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Code^Shift Newsletter Fall 2025, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Manaswini Pillai Oct 2025

Code^Shift Newsletter Fall 2025, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Manaswini Pillai

CODE^SHIFT Research

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Colonial Christianity: The Language Of Evangelization Through The Levanto 1766 Joyful Mysteries Of The Rosary Poems, Lillian E. Chan , '26 Oct 2025

Colonial Christianity: The Language Of Evangelization Through The Levanto 1766 Joyful Mysteries Of The Rosary Poems, Lillian E. Chan , '26

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

This thesis presents a translation from Colonial Valley Zapotec to English of the five poems based on the biblical Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary found in the 1766 Christian catechism attributed to Dominican friar Leonardo Levanto. I analyze the construction of the linguistic strategies revealed by the translation (periphrasis, semantic bifurcation, neologisms, calques, and metaphors) as well as examine the extent to which these constructions were poetic innovations versus drawing on already-established language. Together, the translation and analysis of the Levanto (1766) Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary poems illustrate how language was used as a tool for evangelization in colonial …

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Precipitated By The Pandemic: From Remote Witnessing To Electronic Wills, Edward Ti, Hang Wu Tang Oct 2025

Precipitated By The Pandemic: From Remote Witnessing To Electronic Wills, Edward Ti, Hang Wu Tang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the rigidity of will-making laws requiring in-person witnessing. Jurisdictions responded differently: some introduced temporary measures, others implemented permanent reforms allowing remote witnessing. This article compares responses in England and Wales, selected Australian states, Singapore, and Hong Kong SAR, tracing developments toward potential recognition of electronic wills. The central argument is that law reform should balance accessibility with safeguards against fraud and undue influence, avoiding overly burdensome formalities that deter compliance. The article concludes by examining how national digital identity systems could be used for the execution of electronic wills.

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Bridging The Rural Telehealth Divide, Deborah Farringer Oct 2025

Bridging The Rural Telehealth Divide, Deborah Farringer

Law Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the historical development, regulatory landscape, and post-pandemic future of telehealth in the United States, with a particular focus on its original purpose: improving access to care for rural populations. Although Congress first authorized Medicare reimbursement for telehealth in 1997 to alleviate rural health disparities, federal and state regulatory frameworks—especially restrictions on originating sites, licensure rules, and HIPAA-driven technology requirements—significantly limited adoption for more than two decades. The COVID-19 public health emergency triggered sweeping temporary waivers that removed geographic limitations, permitted the use of common communication technologies, liberalized supervision and prescribing rules, and allowed audio-only encounters. These changes …

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Fcad: Feature-Coupled Anisotropic Diffusion For Continuous Graph Learning, Amitoz Azad, Zhiyuan Zhang Oct 2025

Fcad: Feature-Coupled Anisotropic Diffusion For Continuous Graph Learning, Amitoz Azad, Zhiyuan Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this work, we propose a novel continuous graph neural network called FCAD (Feature-Coupled Anisotropic Diffusion) for the task of node classification on graphs. Our approach is motivated by the success of feature-coupled anisotropic diffusion PDEs in multivalued image restoration. Our method introduces a total variation regularization-inspired anisotropic term to control diffusion between nodes and incorporates a learnable parameterization for feature coupling during the diffusion process. Our model performs competitively against several GNN baselines for both heterophilous and homophilous graphs, demonstrating notable benefits for heterophilous graphs due to the learnable feature coupling.

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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Of Visual Representation In English Language Textbooks At The Elementary Level: A Social Semiotic Perspective, Amina Bashir, Aamir Aziz, Muhammad Imran, Norah Almusharraf Sep 2025

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Of Visual Representation In English Language Textbooks At The Elementary Level: A Social Semiotic Perspective, Amina Bashir, Aamir Aziz, Muhammad Imran, Norah Almusharraf

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Textbooks serve as a significant and comprehensive resource for language learners. This study focuses on a Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Visual Representations found in English Language Textbooks, employing a Visual Social Semiotic Perspective. Utilizing the framework established by Kress & van Leeuwen (2020), which comprises Representational, Interactional, and Compositional modes, this research investigates the multimodal elements present within these textbooks to assess their role in enhancing comprehension through visuals. Adopting a qualitative descriptive methodology, the study analyzes a purposively selected sample of 158 images from elementary school textbooks. The findings reveal a disproportionate representation of males compared to females across …

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Com 312-029: Effective Communication, Josh Tobiessen Sep 2025

Com 312-029: Effective Communication, Josh Tobiessen

Humanities Syllabi

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Com 353-101: Applied Visual Communication, Chris Funkhouser Sep 2025

Com 353-101: Applied Visual Communication, Chris Funkhouser

Humanities Syllabi

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Integrating Artificial Intelligence & Purpose-Driven Design Within Spiritual, Wellness, Eco-Conscious, & Cultural Brands, Jessica Molina Sep 2025

Integrating Artificial Intelligence & Purpose-Driven Design Within Spiritual, Wellness, Eco-Conscious, & Cultural Brands, Jessica Molina

Masters Theses

This visual thesis explores the practical and ethical applications of artificial intelligence in the work of designers for brands that promote wellness, spirituality, eco-consciousness, and cultural identity. The central challenge in adopting AI will be balancing the capitalization on its benefits with assessing the ethical ramifications of its adoption, while still upholding brand values, the imperative of authenticity, emotional intelligence, and integrity. As the technology and capabilities of AI continue to skyrocket, purpose-driven designers will remain under-resourced and underdeveloped in frameworks for ethical adoption. This work seeks to resolve the existing gap through a literature review, case studies, and a …

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Screening And Analysis Of Lactic Acid Bacteria With Anti- Helicobacter Pylori Activity, Wei Zicheng, Fan Liuping, Li Jinwei Sep 2025

Screening And Analysis Of Lactic Acid Bacteria With Anti- Helicobacter Pylori Activity, Wei Zicheng, Fan Liuping, Li Jinwei

Food and Machinery

Food packaging layout design, as the core element of visual communication, directly affects consumers' purchasing decisions. Based on the works receiving international design awards on food packaging, such as Pentawards, Dieline Award, Red Dot, and iF, fr

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Research On A Cross-Modal Correspondence : How Food Packaging Size Affects Consumers' Psychological Expectations, Tang Cong Sep 2025

Research On A Cross-Modal Correspondence : How Food Packaging Size Affects Consumers' Psychological Expectations, Tang Cong

Food and Machinery

[Objective] To investigate whether the visual cue of packaging size affects consumers' perception of product flavor and purchase intention, as well as the product's attractiveness to consumers. [Methods] An independent sample t-test with two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to verify the significant interaction between packaging size and food type. [Results] Small packaging food products are significantly better than large packaging food products in taste perception intensity, attractiveness, and purchase intention. In addition, there is a significant interaction between packaging size and food type. [Conclusion] Packaging size is a visual variable that can significantly influence consumers' psychological expectations. Small …

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Innovative Trends In Food Packaging Layout Design Based On Case Analysis Of International Awards, Zhang Yanjie Sep 2025

Innovative Trends In Food Packaging Layout Design Based On Case Analysis Of International Awards, Zhang Yanjie

Food and Machinery

Food packaging layout design, as the core element of visual communication, directly affects consumers' purchasing decisions. Based on the works receiving international design awards on food packaging, such as Pentawards, Dieline Award, Red Dot, and iF, from 2020 to 2025, the trend of food packaging layout design mainly included the following aspects:layout structure from stable grid to dynamic balance, visual hierarchy emphasizing information denoising, font application emphasizing functionality and culture, and color strategy combining naturalism and digitization. By deeply analyzing the driving forces behind the aforementioned trends and extracting their design implications, a design methodology that combined theoretical support and …

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Illustrations For A Scientific Review Article Publication : Human Stem Cell-Derived Organoids, Sunghwan Bae Sep 2025

Illustrations For A Scientific Review Article Publication : Human Stem Cell-Derived Organoids, Sunghwan Bae

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This thesis explores the role of scientific illustration in improving the comprehension of complex scientific concepts. It traces the historical development of illustrations in scientific literature and examines their functions in both research and review articles. The central contribution of this work is the development of twelve vector-based illustrations that elucidate the applications of human organoids within a review article context. These visuals transform intricate ideas into clear, engaging representations, supported by extensive research and verification to maintain scientific accuracy. The thesis concludes by addressing the future of scientific illustration, advocating for reader-oriented design approaches and the use of innovative …

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The University Hacks The Museum: Learning In The Wild, Jennie Schaeffer, Mia Sas Sep 2025

The University Hacks The Museum: Learning In The Wild, Jennie Schaeffer, Mia Sas

Learn X Design Conference Series

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 …

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Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia Sep 2025

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 …

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Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

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; …

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Exploring Cultural Frames And The Visual Language Of Rituals, Amrita Datta, Amy Fortunato Sep 2025

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 …

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Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel Sep 2025

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 …

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When Methods Create Space: A Conversation On Intertwining Disciplines, Cultures And Communities In Design Education, Niki Wallace, Laura Knight Sep 2025

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.

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Move Slow Or Fail Fast? Enhancing Stem Design Education With Ai-Assisted Iterative Workflows, Yingying Sun Sep 2025

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 …

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From Awareness To Action: Embracing Sustainability Topics – An Interview Study About Sustainability Topics With Graphic Design Stakeholders, Fengjin Yu Sep 2025

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 …

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Artificial Intelligence In Future Art And Design Education, Tore Andre Ringvold, Ingri Strand, Peter Haakonsen, Kari Saasen Strand Sep 2025

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 …

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Design Thinking Pedagogy In A Culture Of Information Immediacy, Ahu Yolac, Philip Plowright Sep 2025

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 …

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Connectedness In Design Learning Experience – A Qualitative Study Using Nvivo Analysis, Christy Gogu Sep 2025

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 …

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Learning Memories Unlocked: Capturing Design Graduates’ Reflections Through Evocative Objects, Miray Hamarat Dundar, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

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. …

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Now We Know: Findings From A Critical Pedagogy Experiment On The Nature Of Codesign Knowledge, Azadeh Jalali, Lucia Londoño Davalos, Frederick Van Amstel Sep 2025

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 …

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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 Sep 2025

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 …

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How To Sketch Things With Words?, Suleyman Enes Himaki, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Elif Sen Himaki Sep 2025

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 …

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Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design Through Place-Based Learning, Azeem Hamid, Umar Hameed Sep 2025

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 …

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Scale Up: Enabling Definitional Discussion In Graphic Design Using A Visual Analogue Scale (Vas), Alis Iacob, Meherunisa Baig Sep 2025

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, …

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