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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 …


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, …


Bridging Silos: The Impact Of An Interdisciplinary Learning Community, Fabio Tellez, Richard Elaver Sep 2025

Bridging Silos: The Impact Of An Interdisciplinary Learning Community, Fabio Tellez, Richard Elaver

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This paper presents a reflective case study of DigiFab, an interdisciplinary faculty learning community at Appalachian State University (North Carolina, USA), which explores the integration of digital design and fabrication into teaching, research, and creative endeavors. From 2019 to 2024, sixteen faculty and staff from diverse disciplines participated in monthly meetings that featured hands-on demonstrations, reflective discussions, and collaborative projects, including a collective exhibition. Data were collected through participant observation and a survey, and were analyzed using thematic analysis. Five key impacts emerged: teaching methods evolved as members transitioned from observation to AI integration; research and creative work expanded through …


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 …


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. …


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 …


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 …


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 …


Questioning The Intersection Of Design Thinking, Public Policy And Circular Economy: A Visual Critique, Joana Alves Dos Santos, Violeta Clemente, Paulo Silva Sep 2025

Questioning The Intersection Of Design Thinking, Public Policy And Circular Economy: A Visual Critique, Joana Alves Dos Santos, Violeta Clemente, Paulo Silva

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Through a fragmented and interrogative visual critique, this submission critically examines the intersection of Design Thinking (DT) and Circular Economy (CE) governance in policymaking. It stems from the authors’ engagement with both academic literature and practical experiences in design facilitation and participatory governance, particularly within Portuguese contexts. The work responds to recurring narratives observed in these domains, and uses visual argumentation to unpack their underlying assumptions. It argues that while both DT and CE are widely promoted as tools for systemic change and participation, their application often inadvertently reinforces existing hierarchies and limits genuine community engagement, rather than fostering equitable …


Discoverability, Availability, Circularity: An Upcycling Design Workshop, Virginie Tessier Sep 2025

Discoverability, Availability, Circularity: An Upcycling Design Workshop, Virginie Tessier

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Collective efforts to encourage the climate transition raises essential questions regarding industrial design practices. On that matter, the design process, based on the creation of goods using new resources, is questioned. Design needs to adapt and question its practices with the global desire to reduce the use of new energy, material, and resources. This paper explores the integration of upcycling and circular design in a workshop as part of the training of industrial designers. Based on the principle of “form follows availability”, the initiative stands out as complementary to traditional design workshop projects. The workshop is presented in detail with …


Learning By Teaching Blended International Design Workshops, Daniel Buzzo, Kristina Andersen, António Gorgel, Jonathan Chacón Pérez, Martin Knobel, Lara Piccolo, Pras Gunasekera Sep 2025

Learning By Teaching Blended International Design Workshops, Daniel Buzzo, Kristina Andersen, António Gorgel, Jonathan Chacón Pérez, Martin Knobel, Lara Piccolo, Pras Gunasekera

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This paper draws upon the experience of designing events to provide design students with a multicultural and inspirational learning environment for exchanging knowledge and collectively build new skills. To this end, it reports on the planning, structure and subsequent delivery of an EU Erasmus+ workshop funded “Blended Intensive Program (BIP)” in a collaboration between four Design programs from four EU countries. Four professors and more than 20 undergraduate students participated, assisted by administrative staff from each of the institute’s international offices, collaborating through a blended online and in-person format. Together, the students brought both similar and different perspectives on design …


Reaffirming Learning – A Micro Examination Of Teaching Interventions And Their Connectedness, Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan Sep 2025

Reaffirming Learning – A Micro Examination Of Teaching Interventions And Their Connectedness, Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan

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This case study provides a perspective on engaging postgraduate design students in activities exploring eco-social responsibility in relation to their creative practice. It zooms into the roles and learning impacts of a collaborative online space and series of online discussion sessions, which are situated within wider research trialling a system of teaching interventions that positively disrupt the curriculum, as a mechanism for awakening learning around responsible design. It offers insights and reflection on the teaching and learning system, mapping the interconnectivity of its components whilst synthesising discoveries regarding the roles they play in building connections, reaffirming learning and navigating uncertainty.


Prompting Reflective Learning Through Card-Based Approaches, Jesper Legaard, Safia Suhaimi, Jo Ward, Andrew Walters Sep 2025

Prompting Reflective Learning Through Card-Based Approaches, Jesper Legaard, Safia Suhaimi, Jo Ward, Andrew Walters

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This study explores how two different card-based approaches, Cards of Doom and CO:RE cards, complement or inspire each other when applied outside their originally intended contexts. C.O.D is designed for design students while CO:RE targeted non-design professionals. Both tools offer semi-structured approaches to facilitate collaborative discussion among participants, fostering reflective capacity within creative-oriented contexts. An analysis of multiple card-play sessions of C.O.D and CO:RE in both their original and alternate contexts revealed three important themes; tension, psychological safety, and dialogic interaction, prompting reflective learning in the participants. The study contributes to the broader discourse on playful learning in design education, …


Designing With Communities For Humanity-Centered Design: Advancing Sustainability Knowledge And Practices In Industrial Design Education, Yoon Jung Choi, Jiayuan Dong, Brook Kennedy Sep 2025

Designing With Communities For Humanity-Centered Design: Advancing Sustainability Knowledge And Practices In Industrial Design Education, Yoon Jung Choi, Jiayuan Dong, Brook Kennedy

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Participatory design with community engagement has demonstrated significant potential for addressing the complexities of environmental governance and fostering interconnected systems to accelerate the circular economy. This highlights the need for a paradigm shift in design education, transitioning from traditional human-centered methodologies to a broader humanity-centered approach. This paper examines insights gained by Industrial Design students at Virginia Tech through a collaboration with local stakeholders in Floyd aimed at promoting sustainability. The project focused on reducing wasteful behaviors associated with end-of-life products by developing design and service solutions to minimize landfill disposal through participatory design processes. Students proposed twenty-seven design concepts …


A Gamified Approach To Teaching Circular Economy In Fashion Design, Maiara Daltoe, Sara Gancho Sep 2025

A Gamified Approach To Teaching Circular Economy In Fashion Design, Maiara Daltoe, Sara Gancho

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This research introduces an innovative sustainable design management methodology and its gamified educational tool aimed at raising awareness about sustainability and circular economy among fashion design students. The study is grounded in evidence showing that up to 80% of a garment's environmental impact is determined during the design phase, underscoring the designer's strategic role in creating sustainable products. The methodology is structured into six strategic stages: problem identification, research and analysis, idea generation and selection, consumer verification, and end-of-life cycle planning. To facilitate practical implementation, the game "The Traveling Pair of Jeans" was developed and applied to 82 fashion design …


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 …


Transforming Education: Add-On Workshops As A Tool To Integrate Ethical Responsibility In Design Education, Elisabeth Friesinger, Stephan Krusche Sep 2025

Transforming Education: Add-On Workshops As A Tool To Integrate Ethical Responsibility In Design Education, Elisabeth Friesinger, Stephan Krusche

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Design education plays a critical role in shaping sustainable societal and environmental futures, making ethical responsibility essential. This paper examines the integration of short, flexible workshops into courses to intertwining ethics and sustainability across diverse educational contexts. Implemented at three German Universities of Applied Sciences, the workshops aimed to raise awareness and encourage students to engage with ethical challenges in their design practice. A mixed-methods evaluation, combining post-workshop surveys and facilitator observations, found that the workshops appear to increase students' awareness and understanding of their responsibilities as designers. Key success factors included an informal, interactive format and adaptability to educational …


Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Lessons In Interaction Design Courses, Joshua Pridemore, Molly Briggs, Abigail Chen, Laura Chiaramonte, Rachael Dietkus, Fengzhou Shao, Ben Tairy, Fan Xia, Yiqi Xiao, Amanda Yates Sep 2025

Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Lessons In Interaction Design Courses, Joshua Pridemore, Molly Briggs, Abigail Chen, Laura Chiaramonte, Rachael Dietkus, Fengzhou Shao, Ben Tairy, Fan Xia, Yiqi Xiao, Amanda Yates

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This case study explores the transformative potential of cross-disciplinary approaches in teaching interaction design for social impact. By integrating insights from diverse fields such as trauma-informed design, interactive dance, media theory, and environmental storytelling, the course challenges students to think beyond traditional design practices. Students were encouraged to create projects that not only demonstrated technical and creative expertise but also engaged deeply with emotional, societal, and ethical dimensions of design. The course culminated in a public exhibition where students showcased interactive installations addressing real-world issues, including online safety, animal testing, environmental awareness, and technology addiction. Through a combination of theoretical …


Teaching The Ethical Responsibility As A Foundation For Designers, Juan De La Rosa Sep 2025

Teaching The Ethical Responsibility As A Foundation For Designers, Juan De La Rosa

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Although several authors have urged us over the years in the importance of ethics in the field of design, it is still less than common for design schools to introduce ‘ethics’ as part of the curriculum, beisides the possible conversation of ethical practice that could emerge during studio or workshop classes. This paper explores two experiences including ethics as a main topic of education for designers in two different design schools, and the different results obtained during the process.


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 …


The Fuzzy Edges Of Online Design Studios, Nicole Lotz, Derek Jones, Tina Deiml-Seibt Sep 2025

The Fuzzy Edges Of Online Design Studios, Nicole Lotz, Derek Jones, Tina Deiml-Seibt

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This conversation paper draws upon the professional expertise of three designers of educational online studios. By reflecting on the design, development, and use of two online design studios, Incom and ODS, over the past two decades, the research explores the ‘fuzzy edges’ of studio environments. Studio carries rich peripheral information and ambient awareness, enabling studio users to ‘read the room’. This inherently fuzzy yet crucial process facilitates the formation of impressions that guide and sustain social engagement. While a precise definition of this fuzziness remains elusive, key characteristics can be identified: experiential, visible, performative, incomplete, negotiated, and opportunistic, which are …


Uncertain First Encounters And Dialogues In Design Education, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen, Vibeke Johansen Sjøvoll Sep 2025

Uncertain First Encounters And Dialogues In Design Education, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen, Vibeke Johansen Sjøvoll

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This dialogic paper emerged from the need of a reflective sharing space for our daily pedagogical activities. It delves into moments and interactions with first year design students and attempts to comprehend and reflect upon educational practices. This paper follows fragmental discussions between two scholars, educators, and new colleagues, Angeliki and Vibeke, in the form of digital correspondence, during a hectic autumn semester. Our aim is to decentralize these reflections from our pedagogical skills and toolboxes and to position them within the broader discussion of critical pedagogy and students’ agency to influence the pedagogical activities within their education. Our reflections …


Unfolding Dialogue: Pedagogies Of Reciprocity And Community In Design, Charlotte Falk, Amanda Huynh Sep 2025

Unfolding Dialogue: Pedagogies Of Reciprocity And Community In Design, Charlotte Falk, Amanda Huynh

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How can dialogue between educators reveal the shared labour and supports that sustain responsive design teaching? What role does dialogic exchange play in shaping and improving the relational work of design educators? In response to the calls for conversation and for teaching statements, this paper formalizes an ongoing dialogue between two emerging industrial design educators. Anchored by the theme Intertwinia: Principles and Methods, we explore shared commitments to adaptability, experimentation, and collaboration in design education. Building on exchanges that began when we first co-taught a course—then evolved through informal studio snapshots, late-night text threads, remote critiques, and cross-institutional, transcontinental conversations—this …


Tutor Guidance In Design Studio: Study Of Effects And Challenges, Mithra Zahedi, Virginie Tessier Sep 2025

Tutor Guidance In Design Studio: Study Of Effects And Challenges, Mithra Zahedi, Virginie Tessier

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This paper reports a case study exploring the collaborative design process of students in an industrial design studio during the final year project. The study is on the impact of the tutor’s guidance on students during the first seven weeks of a 15-week project period when framing and ideation of the project were planned. The case study is composed of two projects involving four students and looked into the students’ reflective thinking. The participating students used a research-through-design approach for collecting data. They were asked and guided to document their design activities as their project advanced. They were also asked …


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 …


Sociology Through/With Design: Embedding Social Justice Into Design Pedagogy, Anqi Rong, Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward Sep 2025

Sociology Through/With Design: Embedding Social Justice Into Design Pedagogy, Anqi Rong, Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward

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Today, many design problems involve complex social and political issues; however, design students often struggle to comprehend the intricacies of these challenges and the depth of existing knowledge. Sociology provides foundational principles for understanding and influencing society, including strategies for supporting communities in combating injustice across various domains. Addressing critical, participatory, inclusive, and speculative design by embedding social justice in design pedagogy allows students/designers to better reflect on the ethical and social consequences of perpetuating stereotypes and provides a starting point for addressing social issues that arise from injustice. We propose that there are three main reasons for incorporating social …


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 …


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 …


Spatial-Data Sensemaking: Learning Architecture In The Climate Emergency, Martha Bohm Sep 2025

Spatial-Data Sensemaking: Learning Architecture In The Climate Emergency, Martha Bohm

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Sensemaking is the process of constructing and refining new understandings from the chaos of information surrounding us; during sensemaking cues are extracted from an otherwise overwhelming body of varied information and attended to such that action is possible. Sensemaking is inherent to design praxis, but there are substantial gaps in the literature describing the sensemaking processes which are relevant to design. This paper makes the case that a particular, novel sensemaking praxis, termed spatial-data sensemaking, occurs in architectural design but is heretofore undescribed; this process occurs when constructing an understanding of climate emergency data whilst developing a spatial proposal. This …


Fostering Circular Competencies In Design: From Uncertainty To Agency, Snorre Näsman, Lotte Nerup, Ditte Bangsund, Rasmus Simonsen, Eva Brandt Sep 2025

Fostering Circular Competencies In Design: From Uncertainty To Agency, Snorre Näsman, Lotte Nerup, Ditte Bangsund, Rasmus Simonsen, Eva Brandt

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This paper examines the concept of Intertwinia as a representation of new possibilities and futures in sustainable design, juxtaposing it against the often-misused term of sustainability in the corporate world. Our investigation draws upon Tony Fry’s notion of “sustain-ability” to challenge traditional discourses on sustainability, advocating for a new paradigm that recognises the finite nature of resources and the significance of ethical design interventions. We focus on the pivotal role of design educators in equipping students with the necessary capabilities to affect change in a circular economy. By highlighting the importance of incorporating a circular mindset within design education, we …