013
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study, Marília Matos Gonçalves, Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez
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According to the National Survey of Students' Performance (Enade), held every three years by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, the Design course of University of Santa Catarina is now rated as second best in Brazil. The course objective is to provide facilities for the training of professionals able to operate in dynamic environments and diverse, capable of intervening in society to the criteria of innovation, environmental responsibility and entrepreneurship, offers students the mastery of techniques, methods and specific tools project. Currently the UFSC Design course works with a curriculum structure divided into three main nuclei divided as follows: Introductory, Project …
Developing (Architectural) Design Knowledge: A Learner-Researcher Study,
2013
University of Technology, Sydney
Developing (Architectural) Design Knowledge: A Learner-Researcher Study, Tanja Golja, Lynette Schaverien
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While design researchers use diverse approaches to study designing, non-designers face specific impediments in adopting these research approaches in their quest to gain design knowledge. Recognizing such challenges, this paper outlines how one education academic engineered a first-person methodology to investigate the nature of designing. Through undertaking a learner-researcher study in an undergraduate architectural design basics subject, learning about design through learning to design, she tracked her developing design ideas and crystallized a view of architectural designing as a three-phase heuristic for value selection: imagining possibilities, interpreting ideas to form architectural principles and distilling quality. Her subsequent small-scale test of …
What Is Industrial Design? Providing A Guide For University Applicants,
2013
Coventry University
What Is Industrial Design? Providing A Guide For University Applicants, Michael Goatman, Louise Moody
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There are currently a wide range of Higher Education Industrial Design courses available in the UK. In the present era, a wider breadth of narrative has developed within the subject, and as a result the content of industrial design educational offerings varies considerably. The paper assesses the industry view of Industrial Design as a discipline from the perspective of those employing university graduates. These views illustrate a change in the discipline, and this is considered in respect to current education practice. The choice of entry courses for the student wishing to embark on a career in the subject has also …
Cross-Cultural Design Attitude: Open-Ended Design Solution For Welcoming The Diversity,
2013
Politecnico di Milano
Cross-Cultural Design Attitude: Open-Ended Design Solution For Welcoming The Diversity, Elena Enrica Giunta, Agnese Rebaglio
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Italy draws lots of refugees from the Mediterranean regions: in 2010, Milan received more then 850 people in its welcomely Centres. Municipalities, citizens but also professionals must be involved in the collective answer to such a kind of phenomenon. The ephemeral nature of the settlement in the Centres, the precarious conditions of staying, as well as the variety of tenants’ identities (multi-ethnical and gender turns) shape a new research field of great, social, importance which challenges the designer to imagine new strategies and tactics for collective living. These reasons convinced a multi-disciplinary group (designers, social workers and environmental psychologists) to …
From Tutor-Led To Student-Led Design Education: The Global Studio,
2013
Northumbria University
From Tutor-Led To Student-Led Design Education: The Global Studio, Aysar Ghassan, Erik Bohemia
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“Tutor-led” design education has been argued to be a system where lecturers are at the centre of teaching & learning activities and where educators’ tastes strongly influence students’ outcomes. Design education has also been argued not to prepare graduates for working in highly complex professional capacities synonymous with the contemporary era. We argue the role of tutors in tutor-led design education to be a factor in this. The Global Studio runs Web 2.0 enabled industry sponsored international collaborations between students. One aim is to introduce learners to “complex project situations” and consequently to prepare them for contemporary working life. It …
Social Network As A Tool To Develop Personas For User Research: An Exercise From Design Education,
2013
Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Product Design
Social Network As A Tool To Develop Personas For User Research: An Exercise From Design Education, Koray Gelmez, Humanur Bagli
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This study focuses on a brand new type of user research as a part of a design project conducted in 2012 Summer School Project Studio in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. Students are required to get information from an open Facebook profile by concentrating on its demographics (age, gender, and nationality), descriptive attributes, mottos, likes, dislikes, hates, beliefs, activities, work attitudes, holiday attitudes, socializations and favourite objects etc. They are expected to propose some keywords and concepts to describe the persona after learning from the Facebook profile. By depending on these keywords, they …
The Role Of Identity Development In Design Problem-Based Learning: Essential Challenges In Sustainable Design Learning,
2013
Loughborough University
The Role Of Identity Development In Design Problem-Based Learning: Essential Challenges In Sustainable Design Learning, David W. Garrett, Tracy Bhamra
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This study focuses on challenges students face in learning through problem-based activities, in UK higher education in design for sustainability. Social theories of learning indicate the highly significant but possibly problematic nature of such social contexts for learning, a view underlined by psychological perspectives on potentially significant aspects of the learning process. In particular, the relevant development of identity is considered to play a centrally important role in learning, including in building expertise in tackling complex design problems. A key aspect of identity theory concerns the properties of self-evaluation during meaningful activities, and this suggests an important emphasis in examining …
