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Students’ Knowledge And Perceived Confidence In An Interdisciplinary Experiential-Learning Environment, Adam J. Kuban, Michelle M. O'Malley, Lee J. Florea Sep 2025

Students’ Knowledge And Perceived Confidence In An Interdisciplinary Experiential-Learning Environment, Adam J. Kuban, Michelle M. O'Malley, Lee J. Florea

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Experiential-learning theory suggests that students acquire knowledge through hands-on learning environments, and aspiring journalists need a setting where they can experience science—its process(es) as well as how to report empirical findings. Researchers used pre/post questionnaires, field notebook evaluation, and focus group analysis as methods to assess an interdisciplinary, experiential course that combined science and media undergraduates. Results revealed students valued procedural over fact-based knowledge. Students also indicated increased perceived confidence—even when they answered questions incorrectly.

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Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil Sep 2025

Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

While many K-12 alternative education programs use innovative pedagogy and practice, the students who attend them often remain educationally marginalized. Simultaneously, in higher education, experiential learning courses grounded in the theory of engaged scholarship have frequently cast alternative K-12 students in roles subordinate to those of their college student “helpers.” This paper sets forth a preliminary analysis of a community-university positive youth development model as an asset-based approach promoting mutuality and transformation, in the spirit of Freire’s conscientização.

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Incubating Grassroots Nonprofits: A Service-Learning Approach To Organizational Capacity Building With Communities Of Immigrant And Refugee Background, Nancy Winemiller Basinger, Rosemarie Hunter Sep 2025

Incubating Grassroots Nonprofits: A Service-Learning Approach To Organizational Capacity Building With Communities Of Immigrant And Refugee Background, Nancy Winemiller Basinger, Rosemarie Hunter

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper explains the development of a community-university partnership responding to community-identified needs and toward the goal of creating a nonprofit incubator in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our research draws on several years of partnership work with communities of immigrant and refugee experiences. As groups of immigrant and refugee background settle in new communities, they seek to serve the members of their ethnic community. Leaders emerge and begin to organize groups to meet the specialized community needs they have identified. Increasingly these groups are organized as nonprofits. Emerging micro-nonprofits often struggle to find connections and navigate systems that support organizational …

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Mutual Transformation Through Arts-Based Service Learning With Australian Aboriginal Communities: An Australian Case Study, Anne Power, Dawn Bennett, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Sep 2025

Mutual Transformation Through Arts-Based Service Learning With Australian Aboriginal Communities: An Australian Case Study, Anne Power, Dawn Bennett, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper reports from a national arts-based service-learning project in Australia. Working with pre-service teachers, the paper employs the theoretical framework of sentipensante (sensing/thinking), which has been successfully used in disciplines such as policy, leadership, and communication. Participant stories reveal a network of relations that create understanding of shared existence, and these learning experiences emerge as variously threshold, transformative, and/or troublesome. Findings lend support to the value of flexible, critical service learning approaches, particularly in diverse cultural contexts.

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Academics Meets Action: Community Engagement Motivations, Benefits, And Constraints, Alicia M. Schatteman Sep 2025

Academics Meets Action: Community Engagement Motivations, Benefits, And Constraints, Alicia M. Schatteman

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

In recent years, civic engagement has increased with college students, which has been recognized by the Carnegie Institute and is the focus of this article. One example is the growth in community service and service-learning programs. This study builds on the work of Clary et al. (1996 and 1998) that examined student motivations for participating in community service projects. The purpose of this paper is to determine who participates in a college community service event, what motivates them to participate, what are the constraints, and what are the benefits of participating. Furthermore, this study adds to the literature and uses …

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The Impact Of Community-Based Learning In School Guidance, Ericka J. Fisher, Martha Espinal, Sarah Masterson, Julia Savastano, Kristen Vartanian Sep 2025

The Impact Of Community-Based Learning In School Guidance, Ericka J. Fisher, Martha Espinal, Sarah Masterson, Julia Savastano, Kristen Vartanian

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In this article we explore how higher education partners, in this case a small, Jesuit, liberal arts institution, can partner with local public schools through community-based learning in order to increase counseling-based resources in the public schools. Using the case study of one undergraduate course’s field-based experience component, we examine the initial impact on the undergraduate participants as well as potential contributions to the public school. Given the economic constraints facing American public schools, the lack of sufficient guidance and counseling staff within schools, and the growing need for counseling-based services, the need for community partners to contribute to this …

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Reconsidering The American Dream And U.S. Latino Culture In A College Spanish Service-Learning Course, Zak K. Montgomery, Serena B. Ugoretz, Sarah E. Montgomery, Sarah Vander Zanden, Ashley Jorgensen, Mirsa Rudic Sep 2025

Reconsidering The American Dream And U.S. Latino Culture In A College Spanish Service-Learning Course, Zak K. Montgomery, Serena B. Ugoretz, Sarah E. Montgomery, Sarah Vander Zanden, Ashley Jorgensen, Mirsa Rudic

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study explores how a joint Photovoice project about the American Dream between a U.S. Latino culture course and a multicultural middle school class influenced college students’ perceptions of Latino culture. In addition to outlining the service-learning course design, the study also analyzes the trajectory of the students’ understanding of the American Dream. As a result of the partnership, college students’ American Dreams shifted away from the archetypal personal success narrative toward a more civically- oriented approach.

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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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Book Review - Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections On Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University Gilvin, A., Roberts, G., And Martin, C. (Eds) 2012., Jay Gatrell Sep 2025

Book Review - Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections On Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University Gilvin, A., Roberts, G., And Martin, C. (Eds) 2012., Jay Gatrell

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

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Book Review - Academic Interaction With Social Partners: Investigating The Contribution Of Universities To Economic And Social Development. Cape Town, South Africa: Hsrc. Glenda Kruss, Mariette Visser, And Mogau Aphane (2012)., Charles Norman Sep 2025

Book Review - Academic Interaction With Social Partners: Investigating The Contribution Of Universities To Economic And Social Development. Cape Town, South Africa: Hsrc. Glenda Kruss, Mariette Visser, And Mogau Aphane (2012)., Charles Norman

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

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Community Service In Saudi Arabian Universities: A Comparative Study, Hesham K. Alfares, Muhammad H. Al-Haboubi, Mesfer M. Al-Zahrani Sep 2025

Community Service In Saudi Arabian Universities: A Comparative Study, Hesham K. Alfares, Muhammad H. Al-Haboubi, Mesfer M. Al-Zahrani

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

A comparative analysis is presented of community service activities in Saudi Arabian Universities. The methodology includes literature surveys, benchmarking, questionnaires, and focus group meetings. Community service definitions and activities are surveyed around the world. A benchmarking comparison is made between community service programs in 10 major Saudi universities and 20 top American universities. The current status of community service in Saudi universities is evaluated, and several improvement strategies are proposed.

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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

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

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

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

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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Impact Of Degrees Of Service On Alumni Career Development, Judith Warchal, Ana Ruiz Sep 2025

Impact Of Degrees Of Service On Alumni Career Development, Judith Warchal, Ana Ruiz

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper presents the results of a survey that assessed the long-term impact of varying degrees of service on alumni employment and attitudes toward careers. Alumni with service-learning and other service experiences (SL plus group) felt it was important to work to correct inequalities, to provide a service to others, to make a difference in the community, and agreed that their service, academic, and social experiences affected their career development.

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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

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

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

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

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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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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Addressing Student Anxiety In Design Education: A Call For Reflection And Action, Maura Flores, Sara Reader, Alis Iacob Sep 2025

Addressing Student Anxiety In Design Education: A Call For Reflection And Action, Maura Flores, Sara Reader, Alis Iacob

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Student anxiety in design disciplines in higher education seems to have risen since the Covid-19 pandemic and during rapid technology change. In Brazil and the UK, educators notice students struggle with the uncertainties of iterative creative processes, which can hinder their productivity and increase frustration. Anxiety, while a barrier, can also act as a catalyst for innovation when adequately managed. This letter invites a discussion about how educators can support students by fostering emotional resilience, promoting problem-based learning, and integrating information literacy.

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Outlining The Experience Of A Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements In Design Education, Monja Hirscher Sep 2025

Outlining The Experience Of A Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements In Design Education, Monja Hirscher

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If design is understood in a posthumanist sense as a practice that creates encounters between human and non-human actors, it can be interesting to look at the encounters or entanglements rather than at the things that emerge, as these develop the practitioner in the form of relationships, experiences, and learnings. The text traces the author’s craft-based and process-oriented practice in candy making and observes the situated entanglements that arise in the process, which lead to a proposal of anchor points to reflect on such a practice in educational settings. The individually emerging connections to becoming, bodies, places, times, actors, and …

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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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A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina Sep 2025

A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina

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Planet Earth is experiencing profound and irreversible transformations caused by the ongoing climate crisis. Simultaneously, technological advancements often create a misleading belief that these complex issues can be solved through with simple tech-fixes. However, to address the root causes of unsustainability, a radical shift in mindset is necessary. It is essential to challenge anthropocentric Euromodern narratives based on binary categories (nature-culture, humans-nonhumans), which have historically perpetuated detachment from the environment. Instead, a more relational understanding of reality is needed - one that positions humans and nonhumans within a more-than-human web of life. This shift necessitates the development of new design …

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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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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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