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The Evolution Of An Urban Design Curriculum In Landscape Architecture And A Community-Based Design Center, Frank Sleegers, John R. Taylor Sep 2025

The Evolution Of An Urban Design Curriculum In Landscape Architecture And A Community-Based Design Center, Frank Sleegers, John R. Taylor

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Urban community-based design centers have multiple potential functions. Ideally, they give voice to previously underrepresented groups in public discussions of urban design and environmental change. When combined with a university design curriculum, they can be training grounds for a new generation of urban designers sensitive to the needs, wants, and desires of local stakeholders. This study describes the co-evolution of an urban design curriculum at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a design center in the nearby city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Four key areas related to community service learning were evaluated through a mixed methods approach including historical analysis, qualitative …

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Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers Sep 2025

Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers

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The article draws from a study of a Gear Up partnership between a predominantly white middle class college and four urban high schools with a majority of low-income students of color. Teacher education candidates participated in community engagement through Gear Up at four urban high schools. The study shows that both college and high school students benefited from the partnership. However, employing internal and anticolonial theoretical lenses reveals the hidden curriculum that the positive results attained from the partnership may serve to buttress the myth of dominant culture’s supremacy.

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Impact Of Service-Learning Courses With A Social Justice Curriculum On The Development Of Social Responsibility Among College Students, Yan Wang Sep 2025

Impact Of Service-Learning Courses With A Social Justice Curriculum On The Development Of Social Responsibility Among College Students, Yan Wang

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In this study, six service-learning courses were studied to examine if a curriculum’s social justice emphasis has a significant impact on college students’ development of different types of social responsibility. The results suggest that service-learning courses with a social justice emphasis had a positive impact on the development of participatory and justice-oriented social responsibility, while service-learning courses without such an emphasis did not have an impact on the development of social responsibility.

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Democracy In Action: The Contribution Of The Debatewatch Project To Civic Participation, Barbara A. Pickering, Leslie A. Rill Sep 2025

Democracy In Action: The Contribution Of The Debatewatch Project To Civic Participation, Barbara A. Pickering, Leslie A. Rill

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Every four years, Americans participate in political talk about the presidential campaigns with co-workers, family, and friends. This communication impacts attitudes toward civic engagement. Using the 2008 presidential election as a focal point, this study seeks to understand the impact of communication among citizens who engaged in political discussions at DebateWatch events. We examine the effect of debate viewing and post-debate discussions on perceptions of political information gained and increased interest in a presidential campaign.

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Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning, Jessica Arends Sep 2025

Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning, Jessica Arends

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This paper aims to identify and present what research perspectives are currently practiced in the field of international service learning (ISL) in higher education. The author gathered articles on ISL from high-profile publications and analyzed the methodological lens from which each study was conducted. Using the knowledge-constitutive framework of Jürgen Habermas, each article was categorized as technical, practical, or critical. The author found that while the majority of studies in the ISL field are conducted from a practical research interest, the articles most commonly cited are technical. This analysis is followed by an exploration as to why research interests are …

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The Application Of Universal Design & Digital Tools In Fashion Education, Richard Herriott, Christel Arnevik Sep 2025

The Application Of Universal Design & Digital Tools In Fashion Education, Richard Herriott, Christel Arnevik

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A user-centred design process is reported in relation to fashion design teaching. Universal Design thinking is allied with the use of digital scanning tools and a suite of user-cented design methods. The area of interest is how this changes the self-understanding of the students and their design process. The results are insights on how user-orientated thinking produce changes in attitudes and work methods for the design students. Also reported are observations on the effects of selective use of in-person volunteers (as models) and virtual design tools. There is discussion of the persona design tool in contrast to in-person design for …

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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

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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 …

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Dynamic Linkage For Understanding Design Knowledge, Sungho Lee Sep 2025

Dynamic Linkage For Understanding Design Knowledge, Sungho Lee

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Understanding Design Knowledge (DK) remains an ongoing debate that encompasses diverse perspectives—from traditional academic theories to various practical methods and processes. The advancement of Design Education is guided by DK, and DK is shaped within Design Activity (DA). However, as socio-cultural problems become increasingly complex, DA has evolved into a more ambiguous and expansive concept. Similarly, the scope and definition of DK remain elusive and difficult to determine. In other words, DK is not a substance that can be easily described or defined, and the concept of DA is too intricate to be fully clarified today. Furthermore, the boundaries of …

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Revisiting The Design Of Industrial Design Studio Space: A Reflective Discussion, Isil Oygur, John Dixon Sep 2025

Revisiting The Design Of Industrial Design Studio Space: A Reflective Discussion, Isil Oygur, John Dixon

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The professional practice of industrial design, as well as the spatial design of classrooms and workplaces, has undergone significant transformations over the years. The same cannot be said for the core learning space of industrial design, the studio. Much design education is built around studio culture, following an adage that students will learn from their peers as much as from instructors. This collaborative learning aspect of industrial design has been challenged as design work has become predominantly digital. While scholars focus on pedagogy to address concerns and advance design education, the significance of physical learning space on teaching and learning …

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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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Ux Design Meets Generative Ai: Posing Questions About Future Implications For Design Education And Practice, Filipe Honorato, Violeta Clemente, Ricardo Sosa Sep 2025

Ux Design Meets Generative Ai: Posing Questions About Future Implications For Design Education And Practice, Filipe Honorato, Violeta Clemente, Ricardo Sosa

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Generative AI is rapidly transforming the creative work landscape and our expectations about everyday products and services. This emerging paradigm shift driven by Generative AI presents both challenges and opportunities for the futures of UX design education and practice. While much of the recent research on Generative AI and human-computer co-creativity has been focused on technology advancements, design research offers valuable potential to anticipate negative impacts, co-envision alternative futures, and steer the development of Generative AI toward more positive design outcomes to individuals and communities. This paper presents a scoping review to identify focus areas, research approaches, and reflexive questions …

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Design Thinking (A Visual Critique), Ricardo Sosa Sep 2025

Design Thinking (A Visual Critique), Ricardo Sosa

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This visual submission presents a provocative visual argument (Blair 2012) that aims to interrogate the mainstream “Design Thinking” approach adopted in a variety of contexts including in an increasing number of design schools. By reducing complex high-order practices and mapping them onto the five-step DT sequence, the paper invites readers to interrogate the value, validity and usefulness of portraying design activity in such terms. What is gained and lost by reducing rich and complex activities as well-defined processes? What may these mappings suggest about how we teach and learn to navigate the rich territories of design? What is occluded in …

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Visioning Transformative Futures In Advertising, Jay Irizawa, Sugandha Gaur, Angela Bains, Lesley-Ann Noel Sep 2025

Visioning Transformative Futures In Advertising, Jay Irizawa, Sugandha Gaur, Angela Bains, Lesley-Ann Noel

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Four professors discuss the complexities of introducing transformational change in a design curriculum upon arriving at a university located in a large cosmopolitan city in Canada. The newest professor leads the conversation to learn what that experience was like and asks how the university-wide curriculum changed, starting with the Advertising program in the Faculty of Design. Themes of intersectionality intertwine with the identities of the speakers, including their lived experiences as immigrants and settlers in an established institutional system of learning. What transpires is a revealing discussion about the complexity of integrating decolonial pedagogy in the classrooms, research, and practice …

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The Impact Of Walking Without Digital Distractions On Design Creativity, Joao Ferreira Sep 2025

The Impact Of Walking Without Digital Distractions On Design Creativity, Joao Ferreira

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This paper aims to understand whether walking without digital distractions can enhance creativity during the ideation process in design education. The study involved ninety-seven third-year undergraduate design students in an experiment examining the relationship between solitude, walking, and ideation. Students were divided into two groups: an experimental group of forty-four students instructed to take walks without mobile phones during the ideation phase of their design process and a control group of fifty-three students who remained in the design studio. Both groups were tasked with generating design solutions for the same brief. Results showed that the experimental group produced ideas with …

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Design Literacy In Undergraduate Education For Non-Design Fields, Derya Yorgancıoğlu, Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Yeşim Çapa Aydın Sep 2025

Design Literacy In Undergraduate Education For Non-Design Fields, Derya Yorgancıoğlu, Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Yeşim Çapa Aydın

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This study dwells on the consideration that design literacy offers a holistic framework for design thinking that fosters the development of 'new literacies' essential for today’s world. Design thinking is increasingly adopted in higher education, particularly in non-design fields. However, design literacy isn't being integrated effectively, which significantly hinders a comprehensive understanding and application of design principles. This study explores how design literacy differs from design thinking and why it's important today. It points to the need to reconsider the dimensions of design thinking, as a well-confirmed concept in the literature. It portrays the findings of a case-study that inquires …

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The Ongoing Evolution Of Design: New Life Forms, Manuela Maier-Hummel Sep 2025

The Ongoing Evolution Of Design: New Life Forms, Manuela Maier-Hummel

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As our world is getting super-complex and human’s influence creates disastrous effects on our planet, it becomes vital to nurture design-specific, future-oriented knowledge and skills to establish a mediating environment. How can an interdisciplinary design curriculum support the evolution of future-oriented and sustainable ecologies encouraging creative collaboration inventing, rethinking, and recreating the world? This research explores a novel bachelor’s programme between multidisciplinary faculties of Computer Science and Design and Art to educate future information technology and design specialists together. It examines the qualities of Design interweaving with Computer Science merging into a next-level design culture. From a design researcher’s point …

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Designing Experiences For Learning: Reimagining Design Education With A Focus On Aiding Learning And Understanding, Stacie Rohrbach Sep 2025

Designing Experiences For Learning: Reimagining Design Education With A Focus On Aiding Learning And Understanding, Stacie Rohrbach

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This paper proposes a pedagogical framework for design education that utilizes learning theories to support students in constructing knowledge, fostering understanding, and applying theory in educational contexts and professional practice. Drawing on a decade of experience teaching a cross-disciplinary course titled Designing Experiences for Learning, the paper examines how structured engagement with learning frameworks enhances students’ ability to design for themselves and their audiences. Through qualitative data collection, including self-assessments, project deliverables, classroom observations, and alumni reflections, the research demonstrates that pedagogy informed by learning theories strengthens students’ theoretical application, collaborative learning, and reflective practice. The paper also explores the …

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Practicing Constructive Feedback During Design Projects, Saadeddine Shehab, Amanda Henderson, Daniel Lewis Sep 2025

Practicing Constructive Feedback During Design Projects, Saadeddine Shehab, Amanda Henderson, Daniel Lewis

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Purposefully embedding feedback tasks in existing higher education courses can be one way to support students in developing feedback literacy. Courses that introduce students to Human-Centered Design (HCD) are optimal for engaging students in providing and receiving constructive feedback. This study explored how students engaged in providing constructive feedback to their peers as they worked on a design challenge in an 8-week introduction to HCD course. Students used a digital platform that allows the instructor to create feedback sessions and prompt students to answer questions or add hashtags that can foster their engagement in constructive feedback. In this course, 11 …

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From Pockets To Peace: A Letter For Designers, Michelle Helman Sep 2025

From Pockets To Peace: A Letter For Designers, Michelle Helman

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This letter for designers presents a focused position on utilizing a design justice framework as an effective method and approach in design education and design research contexts. Through a storytelling method, the letter offers examples of a design justice framework applied in theory and practice within the intertwining disciplines of peace, health, and education. The intended audience is educators, researchers, and practitioners engaged in design practices. The letter is shared as an invitation for readers to reflect on how they might experience design and its impacts, and to consider their approaches for collaborative research, education, and idea-sharing as a means …

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Teaching Materials Experiments In Product Design, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer Sep 2025

Teaching Materials Experiments In Product Design, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer

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Ecological challenges have moved the engagement with materials to the forefront in product design as well as in design education. Apart from the focus on materials experience, increased attention is being placed upon the development of (new) materials in the process of designing. While there is no shortage of diverse approaches and methods for conducting materials experiments, the handling of the knowledge gained in the course does not yet approach scientific standards. The increasingly transdisciplinary context in which designers collaborate with other disciplines generates a growing need to prove the effectiveness and possible impact of the results gained. Thus, product …

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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 The Potential Of Dramatherapy In Designers’ Education, Erik Ciravegna, Glenda Pagnocelli, Elisa Vacondio Sep 2025

Exploring The Potential Of Dramatherapy In Designers’ Education, Erik Ciravegna, Glenda Pagnocelli, Elisa Vacondio

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In recent decades, design has transformed from a craft activity based mainly on manual skills and aesthetics to a strategic discipline that requires a systemic and multidisciplinary vision. Today’s designers need to cultivate soft skills such as creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration alongside traditional technical competencies. Dramatherapy, being an experiential, emotionally expressive, and conscious approach, proves to be a useful tool for acquiring these soft skills. Theatrical games, improvisation, storytelling, and dramatization techniques, such as role-playing and staging metaphors, enable design students to see different perspectives, participate in complex situations, and experience innovative ways of interaction. This contribution offers …

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What Is Missing In The Loop?: Design Graduates' Perspective On Circular Design, Seher Naz Ayhan Arda, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

What Is Missing In The Loop?: Design Graduates' Perspective On Circular Design, Seher Naz Ayhan Arda, Koray Gelmez

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Design for the circular economy has been defined in various ways in the literature. To date, discussions have centered on the roles of designers, design strategies, required knowledge and competencies, and the challenges encountered by design practitioners. Gaining a deeper understanding of circular design is crucial for facilitating the transition to a circular economy and enabling designers to integrate such approaches into their professional practices. Although the circular economy is an emerging field of study in design education, it is difficult to find studies that examine how design graduates conceptualize circular design. Addressing this gap, this study aims to unveil …

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Can Ai Assess Design Students’ Projects? Discussing The Future Of Assessments With A Proof Of Concept, Ali Cankat Alan, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

Can Ai Assess Design Students’ Projects? Discussing The Future Of Assessments With A Proof Of Concept, Ali Cankat Alan, Koray Gelmez

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Particularly in their first year of education, design students face challenges in understanding the assessment processes, as the answers are not simply right or wrong, but instead judged on a spectrum of better and worse. This confusion stems from the tacit nature of design knowledge, which is difficult for tutors to articulate. The open-ended nature of design problems, which allows for multiple correct solutions, augments this issue, leading to confusion among students about their performance. To address this subject, this paper proposes an AI pipeline to support both summative and formative assessment by utilising computer vision to enhance the transparency, …

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From Design Cognition To Human-Ai Co-Creation: Reflections On Design Thinking In Higher Education, Katja Tschimmel Sep 2025

From Design Cognition To Human-Ai Co-Creation: Reflections On Design Thinking In Higher Education, Katja Tschimmel

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Over the past decades, Design Thinking (DT) has become one of the most widely circulated concepts at the intersection of design, innovation, education, and organisational change. Originally rooted in design methodology and in scholarly attempts to understand designers’ cognitive processes, DT has progressively expanded beyond the design discipline, gaining visibility in fields such as management, engineering, entrepreneurship, and public policy. Without a question, this growth has helped design become recognised as a strategic approach to solving challenging issues. At the same time, it has intensified a persistent tension between the popularisation of Design Thinking and the preservation of its academic …

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Empowering Designers In The Digital Age, Erick Heredia Sep 2025

Empowering Designers In The Digital Age, Erick Heredia

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Abstract: Traditional design education often places a strong emphasis on aesthetics, such as form and visual appeal. This focus typically confines designers to working on the external aspects of products, leaving functionality—especially engineering components—to others. Consequently, designers are limited in their ability to fully engage with the increasingly complex products that incorporate new technologies. In response to the advancements of Industry 4.0, it's essential for design education to evolve and blur the lines between aesthetics and functionality. By integrating subjects like electronics, interface design, and embedded systems into the curriculum, designers can gain a comprehensive understanding of their products. This …

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A Study On The Development Of An Educational Board Game For Cultural Heritage Using A Design Thinking Approach, Lung Chieh Chao, Ju-May Wen Sep 2025

A Study On The Development Of An Educational Board Game For Cultural Heritage Using A Design Thinking Approach, Lung Chieh Chao, Ju-May Wen

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This study addresses the pressing challenge of preserving and effectively teaching Indigenous languages and cultures in the context of globalization. Centering on the Paiwan Indigenous culture in Qijia Village, Pingtung County, the research investigates how design thinking can be employed to develop an educational board game that responds to the language learning needs of children. The study adopts the five stages of design thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. Through interviews and observations, the needs of students and teachers are identified, and culturally relevant elements are incorporated into the game design to enhance both language acquisition and cultural awareness. …

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Studio Properties: A Contribution To Knowledge In Design Education, Derek Jones, Elizabeth Boling, James Benedict Brown, James Corazzo, Colin Gray, Nicole Lotz Sep 2025

Studio Properties: A Contribution To Knowledge In Design Education, Derek Jones, Elizabeth Boling, James Benedict Brown, James Corazzo, Colin Gray, Nicole Lotz

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In this paper, we present a critically reflective summary of a five-year collaborative project exploring the pedagogy of the Western design studio and the final output of that work, the book ‘Studio Properties; A Field Guide to Design Education’. We initiated the project in response to the absence of a comprehensive description or definition of the educational studio, which researchers could use to orientate their work, and educators could use to inform their teaching practices. The project concluded by rejecting any explicit description or definition of studio. Continuing that work, we proposed an alternative approach to understanding studio. Rather than …

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Transition Curves: Mapping Pacing And Sequence In Digital Learning, Seulgi Kim, Zach Pino Sep 2025

Transition Curves: Mapping Pacing And Sequence In Digital Learning, Seulgi Kim, Zach Pino

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This paper presents “transition curves,” a framework for analyzing transitions in digital learning environments to support diverse cognitive needs. Transitions—moments of shifting between tasks, contexts, or cognitive states—can significantly impact learning but are often overlooked in digital design, particularly for users with attention, anxiety, memory, and learning differences. Drawing on task switching theory and temporal trajectories, we developed a visualization approach that maps pacing, sequencing, and duration to user experience outcomes. In a workshop with sixteen graduate design students, participants used transition curves to analyze digital learning tools and propose design improvements. The workshop findings show that designers typically see …

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Designing Design Energetics, Bruce Tharp Sep 2025

Designing Design Energetics, Bruce Tharp

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This letter is a call to those interested in the future of design and design education, and open to challenging the dominant materialist/physicalist paradigm. With advancements in quantum science, plasma physics, and wave mechanics, new understandings and models have arisen that offer professional and academic opportunities. Design, especially of physical, three-dimensional artifacts, sees objects as essentially vehicles for valuable subjective experience. What are the implications of acknowledging that all matter is actually congealed energy, and that all people are composed of, surrounded by, and affected by frequencies? How might designers better understand and address positive resonances and negative dissonances within …

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