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Teaching Design Project In Sight Of Design Partnership: A New-Old Way To Teach Design, Flavia Nizia Ribeiro, Roberta Portas, Maria Apparecida Mamede-Neves, Izabel Oliveira, Rita Couto

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This work intends to deepen the discussion on Design Partnership. To build this argument we propose a reflection that will be introduced by a bibliographic revision followed by a presentation of different Design concepts. In a second moment, we examine the concept of Design Partnership, and analyze how it occurred in the undergraduated Design programme. The Design Partnership experience is a model of teaching, used in the project disciplines also offered in the first year of the course, the student, a future designer, have to work with a partner in a defined context, and to work with a real problem. …

Relating Creativity, Fantasy, Invention And Imagination: Studying Collective Models Of Creative Collaboration From Kindergarten To University Degrees, Raffaella Perrone

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In recent years, cognitive psychology has supplied interesting analytical frameworks for the processes involved in the construction of knowledge at all levels of education, from kindergarten to college. In design teaching and for many decades theories have been proposed about design projects "methods" and "methodologies". However, only in recent years theoretical approaches to "creativity" and the creative process have been proposed and have started to be implemented in academic curricula, or as working methods (cocreation). Creativity, thus, has become an area of "focus" of research, with important implications on the design discipline. However, creativity, invention, imagination and fantasy simultaneously interact …

Visualising Ideas: A Camera Is Not Enough, Liv Merete Nielsen

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When photography was widely introduced as a tool for documentation, the art of mimetic drawing was challenged as a main activity in art education. This raised the question: Why bother with mimetic drawing in art classes when any object, person or event can be documented with a camera? The question of mimesis in painting and drawing existed long before the introduction of cameras, and it raised philosophical questions in relation to the ideals of pictorial representations. This paper problematises some issues that have constructed a counterproductive contradiction when it comes to training mimetic drawing in general art and design education. …

Design Learning For Tomorrow – Design Education From Kindergarten To Phd, Liv Merete Nielsen

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The 2nd international conference for design education researchers in Oslo May 14– 17, 2013 on the theme of ‘Design learning for tomorrow – Design education from Kindergarten to PhD’ received an overwhelming response. This is gratifying for us, the organisers, as we see design in a broad interdisciplinary perspective in support for a better tomorrow. For years we have promoted the idea that sustainable design solutions should include more than ‘professional’ designers; they should also include a general public as ‘conscious’ consumers and decision makers with responsibility for quality and longevity, as opposed to a “throw-away” society.

City Reflections: Design Collaborations For Cross-Cultural Learning, Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt, Denielle Emans

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Design educators must learn to develop and lead successful intercultural projects and exchanges for students entering into a globally connected and diverse profession. Teaching students to approach problems by using collaborative and interpersonal skills provides them with durable assets to better understand international audiences, colleagues, and perspectives. The proliferation and integration of first-hand cross-cultural experiences into design curricula can result in innovation and knowledge sharing, indicating synergistic properties in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This research explores how collaborations between geographically separate design students in San Francisco, California, USA and Dubai, UAE—mediated by virtual …

Juvenile Book Cover Illustration, Lisa Marie Brown, Robert Barrett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The book market has long been the fine art gallery of illustrators. Portraits, landscapes, and characters set in beautiful historical and modern scenes are only a few of the genres that illustrators have explored through the medium of the book cover. Book illustration has a long visual history that has inspired readers for many generations. The flourishing tradition of children’s book illustration began with such artists as Howard Pyle and N.C.Wyeth whose timeless covers for classics, painted in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, are still printed today. This rich heritage gives illustrators a firm foundation from which to build …

Eng 3001-005, Jad Smith

Fall 2013

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Design Knowledge From Practice(S), Helen Mcallister

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The main premise of this paper is to centralize the experiential mode as a fundamental to Design Research whether by practice–based or by practice-led knowledge. This paper will map the process of different ‘knowings’ of practice, how they manifest themselves into critical knowledge for Design. Through this researcher’s engagement with the experiential, came an understanding that could not otherwise have surfaced without the practice–based inquiry and methodologies. ‘Practice’ is a central imperative of Design, yet the nature of these activities we call ‘practices’ is never the less complex in its critical edification and defining how it contributes and shapes ‘culture …

Creativity In The Subject Art And Crafts: The Weak Link Between Learning And Assessment, Eva Lutnæs

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This paper explores the assessment of creativity in the Norwegian school subject Art and Crafts. Creativity, or its sibling, originality is frequently used as an assessment criterion in assignments given to pupils at the level of lower secondary education. Written assessment criteria contribute to the public face of the subject, revealing core values to pupils, parents, headmasters and politicians. I have studied the assessment repertoire of teachers when negotiating final grades and legitimising their assessment practice in interviews.The teachers struggle to find words to describe what makes pupils’ design creative or original. Creativity seems to be something that just happens …

Witness: An Artist’S Journey Into The Past, Quanuquanei Alfred Karmue

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis as a social documentary, using images to provoke awareness of the emotions of children, their lives during the 15-year old Civil War that was in Liberia, West Africa. This thesis will visually explore different timelines, the past, the present and the future of children depicted. In depicting the past, the images capturing specific moment of what a child had to witness during the war. In depicting the present images showcase the aftermath of the war for children who have survived, and finally, for the future, images showcasing how the lives of some of the children have changed because …

Design Thinkers Can Save The World: How Understanding Their Interests, Goals, And Motivations Can Inform Engineering Educators, Jacqualyn Blizzard

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The need for more engineers equipped with new skill sets is essential for ensuring our national security, climate sustainability, and maintaining our position as a global leader in innovation and as an economic world power. The design challenges engineers face increasingly require a human-centered, creative, practical, and systems-based approach to find the most elegant solutions; i.e. they require design thinkers. According to Tim Brown of IDEO, the characteristics that distinguish design thinkers include: 'empathy--they imagine the world from multiple perspectives, integrative thinking--they can analyze at a detailed and holistic level to develop novel solutions, optimism--they don't back down from challenging …

Redesigning A Performance Practice: Synergising Woodwind Improvisation With Bespoke Software Technology., Seán Mac Erlaine

Doctoral

This research examines how the designing of a new performance practice based on the incorporation of custom digital signal processing software impacts on solo improvised woodwind performance. Through the development of bespoke software, I investigate how these new technologies can be integrated into solo woodwind performance practice. This research presents a new improvised music practice as well as a suite of new software tools and performance techniques. Through a workshop and performance-­‐based research process, a suite of software processors are developed which respond, and are complementary, to a personalised style of improvised performance. This electronic augmentation of the woodwind instrument …

Diurnal And Nocturnal Avian Antipredator Behavior In Thermally Challenging Conditions, Jennie M. Carr

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Diurnal avian antipredator behavior has been the focus of much past research, yet the influence of the thermal environment on such behaviors is often overlooked. Far less is known about nocturnal avian antipredator behavior, including how these behaviors are influenced by challenging thermal environments. The first portion of my research focused on how the thermal environment influences the diurnal antipredator behavior of wintering birds while (i) exposed to high wind speeds, (ii) foraging in sunlit and shaded microhabitats, and (iii) when using thermoregulatory postures to conserve body heat. In addition to increasing convective heat loss, high wind speeds increase the …

Locative Expressions In Signed Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison, Sarah E. Eberle

Theses and Dissertations

The primary focus of this paper is to examine whether sign languages organize their locative expressions similarly to spoken languages. Paving the way in the study of spatial relations by focusing on the structuring of ON and IN locatives in spoken languages, Bowerman and colleagues (Bowerman 1980; Melissa Bowerman & Eric Pederson 1992a; Bowerman 1993; 1994; 1996a; 1996b; Bowerman & Levinson 2001) found that spoken languages organize the locative phrases representing the relationships of ON and IN in a continuum which is called the ON-IN continuum.

This thesis shows that sign languages do not linguistically pattern similarly to spoken languages …

The Unheard Needs Of The Deaf In Ecuador, Natalie Delgado

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, at least 90% of deaf people in developing countries are not receiving any education (Hauland & Allen, 2011). Very little research has been done on deaf education in Ecuador specifically. Although some deaf children in Ecuador are receiving an education, their education is impeded by insufficient communication access, lack of government awareness about best practices, and a shortage of teachers with deaf-specific work experience and training. This project provides an analysis of Ecuador’s disabled citizens in general and deaf and hard-of-hearing people in particular, as a context for a focus on education …

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 …

From Long-Distance To No Distance: Performance-Based Long-Distance Education In Art And Design, Bo Gao

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This paper is to introduce an enhanced teaching and learning experience, which brings people in different location to act in the same spectacle, a real-time building together rather than only verbal communications in front of the screen. The “e(ating) meeting – Project of the VISIT 2012” is a teaching project undertaken in the year 2010~2013, and is a cross-cultural long-distance learning and collaboration experiments between two international universities. The objectives of this collaborative project are to develop and experiment new teaching approaches and tools through an intercultural and interactive platform in art and design. This paper unfolds the process and …

Teaching The Design Of Narrative Visualization: Using Metaphor For Financial Literacy And Decision Making, Aaron Fry, Jennifer Wilson, Carol Overby

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The authors provide a scholarly definition for metaphor-rich, story-driven “narrative visualization,” and assert the importance of this methodology in contemporary design education. They propose “narrative visualization” as especially useful in promoting financial literacy: a context in which design can both facilitate understanding and possibly influence behavior. This emotionally-engaging means has the potential to affect the “System 1” intuitive decision-making processes that Kahneman and others have identified as the primary drivers of financial behavior.The case study here presents a recent design course that was customized to teach “narrative visualization” in a financial-literacy context. Student work from that course is examined through …

Hooked On Peers’ Drawings: Learning Through The Visual Wildfire, Nina Scott Frisch

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Children’s drawing activity has been theorized as traces of cognitive and biological development, with cultural variations as minor sources of visual and traceable influence. Even though present, less research has been done on documenting the social aspect of drawing; seeing drawing as visual communication between children. This aspect of drawing development, or learning, is visually traceable, but is still often neglected because children´s drawings can be seen in light of a discourse emphasizing the individual solitude and expression of the professional artist. Collection of drawings, observations and interviews took place in one elementary school art room for one academic year …

Social Networking As A Mentoring And Engagement Tool Between Design Alumni And Early Design Students, Lisa Fontaine

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In graphic design education, there is an increased need to integrate design thinking, with less focus on the designed ‘object’ and more focus on its message. Realities of the contemporary profession mandate the development of broad thinking skills; students need to begin viewing themselves as problem-solvers first, imagemakers second. The Alumni Mentor Initiative was devised to introduce beginning graphic design students to design thinking as it manifests itself in practice. Using the LinkedIn website, 80 alumni from the university’s graphic design program were identified and asked to participate in an online mentoring program. Each was matched with one beginning student, …

Design As A Second Language. Design As A Multicultural-Multidisciplinary Space Of Integration: Challenges And Advantages Of Introducing Design To Non-Design Students, In A Second Language, In A New Cultural Context, Carlos A. Fiorentino, Andrew Van Der Ree, Lyubava Fartushenko

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Teaching design to design-illiterate students is usually a common case for every first year class instructor at any design program. In addition to this, a particular combination of extra challenges makes Design Fundamentals at -the University of Alberta- a very special spot to learn and teach design. Most sections of this class are open to students from many other fields and levels, from psychology to engineering, and from first year students to senior students. Masters students, who usually come from various countries, are often appointed as teaching assistants as part of the graduate program experience. Some of them choose to …

A Digital Learning Experience In Tertiary Design Education, Kerry Meakin, Neville Knott

Conference Papers

This paper documents the results of a study of trialing an innovative teaching method to first year students while studying for a BA in Visual Merchandising and Display in an Institute of Technology in Dublin. Due to lower staff levels it was perceived this student cohort were not attaining the practical skills necessary in their future careers therefore it was hoped that an innovative method of delivering practical tuition would be beneficial to students and lecturers from both learning and teaching perspectives. An Action Research approach was taken, which took the form of trialing a digital artefact, compiled by one …

Branded: The Sister Arts Of Rhetoric And Design, Susanna Kelly Engbers

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As a professor of rhetoric at an art and design college in the United States, I am keenly interested in philosophies of design education and their relationships to philosophies of rhetorical education. Clearly teachers of rhetoric and of design have much to learn from one another, yet we rarely interact. One way in which design and rhetoric should be informing one another is through the related concepts of branding, familiar to designers; and ethos, well-known to rhetoricians. I know from faculty colleagues in design how important branding is in design curricula. Students learn the value, as Richard Buchanan puts it, …

Down The Rabbit Hole: A Situated Approach To Design Education That Facilitates Socially Responsible Emergent Designers, Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek, Katrina Sandbach

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This paper is centred on the progressive curriculum and sustained positive impact of the Rabbit Hole – the University of Western Sydney's Bachelor of Design teaching studio. The award-winning Rabbit Hole is a unique learning environment, incorporating participatory design methods and a work integrated learning framework that facilitates situated learning experiences, where live projects with realworld outcomes bridge the gap between academia, community and industry. Through a series of case studies, this paper demonstrates how the Rabbit Hole utilises the transformative agency of its innovative design pedagogy to inspire and empower socially responsible emergent designers.

3 Contiguous Experiments On A Design Historical Case, Pia Pedersen

Nordes Conference Series

This paper contributes to the field of practicebased research and includes insights from research through design, both research perspectives that apply methods and processes from design practice as basis for knowledge generation. The objective of the paper is to introduce a design historical case and demonstrate that it can inform and produce relevant knowledge to practice-based research and research through design. It is the assumption that – by forming the basis for making an epistemic artefact – a design historical case can construct knowledge on how to transform statistics into visualisations. It is also the assumption that the combination of …

Enstasy: Immersive Drawing As A Design Process, Welby Ings

Nordes Conference Series

This paper considers the means by which the short film Munted (Ings 2011) was drawn into being. It discusses drawing and interior dwelling as enstasic methodological practices. In so doing, it suggests that such approaches to the design of filmic narratives might enable the designer to reach into ideation and outwards into the communicative appearance of the text.

Invisible Man: Literature And The Body In Design Practice, Tarryn Handcock

Nordes Conference Series

As a culturally produced text, literature is seen as a lens with the potential to draw attention to the values, ideas, and beliefs that underlie a society. In this paper three key themes in H.G. Wells’ novel The Invisible Man (1897), are discussed: firstly, the ways that the body may be fashioned through dress and individual practices; secondly, how wearable artefacts may socialize bodies and symbolically communicate; and thirdly, how the fashioned body may challenge personal and cultural boundaries. Collectively, these issues draw attention to the relational network of body, culture, and dress. These relationships are highly relevant to design …

Lines & Models. Embodied Drawing Acts, Judith Marlen Dobler

Nordes Conference Series

Lines & Models is a ongoing series of analogue, digital and hybrid drawing experiments. The project explores tacit approaches to sketching and drawing by experiments using the body as a drawing tool. In the research project, theory and practice are closely linked. The experiments serve as drawing artifacts and as material for reflections in design research. In this context, the project evolved into an investigation about the involvement of the body while drawing and sketching, and how the knowledge gained can be visualized.

How Experimenting With Networks And The Data They Generate Can Create Layered Semantic And Visual Communication Design?, Miglena Minkova, Maria Martin Carrasco

Nordes Conference Series

This paper will look into whether experimenting with networked processes and input in the production of graphic design can challenge the formal relationships between everyone involved in the creative process, stimulate dynamic readings and interactions and make use of contemporary information chaos. Considering economy, social structure and modern technology, parallels will be drawn between theory and practical examples. This will help to better illustrate the mechanics and creative use of the network and the data it produces, while setting up a broader research context for design practitioners to reflect on.

Introducing Nordes 2013, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson

Nordes Conference Series

Welcome to Nordes 2013 the 5th biannual Nordes conference; welcome to Malmö and Copenhagen! Since its establishment in 2005, the Nordic design research conference, Nordes, has established itself as perhaps the most impor- tant scholarly event in the field in the Nordic countries, and over the years, Nordes has attracted still more participants from the rest of the world. The ambition of the Nordes design research conference is to develop into an inter- national conference of the highest academic standards with close reference to design practice as well as to the more traditional research approaches to design; a conference which …