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Expand Your Design Space With Energy Harvesting, Johan Pedersen, Vanessa Carpenter

Nordes Conference Series

Today design research explores many new ways of interaction, which often requires energyconsuming technology. This limits the design space available and the purpose of this workshop is to open that space and make interaction possible in new scenarios with the possibilities of energy harvesting used as a tool to design in a new field of automated sustainable devices. Energy harvesting can make seamless and almost invisible interaction design possible.

Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler

Nordes Conference Series

What impact does the act of sketching have on thought processes? How may knowledge through sketching be reflected and lead to new epistemic insights? The workshop addresses these theoretical and methodological questions on the basis of specific drawing experiments. During the workshop the experimental use of sketches as a reflective tool in thinking and design processes is introduced. Experimental sketching is a participatory investigation about how knowledge is gained by drawing and how this process can be methodically, theoretically and practically reflected.

Ageing & Ingenuity: What Is Your Design Story?, Yanki Lee, Sara Hyltén-Cavallius, Virginia Tassinari

Nordes Conference Series

This collective design workshop aims to provoke and test new design approaches towards ageing. We are looking for design stories/narratives that show how design thinking and collaborative working can enable the world to respond differently to the challenges of ageing. Can designers change our inherent ageism through the engagement of older people in the design and delivery of services and products with them? Can we change our current strategies towards ageing, turning its potential challenges into opportunities to engage, empower and improve the lives of the elderly? Together, we aims to build a collective design approach with ingenious older people …

Inspiring And Investigating Imaginative Capability Of Design College Student, Hsiang-Tang Chang, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Tung-I Lin

Learn X Design Conference Series

One’s imaginative capability will influence his/her design idea and final product, therefore the imaginative capability is important to a designer. People always considered that the imaginative capability is natural endowment; however, the authors considered that it could be inspired by the family and school education. The purpose of this research was to find a feasible way to inspire students' imaginative capability, and investigate the relationship between the students' imaginative capability to their family education and school education respectively through a devised experimental teaching. For this purpose, some reasonable influential factors of imaginative capability were selected by references and experts’ suggestions, …

Practices And Attitudes Towards Early User Involvement In Information Symbol Design Process: An Implication For Teaching, Wai Yi, Annie Ng, Kin Wai, Michael Siu, Che Hin, Chetwyn Chan

Practical Social and Industrial Research Symposium

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Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall

Learn X Design Conference Series

The rationale behind mass-industrialization, now normalized, is embodied uncritically in the practice of many new designers. What if the industrial past could be explored and experienced as a foreign territory, providing a vantage point from which to critically evaluate contemporary design practices and define new paths? Young American designers are searching for alternate roles, and ways to design and live. Many experiment with models from elsewhere, places where new futures are growing from useful pre-industrial remnants. America, a country synonymous with industrialization, has no such resources upon which to build new practices, and slowing while creating value through quality is …

Art In The Library: From The Collection Of The Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Art in the Library Catalog

The Thomas G. Carpenter Library’s Art in the Library project began in 2008. Since the project’s inception the collection has grown to more than 100 pieces through the generosity of artists and collectors. Many of the works are by artists from northeast Florida. This is a selection of the pieces that may be found on display throughout the library’s four floors.

Catalog contains work by the following artists: Nofa Dixon, Diane Farris, John Bunker, Mindy Hawkins, Tom Farrell, Anthony Whiting, Louise Freshman Brown, Susanne Schuenke, Susanna Richter-Helman, Tiffany Leach, Jonathan Lux, Marilyn Taylor, Steve Williams, Christie Holechek, Sydney McKenna, Jerry …

Materials Education And Research In Art And Design: A New Role For Libraries (Survey Stats), Mark Pompelia

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries

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Materials Education And Research In Art And Design: A New Role For Libraries (Program Sheet), Mark Pompelia

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries

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Materials Education And Research In Art And Design: A New Role For Libraries (Program Booklet), Mark Pompelia

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries

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Materials Education And Research In Art And Design: A New Role For Libraries (Website), Mark Pompelia

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries

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Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte

Learn X Design Conference Series

Teaching sustainability is not solely a question of providing relevant information; it is foremost about training students to meet the challenges of tomorrow. In design this can mean to shift the focus from material, form and function towards systems, correlation and time – a process supported both by how we teach as well as what we teach. But pedagogy still seems to be treated like a poor cousin to the more important design knowledge. This made us curious about the correlation between pedagogy and teaching design for sustainable change. By applying a study of Eilam and Trop (2011) onto the …

Materials Collection Creation And Administration: A New Role For Libraries (White Paper), Mark Pompelia

Materials Education and Research in Art and Design: A New Role for Libraries

The Problem/Opportunity: To define, identify, and guide design-based materials collections in academic settings and foster community among those with existing collections and/or those considering creating and supporting one.

Contents and topics:

1. What is a materials collection?
2. Why have a materials collection?
3. Acquisition strategies
4. Organizational approaches
5. Programming possibilities
6. Symposium summary
7. Resources

Designing A Creativity Training Plan For Companies, Marita Canina, Elisabetta Coccioni, Laura Anselmi, Stefania Palmieri

Learn X Design Conference Series

It is widely recognized that training in creative techniques enhances competitiveness and efficiency of the company production process. Relying on the idea that creativity is the basis for innovation, to learn and manage creativity techniques becomes strategic to meet a company’s need for innovation. Hollanders and van Cruysen's system of indicators (2009), based on the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), is aimed at quantifying creativity and design, and the role of professional training is key for a company’s success on the market. This paper presents a methodology for drafting a training plan for companies. The methodology counts on two approaches similar …

Summer Art Exhibit: Ground, Mallika Kavadi '15

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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A Case Study On Action Research: Barri Gòtic Barcelona, Xavi Camino, Albert Fuster

Learn X Design Conference Series

The Design Degree program at Elisava Escuela Superior de Diseño e Ingeniería de Barcelona includes tools and mechanisms to focus students on the users, the social context and communication. The idea behind this is that greater density should be sought in the projects and a fabric of relationships should be generated in a social and geographical environment ranging from the most local to the most global. As part of its “Products, context and user” subject, Elisava planned action research during the 2010-11 academic year between a group of graphic design students and the members of the 'Asociación de vecinos del …

Design Education And Non-Eu Students: Shifts In Teaching Practice, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond

Learn X Design Conference Series

The number of UK international HE students has gradually increased over the last decade, in particular the number of non-EU Chinese and Indian students. This influx has resulted in the recognition that exposure to an unfamiliar pedagogical cultural habitus can cause problems, often compounded by language problems. This paper outlines the response of an MA teaching team at Coventry University to misconceptions that a cohort of Chinese and Indian students expressed during a research methods module. This was evidenced by uncertainty as to what they were expected to produce in terms of a research proposal, as the extension of the …

Developing Interactive Learning Environments To Promote Scaffolding And Reflection: A Look At The Digital Process Book For Design Studio Education And Comparisons To K12 Science Education Applications, Lori Brunner Stone, Abigail Lundquist, Stefan Ganchev

Learn X Design Conference Series

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and rationale for the design of the Digital Process Book (DPB) learning tool for design education at the University level and discuss the similarities with applications to learning tools in K12 science education. The DPB is an interactive learning environment that is intended to promote reflection throughout a student’s design process, as well as integrate important scaffolding elements in the system that supplements the traditional inperson contact between a student and an instructor. It is based on tenets of Cognitive Load Theory, which argues that learners are not able to …

Making, Using And Interpreting Design Probes: How Subjective Is Participation?, Cara Broadley, Marianne Mcara

Learn X Design Conference Series

The wealth of participatory methods in human-centred design adheres to the notion of a democratic process and solutions that respond to the experiences and needs of users and stakeholders. However, as human-centred design philosophies permeate the landscape of design education and research, the designer’s role as both an objective facilitator and creative decision-maker suggests their impact upon stages of data collection and analysis. This paper advocates tools and techniques to support design students in initiating user engagement and insight-gathering whilst simultaneously recognising and utilising their own subjective experiences and knowledge. Drawing comparisons between our practice-led masters and PhD research, we …

Hye Yeon Nam - From Disabling To Creative Displacement, Leda Cempellin

School of Design Faculty Publications

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