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The University Hacks The Museum: Learning In The Wild, Jennie Schaeffer, Mia Sas
The University Hacks The Museum: Learning In The Wild, Jennie Schaeffer, Mia Sas
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This study explores the collaboration between a museum and a university, which has lasted for over a decade. By integrating design students into the process of critically assessing and hacking exhibitions, the museum and the university has created a dynamic environment where new stories, unseen props, and innovative interactions are introduced to existing exhibitions. The partnership involves diverse expertise from educators, researchers, young adults, visitors and museum staff. The collaboration emphasizes hands-on participation, allowing students to engage with real-world exhibition practices as hackers of the permanent exhibitions. The aim of the study is to describe the working methods and to …
Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia
Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia
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The critical framework of education through Design-based practices emphasizes hands-on, experiential learning and its role in expanding STEAM education models. This approach leverages enabling technologies, such as digital fabrication tools, to provide transformative educational experiences that address societal challenges. This contribution explores how Design-based educational practices can serve as tools for social empowerment in marginalized communities, specifically examining the integration of STEAM methodologies with digital fabrication technologies to address educational poverty and foster social inclusion. The study discusses a case study focused on eight workshops in Ostia Ponente, where collaboration between universities, local authorities, and social organizations sought to combat …
Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez
Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez
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Knowledge in design studios is mostly constructed via discussions, dialogues or in a systematic way, critiques. Thus, understanding design critiques is crucial for evaluating and improving design studio courses, and thus learning and teaching experiences. This paper introduces two visual tools that can assist in categorising design critiques in terms of their flow, content and style. The first tool visualises the intensity and distribution of different critique categories to make the topics and ways to generate critiques explicit. The latter illustrates the correlations between content and style in critiques and reveals the potential relationships between them. These tools aim to; …
Exploring Cultural Frames And The Visual Language Of Rituals, Amrita Datta, Amy Fortunato
Exploring Cultural Frames And The Visual Language Of Rituals, Amrita Datta, Amy Fortunato
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In Visual Communication Design, significant emphasis on intercultural communication has aided the development of intercultural competence. This case study investigates how design education can develop cross-cultural awareness by focusing on how cultural frames evolve through experiences and societal perception while becoming increasingly layered and complex. To fully extricate oneself from one's cultural context is challenging, but raising awareness of its limitations and subtleties is achievable. Recognizing diverse cultural frames can broaden one's perspective, leading to a more nuanced understanding of both the articulation and consumption of messaging in visual communication. Two educators located in different socio-political contexts in the United …
Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel
Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel
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This conversation is an interview between three professors from a university located in a large cosmopolitan city in Canada. The interview to understand the motivation behind the similar approaches of two of the professors. During the conversation, the professors explore the complexity and opportunities for curricula innovation when teaching design in a very diverse context. They explore how themes of pluriversality, multiculturalism, identities, resilience, and how complicated intersectionality and the local context intertwine and have impacted their curricula, and how these themes can inform the design classes. The professors’ focus in the conversation is on pedagogical strategies, specifically, how they …
When Methods Create Space: A Conversation On Intertwining Disciplines, Cultures And Communities In Design Education, Niki Wallace, Laura Knight
When Methods Create Space: A Conversation On Intertwining Disciplines, Cultures And Communities In Design Education, Niki Wallace, Laura Knight
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The nature of design education is changing and must continue to change in response to increasing complexity and uncertainty. This paper presents a conversation between two UK-based design educators who explore how these contemporary societal challenges are being tackled in two interdisciplinary Masters courses aimed at relational and complexity-led approaches to design. The conversation reveals the importance for complex and collaborative practices to embrace relational, visual, reflexive and flexible modalities. This in turn highlights the need for teaching to evolve beyond fixed design processes in order to develop flexible practitioners with the critical capacities for navigating uncertain futures.
Move Slow Or Fail Fast? Enhancing Stem Design Education With Ai-Assisted Iterative Workflows, Yingying Sun
Move Slow Or Fail Fast? Enhancing Stem Design Education With Ai-Assisted Iterative Workflows, Yingying Sun
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The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into industrial design education offers transformative potential, particularly within the interdisciplinary context of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs. This paper explores how AI-assisted, hypothesis-driven approaches can address cross-disciplinary challenges and enhance the iterative design process in STEM-related design projects. Using a controlled comparative study, we investigate the efficiency and interdisciplinary knowledge integration enabled by AI tools such as Large Language Models (LLMs). Our findings reveal that AI not only accelerates workflows by automating routine tasks but also fosters deeper exploration of technical and contextual knowledge. Participants leveraging AI demonstrated greater productivity, producing …
From Awareness To Action: Embracing Sustainability Topics – An Interview Study About Sustainability Topics With Graphic Design Stakeholders, Fengjin Yu
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Graphic design has the potential to integrate the topic of sustainability due to its interdisciplinary and systemic nature. However, few studies have explored the current situation of sustainability topics within the graphic design field. Through semi-structured interviews, this study explores the current state of sustainability topics in graphic design within Higher Education (HE) settings to explore the possibilities of graphic design on sustainability. This study involved 16 HE graphic design stakeholders in the UK. Findings highlighted the dilemmas and challenges stakeholders encounter when teaching, practising and researching sustainability topics, and identified potential solutions to address these dilemmas. Results show that …
Artificial Intelligence In Future Art And Design Education, Tore Andre Ringvold, Ingri Strand, Peter Haakonsen, Kari Saasen Strand
Artificial Intelligence In Future Art And Design Education, Tore Andre Ringvold, Ingri Strand, Peter Haakonsen, Kari Saasen Strand
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What future challenges and opportunities might AI bring to art and design education, and how can the educational system best be prepared? In a changing society, rapid technological developments can change the need for competences. An example of rapidly evolving technology is artificial intelligence, here limited to text-to-image generation. This is technology where you can write a text to generate an image in a digital system that is trained by large amounts of image and text combinations. Towards an unknown future with constantly new technological innovations, we should have an open but critical look at the opportunities and challenges that …
Design Thinking Pedagogy In A Culture Of Information Immediacy, Ahu Yolac, Philip Plowright
Design Thinking Pedagogy In A Culture Of Information Immediacy, Ahu Yolac, Philip Plowright
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This paper investigates design thinking pedagogy within the context of information immediacy, analysing student work from the Design Principles studio, an interdisciplinary introductory course for first-year students enrolled in five professional design programs. The course emphasizes foundational design thinking skills, including divergent and convergent thinking, abstraction, coherence, cohesiveness, and the hierarchical organization of project information. Through qualitative analysis of student projects, we identify three distinct patterns of engagement: procedural application, emerging integration, and flexible, critical workflow. These patterns reveal how students navigate and internalize design thinking tactics in an era of abundant information and digital tools. We discuss the pedagogical …
Connectedness In Design Learning Experience – A Qualitative Study Using Nvivo Analysis, Christy Gogu
Connectedness In Design Learning Experience – A Qualitative Study Using Nvivo Analysis, Christy Gogu
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Design being a collaborative field, often requires designers to engage with people from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to bring a concept from sketch to product or service. Social connectedness has been reported to help in this collaboration within and between teams. A design learning environment that promotes perceived social connectedness can aid future designers to cultivate greater collaboration and empathy that is essential for a user-centred approach to designing. This research was conducted to study the role of social connectedness in learning experience from the design educators’, students’ as well as practicing designers’ perspectives. Qualitative data collection was done with 35 semi-structured …
Learning Memories Unlocked: Capturing Design Graduates’ Reflections Through Evocative Objects, Miray Hamarat Dundar, Koray Gelmez
Learning Memories Unlocked: Capturing Design Graduates’ Reflections Through Evocative Objects, Miray Hamarat Dundar, Koray Gelmez
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Memories and evocative objects play a significant role in establishing enduring connections with past experiences. They serve as powerful reminders of our personal histories, enabling us to revisit crucial moments and maintain a lasting bond with our past. From this perspective, this study aims to provide reflections on the learning memories of industrial design graduates. Specifically, the research question addressed in this paper is: How do industrial design graduates recall and articulate their memories about their university education? To investigate this question, a warm-up and reflective session were conducted with a group of industrial design graduates, who were former classmates. …
Now We Know: Findings From A Critical Pedagogy Experiment On The Nature Of Codesign Knowledge, Azadeh Jalali, Lucia Londoño Davalos, Frederick Van Amstel
Now We Know: Findings From A Critical Pedagogy Experiment On The Nature Of Codesign Knowledge, Azadeh Jalali, Lucia Londoño Davalos, Frederick Van Amstel
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When learning codesign, design students often find themselves in the anxious position of not knowing whether they know codesign. Codesign' emphasis on shared knowledge and facilitation stands in contrast to the individual knowledge and mastery cultivated by expert design, with which students are more familiar. Critical pedagogy, an emergent approach in design education that emphasizes developing critical consciousness of the contradictions behind design, is a promising candidate for learning the shared nature of codesign knowledge. To verify this possibility, this research conducted a critical pedagogy experiment with graduate design students in the United States supported by the Blind Side gamestorming …
Designing The World Precedes Designing The Word: The Paulo Freire Method Applied To Typography Education, Hiền L.D. Phan, Azadeh Jalali, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel
Designing The World Precedes Designing The Word: The Paulo Freire Method Applied To Typography Education, Hiền L.D. Phan, Azadeh Jalali, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel
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This paper describes a critical pedagogy design experiment in typography education in a public university in the United States of America. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s claim that reading the world precedes reading the word, typography was reframed in this experiment as a designing of the world through designing the word. To design words this way, graphic design students need first to re-read the designs of their worlds, have something to say about that, and then critically embed their (designed) word into their (designed) world. This experiment builds upon the critical design pedagogy program set forth by the Design & Oppression …
How To Sketch Things With Words?, Suleyman Enes Himaki, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Elif Sen Himaki
How To Sketch Things With Words?, Suleyman Enes Himaki, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Elif Sen Himaki
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This study investigates the relationship between verbal and visual modes of thinking among novice design students, focusing on their mutual influences and exchanges. Conducted within an undergraduate course, Design Communication II, the study engaged eleven students in a series of exercises and workshops over a fourteen-week period designed to facilitate transitions between verbal and visual thinking. The research aimed to explore the effects of incorporating verbal exercises into a drawing course, understand how students respond to a curriculum that equally emphasizes verbal and visual activities, and assess the impact of verbal discussions on visual communication methods. Using participant observation as …
Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design Through Place-Based Learning, Azeem Hamid, Umar Hameed
Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design Through Place-Based Learning, Azeem Hamid, Umar Hameed
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In this paper we examine the transformative potential of place-based design education through a collaborative, cross-cultural project involving first-year design students from the Pakistan Institute of Fashion & Design (PIFD) and Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore, in partnership with the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) in Uganda. Utilizing a critical place-based pedagogical methodology, the project aimed to foster creative problem-solving, and cross-cultural collaboration through experiential and outdoor learning. Over three phases from 2017 to 2019, students participated in multidisciplinary activities that emphasized co-design and participatory practices within real-world contexts. Findings from the project indicate significant enhancement in students' abilities to navigate …
Scale Up: Enabling Definitional Discussion In Graphic Design Using A Visual Analogue Scale (Vas), Alis Iacob, Meherunisa Baig
Scale Up: Enabling Definitional Discussion In Graphic Design Using A Visual Analogue Scale (Vas), Alis Iacob, Meherunisa Baig
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This letter aims to highlight some of the definitional challenges in graphic design research. The authors suggest using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), a psychometric tool traditionally employed in psychology, as a prompt for facilitating discussions around the definition of graphic design. By anchoring the scale's endpoints with the divisive concepts of "form" and "function," the proposal seeks to contextualise these diverse opinions within the historical and current complexities involved in defining graphic design. According to the literature, ambiguous viewpoints often emerge from the nature of the discipline and its evolving practices, perspectives which are frequently influenced by socio-cultural, political, …
Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara
Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara
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This paper discusses the results and content of letters written by students, as the final assignment in a design theory class. The proposal involved using correspondence as a method of reflection. The aim was to explore the pedagogical potential of letter writing to foster reflective learning in design, as well as to examine epistolary writing as an activity that promotes analytical thinking and a deeper understanding of design as both a practice and a discipline. Students were challenged to compose letters addressed to someone (living or deceased), something, or somewhere – in the past, present, or even the future – …
Algorithmic-Narrative Machine. Micro-History Of A Dialogic-Constructionist Design Lab, Francesco Monterosso
Algorithmic-Narrative Machine. Micro-History Of A Dialogic-Constructionist Design Lab, Francesco Monterosso
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This contribution explores the interplay between design culture and constructionist pedagogy, highlighting how practices based on making, tinkering, and learning by doing can foster creative, collaborative, reflective, and critical learning in increasingly interconnected educational contexts. Following in the footsteps of the work and research carried out by Papert, Stager, and other scholars, it emphasizes the necessity of an inclusive, transdisciplinary approach in line with the challenges posed by the future of design education. After a brief theoretical overview—citing “designerly ways of knowing” and underscoring the importance of a dialogic, project-based epistemology—the paper presents an educational-design experience developed within the Inter/Abit/Azione …
Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl
Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl
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The interactive, art-based workshop concept Creating Landscapes was piloted twice in November 2024. The workshop invites participants to critically engage with questions of sustainability and materiality through hands-on interaction with discarded objects, addressing the complexity of planetary and societal resources and life in a concrete way. The workshop starts from how we interact with material artefacts and how to create new landscapes and see things differently. Following the initial implementations, we – the designers and facilitators – collected participant feedback to inform future iterations. This case study provides a description of the workshop idea, its implementation process, and preliminary insights, …
Integrated Design For Museums And Marginal Areas: Exhibit, Graphic And Interaction Design, Lucilla Calogero, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Gabriele Toneguzzi
Integrated Design For Museums And Marginal Areas: Exhibit, Graphic And Interaction Design, Lucilla Calogero, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Gabriele Toneguzzi
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The case study delves into the practices and methodologies employed within CarniaMusei, a network of about 40 small museums located in a mountainous area of 1200 km² in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy. The project aims to intertwine design education with cultural heritage preservation in a marginalized territory. The contribution illustrates how exhibition design, visual communication and interaction design are combined to create dynamic, multifunctional spaces that serve as cultural, social, and educational hubs. By involving local stakeholders, students, and educators in participatory processes, the outcomes promote inclusivity, sustainability, and adaptability – core principles that align with the …
The Flipped Design Classroom: Effectiveness Of Online Lectures, Katja Fleischmann
The Flipped Design Classroom: Effectiveness Of Online Lectures, Katja Fleischmann
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Sustainability-In-Action? Toolkit For Transdisciplinary Design Education, Frederik Kiersgaard Lund, Luke Edward Eric Feast, Linda Nhu Laursen
Sustainability-In-Action? Toolkit For Transdisciplinary Design Education, Frederik Kiersgaard Lund, Luke Edward Eric Feast, Linda Nhu Laursen
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Writing In Design Pedagogy: Challenges And Best Practices, Sana Khan Hussaini
Writing In Design Pedagogy: Challenges And Best Practices, Sana Khan Hussaini
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Activating The Community Living Archive: Collaborative Place-Based Visual Storytelling For Social Justice, Ellen Christensen
Activating The Community Living Archive: Collaborative Place-Based Visual Storytelling For Social Justice, Ellen Christensen
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Embracing Change While Dancing Around Syllabi: A Case Study Of A Design Studies Strand In Swedish Higher Education, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen
Embracing Change While Dancing Around Syllabi: A Case Study Of A Design Studies Strand In Swedish Higher Education, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen
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The Futti Krutti Festival - Teaching Experiences For Social Innovation, Aleksandra Zamarajeva Fischer, Vera Pahle, Lise Amy Hansen
The Futti Krutti Festival - Teaching Experiences For Social Innovation, Aleksandra Zamarajeva Fischer, Vera Pahle, Lise Amy Hansen
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Learn X Design 2023 Editorial, Derek Jones, Violeta Clemente, James Corazzo, Nicole Lotz, Liv Merete Nielsen, Noel Lesley-Ann, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi
Learn X Design 2023 Editorial, Derek Jones, Violeta Clemente, James Corazzo, Nicole Lotz, Liv Merete Nielsen, Noel Lesley-Ann, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi
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The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Learn X Design 2023, was convened as a call for papers and publication of proceedings. This allowed an extended review and development period for authors to develop submissions. The process ran from January to December 2023. A 135-member international scientific panel undertook double-blind peer reviews, and the Academic Committee, comprising the seven members of the Design Research Society EdSIG Convening Group, monitored reviews and carried out additional reviews where needed. 236 authors affiliated to institutions in 31 countries, contributed 106 submissions. Submission types included research papers, case studies, conversations, and visual papers. …
Educating Designers For The New Era: Current Challenges, Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Lore Brosens, Davy Parmentier, Deniz Hasırcı, Marina Emmanouil
Educating Designers For The New Era: Current Challenges, Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Lore Brosens, Davy Parmentier, Deniz Hasırcı, Marina Emmanouil
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Mātauranga Moana: Uplifting Māori And Pacific Values Of Conceptualisation Over Western Co-Design Constructs, Sonya Withers, Georgina Stokes
Mātauranga Moana: Uplifting Māori And Pacific Values Of Conceptualisation Over Western Co-Design Constructs, Sonya Withers, Georgina Stokes
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