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Low-Tech Skills In High-Tech Solutions Era: The Cognitive Benefits Of Basic Craft Techniques In Formal Design Education, Gordana Vrencoska
Low-Tech Skills In High-Tech Solutions Era: The Cognitive Benefits Of Basic Craft Techniques In Formal Design Education, Gordana Vrencoska
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The formal design education in the 21st century is confronted with an expanding list of challenges: knowledge availability on the Internet; handicraft vs. computer skills; amateurism; specialist vs. multidisciplinary curriculums; national vs. international agendas, etc. In a multifaceted design education where everything is accessible and the disciplines’ borders are blurred, there is a rising necessity for structured and intelligent design process, to reflect the need for smart and sustainable design solutions in the complex high-tech Era. Equipped with computers and internet resources, students are allowed instant access to infinite repositories of visual material and ready-for-digital-recycling creative solutions. This may accelerate …
Rotational Geometry As A Teaching Tool: Applying The Work Of Giorgio Scarpa, Pino Trogu
Rotational Geometry As A Teaching Tool: Applying The Work Of Giorgio Scarpa, Pino Trogu
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This paper focuses on a teaching unit in drawing for design that uses and applies Giorgio Scarpa’s principles and methods in rotational geometry, as put forth in his book Modelli di Geometria Rotatoria, (Models of rotational geometry, 1978), and tests their validity through the construction of physical models built by the students. These models are derived from the sectioning of regular polyhedra such as the cube. The resulting modules can be re-configured into closed or open “chains” capable of folding back into their original minimal volume. This process has parallels in geometric folding, such as in linkages, origami, and polyhedra …
Music Iconography Used As Video Montage Guide – Conception, Development And Validation Of A Teaching Module In Communication Design, Jose Silva
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The article proposed describes the findings retrieved from the researched carried out in the PHD in Design. The experience, combining sound, video and drawing, had as purpose design a learning experiment on Video montage in the scope of Communication Design. The drawing was used as music translation and provided guidance in conducting different paces in the moving image sequence. The use of drawing enabled the creation of a graphical score used in video montage as well as an implicit method to record the experience. The work can be described as a border line research making contact with distinct areas such …
“Not Two Weeks In A Place Tidying-Up The Paper Drawer” – An Employability Agenda Case Study, Ian James Sharman, Zoe Patterson
“Not Two Weeks In A Place Tidying-Up The Paper Drawer” – An Employability Agenda Case Study, Ian James Sharman, Zoe Patterson
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It seems improbable that a student might graduate from four years of fulltime education with an honours degree and, simultaneously, three years of work experience. Yet this is the premise of the Design Agency Project at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. It celebrates four years within the BA Graphic Design programme so 2012 provides a natural opportunity for reflection, marking the graduation of the first cohort introduced to the project at the commencement of their studies. Annually, the students of the programme’s senior year form several design agencies. They brand and advertise vacancies, for which students in junior …
Design For A City State: An Overview Of Design Education In Singapore, Peer M. Sathikh
Design For A City State: An Overview Of Design Education In Singapore, Peer M. Sathikh
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Singapore, which started its modern life as a trading port under the British rule in 1819, became a sovereign nation in 1965, breaking away from the federation of Malaya just a few years after independence. Since 1965, the leaders of Singapore have transformed Singapore many times, starting from its trading roots, to being a manufacturing centre, to financial centre, to a service economy till its present state as R&D centre for science & technology. This paper presents an overview of the development of design education in Singapore, starting with vocational schools that taught design as a skills, through the polytechnic …
Introducing High School Students To Design And Creative Thinking In A Teaching Lab Environment, Gretchen Caldwell Rinnert, Jillian Coorey
Introducing High School Students To Design And Creative Thinking In A Teaching Lab Environment, Gretchen Caldwell Rinnert, Jillian Coorey
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Many students in the United States have limited exposure to design thinking, formal techniques or creative experimentation. For many, a design education begins in college, as one selects their major. Unfortunately, many high school art programs have been eliminated or dramatically reduced, resulting in students receiving less creative exposure and limiting their design preparation before college. Creative problem solving skills are in demand. Sir Ken Robinson, a recognized leader in the development of creativity and innovation, believes our schools are educating students out of their creativity. He argues that we train students to become good workers instead of creative problem …
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Design Knowledge From Practice(S), Helen Mcallister
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
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 …
Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study, Marília Matos Gonçalves, Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez
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 …
Drawn Threads: Drawing As A Visual Methodology To Enhance Qualitative Studies, Claire Lerpiniere
Drawn Threads: Drawing As A Visual Methodology To Enhance Qualitative Studies, Claire Lerpiniere
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This paper is an analysis of the value that drawing can bring to a formal research methodology. It is based on a series of drawings that were produced to extend and develop a form of qualitative enquiry, an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). This analysis was conducted as part of a study of personal textiles that individuals retain and value beyond their practice use, solely for their sentimental or family historical value, termed, the domestic textile archive. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used for analysing the individual experience of these textiles, and was found to be a methodologically sound, yet flexible and …
From Long-Distance To No Distance: Performance-Based Long-Distance Education In Art And Design, Bo Gao
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
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
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
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
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 …
Branded: The Sister Arts Of Rhetoric And Design, Susanna Kelly Engbers
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
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
3 Contiguous Experiments On A Design Historical Case, Pia Pedersen
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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
Enstasy: Immersive Drawing As A Design Process, Welby Ings
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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
Invisible Man: Literature And The Body In Design Practice, Tarryn Handcock
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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
Lines & Models. Embodied Drawing Acts, Judith Marlen Dobler
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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
How Experimenting With Networks And The Data They Generate Can Create Layered Semantic And Visual Communication Design?, Miglena Minkova, Maria Martin Carrasco
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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
Introducing Nordes 2013, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
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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 …
Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler
Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler
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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.
Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte
Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte
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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 …