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The Intellectual Diet In Pastoral Spaces Of Activity In Digital Design Education, Andreas Lanig
The Intellectual Diet In Pastoral Spaces Of Activity In Digital Design Education, Andreas Lanig
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During lockdown, students are excluded from the inspiring learning space of the university. Students receive a different "intellectual diet" here than they do in the university. In the studio learning of the traditional face-to-face university, the artistic and cognitive impulses are curated with a design pedagogical concept. This concept contains visual, intellectual and social impulses. This concept did not exist in the previous three semesters - it was left to the respective family and home environment of the students during the lockdown. While this is generally the case for distance learning students, it was exacerbated during the lockdown. Students operate …
Assessing Learning Performance And Using Preference Of Design Thinking Methods In Graduate Interdisciplinary Online Course, Juan Li, Shuo-Fang Liu, Meng-Xun Ho, Zhe Li
Assessing Learning Performance And Using Preference Of Design Thinking Methods In Graduate Interdisciplinary Online Course, Juan Li, Shuo-Fang Liu, Meng-Xun Ho, Zhe Li
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Under the COVID-19 epidemic, faced with the problem of ensuring the quality of teaching online, Design Thinking, as a design teaching and evaluation tool for interdisciplinary collaborative courses, has attracted much attention. The research purpose is to explore the performance and preference of four popular design thinking methods in interdisciplinary online courses. This study took an intensive online course as the case study, which developed curriculum based on Brainstorming, Crazy8, User Journey Mapping and Storyboarding. Quantitative evaluation and Evaluation Grid Method were adopted to compare participants’ performance and preference of these four design thinking methods. The results revealed that, compared …
Interdisciplinary Boundary Experiences: Learning Through Conversations, Laura Ferrarello, Catherine Dormor
Interdisciplinary Boundary Experiences: Learning Through Conversations, Laura Ferrarello, Catherine Dormor
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The complexity of many social systems and organisations together with the challenges the world is facing in terms of climate and health demands imagining new ideas and approaches. Interdisciplinary collaboration offers good examples of strategies and practices better able to cope with this complexity, but they are reliant upon the dynamics within collaborations and good integration of perspectives. This paper considers an example of interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at growing mindsets capable of dialoguing with other disciplines through the boundary learning. Based within the Royal College of Art Master in Research, we stimulated a learning experience that leveraged the cyclical dynamics …
Reform Of Product Design Teaching Based On Bionic Concepts, Meng-Dar Shieh, Hsu-Chan Hsiao, Yu-Ting Hsiao
Reform Of Product Design Teaching Based On Bionic Concepts, Meng-Dar Shieh, Hsu-Chan Hsiao, Yu-Ting Hsiao
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Various innate beauty and wonderful operating modes exist in nature. Identifying creativity from physical features of organisms or biological strategies in nature and applying such new conceptual elements and methods to product development is an increasingly popular approach in contemporary product design. This study used teaching practice verification methods to summarize a set of bionic design methods and product development procedures. Through LAMDA method of lean thinking, this study understood users’ authentic needs of target products and the product value. Then, a Mandala Chart was used explore the biological strategies and forms of bionic targets. Subsequently, the summarized bionic Mandala …
Materiality Of Space And Time In The Virtual Design Studio, Ruth Neubauer, Christoph H. Wecht
Materiality Of Space And Time In The Virtual Design Studio, Ruth Neubauer, Christoph H. Wecht
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Digital structures as well as time can be described as crucial material affordances of the virtual design studio space. We question the notion that digital spaces are inherently immaterial and intangible. We challenge the concept of presence and flexibility in the context of the virtual space, and claim that digital infrastructures can be as materially inflexible as physical worlds. Simultaneously we argue for the potential of understanding virtual spaces beyond binary conceptions of presence/absence. We use concepts of practice and materiality to analyse virtual spaces as distributed spatiotemporal structures that can be designed to afford flexibility. We are interested in …
Tutors’ Perspectives On Npo Collaboration In Industrial Design Education, Zeynep Yalman-Yıldırım, Gülay Hasdoğan
Tutors’ Perspectives On Npo Collaboration In Industrial Design Education, Zeynep Yalman-Yıldırım, Gülay Hasdoğan
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Non-profit organisation (NPO) collaboration in industrial design education enables tutors to bring real-life problems to the design education context. Only in recent years, good practices of NPO collaboration implemented in the studio and elective courses are seen in industrial design education. Within the scope of this paper, 20 tutors from 10 industrial design departments in Turkey who have carried out educational projects in collaboration with over 30 diverse non-profit partners in their undergraduate courses were interviewed. Based on the thematic analysis, this paper explores design problems studied in collaboration with NPOs in the context of industrial design education together with …
Design For Justice Lab: Interdisciplinarity In Times Of Virtual Education, Santiago De Francisco Vela, Laura Guzman-Abello, Santiago Pardo Rodríguez
Design For Justice Lab: Interdisciplinarity In Times Of Virtual Education, Santiago De Francisco Vela, Laura Guzman-Abello, Santiago Pardo Rodríguez
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There is a growing interest in the formation of interdisciplinary competencies focused on issues of access to justice. The Design for Justice Lab is a bet between the Schools of Law, Design, and Engineering of Universidad de los Andes to promote challenge-based learning by articulating knowledge among multiple disciplines. The Lab has had five cohorts, of which two have been in classroom mode, and three have been in virtual mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following document presents the opportunities and challenges of developing interdisciplinary courses with courts, judges, and administrative organizations to improve access to justice in Colombia. …
Cultivate Leadership Contagion: A Speculative Grounded Theory Knowledge For Future Change Agents:, Francesco Galli, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun
Cultivate Leadership Contagion: A Speculative Grounded Theory Knowledge For Future Change Agents:, Francesco Galli, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun
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“Changing paradigma” can be defined as a sudden outbreak in the accepted social norm, a fundamental change in the way of thinking and a change of paradigm. Society and culture are two strongly intertwined realities. Every society is, therefore, the bearer of its own legacy and contagious. Today’s Cultural and Creative Industries’ education market is facing a rapidly mutating academic scenario. The revolutionary change of the society and the increasingly sense of Cultural and disciplinary “contagious” request our universities to rethink their philosophies towards critical and creative education. In what ways is the industry’s uncertain future challenging the traditional pedagogy? …
Nordic Life Design: A Holistic Design Approach And Attitude To Life, Kirsten Bonde Sorensen
Nordic Life Design: A Holistic Design Approach And Attitude To Life, Kirsten Bonde Sorensen
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When discussing future education, we tend to focus discussions on defining future competen-cies on preparing students for an ever-changing labour market with job titles we cannot yet imag-ine. However, we often fail to recognise that our students, for years, have faced an extremely high degree of mental challenges, which indicates a need not only for new initiatives, but for rad-ical transformations in education: initiatives that represent a humanistic and holistic view, com-bining a broad focus on education, including new knowledge, with a clear focus on students' well-being, and vitality. This paper describes Nordic life design, a learning concept rooted in …
Doing Research In Design: Inquiry Of The Key Competences Needed To Integrate Research In Design Practice, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer, Julia Pintsuk-Christof
Doing Research In Design: Inquiry Of The Key Competences Needed To Integrate Research In Design Practice, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer, Julia Pintsuk-Christof
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Over the last decades, design research and design practice have become intertwined in a new way and design study programmes have to react to these changes, providing students with the ability to link their creative practice with scientific research. Design education has to develop solutions for this new demand and support these profound changes of the discipline itself by addressing these issues from the very beginning of design education on, the BA-level. In order to better understand what the problems are when carrying out research in design, this paper aims to contribute to the topic of the integration of research …
Hybrid Spaces Teaching For ‘Chinese Traditional Costume Craft’, Shunhua Luo, Jingrui Yang, Chunhong Fan
Hybrid Spaces Teaching For ‘Chinese Traditional Costume Craft’, Shunhua Luo, Jingrui Yang, Chunhong Fan
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The general teaching mode for practical courses of design education was demonstration teaching by face-to-face and step-by-step. This exploration perhaps could provide a teaching method as a reference for practical courses in other design contents. An improved teaching mode about Chinese traditional costume crafts focusing on hybrid spaces including online teaching platforms, digital technology, and virtual interactive learning was introduced. Lu embroidery as the teaching object was shown in this case study. Online teaching platforms and interactive learning system of crafts based on virtual technology were employed, and students were required to study embroidery knowledge and crafts by self-learning at …
It’S The Cultural Difference That Makes The Difference: International Collaboration In Multidiscipline, Transcultural, Design Pedagogy, Clive Hilton, Muxing Gao, Rong Wei
It’S The Cultural Difference That Makes The Difference: International Collaboration In Multidiscipline, Transcultural, Design Pedagogy, Clive Hilton, Muxing Gao, Rong Wei
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For three years, the Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ), China, and Coventry University (CU), UK, have been collaborating in an annual project that sees multidisciplinary, transcultural groups of undergraduate and postgraduate design students engaging in projects that help prepare them for future employment as culturally aware global designers. Its focus is on an enhanced under-standing of the importance of cultural dimensions, research led collaboration, and the need for em-pathetic, coordinated communication. In these accelerated, Collaborative Online International Learn-ing (COIL) projects, the students self-direct their actions to rapidly break down initial inhibitions in becoming effective, creative problem solvers who, by the …
Mash Maker: Improvisation For Student Studios, Ryan Slone, Bree Mcmahon
Mash Maker: Improvisation For Student Studios, Ryan Slone, Bree Mcmahon
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As design educators, we feel it’s imperative to prepare students for the wicked problems of the 21st century. Design Futures, the briefing papers released by AIGA in 2018, anticipates a complex future where design solutions must be increasingly open-ended to accommodate many layers of uncertainty. In an effort to model such unpredictable constraints, we developed the Mash Maker project, a design charrette that explores the collision of time and form through a system of carefully devised prompts. The conditions encouraged first-year design students to utilize improvisation methods, iteration, and collaboration while underscoring the value of process over outcome. Music provided …
Track 05: Co-Creation Of Interdisciplinary Design Educations, Arild Berg, Camilla Groth, Fausto Medola, Kate Sellen
Track 05: Co-Creation Of Interdisciplinary Design Educations, Arild Berg, Camilla Groth, Fausto Medola, Kate Sellen
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Exploring challenges related to co-creation practices when disciplinary world views 'crash' and what the implications of these are for design education.
Track 06: Learning Though Materiality And Making, Juha Hartvik, Mia Porko-Hudd, Ingvild Digranes
Track 06: Learning Though Materiality And Making, Juha Hartvik, Mia Porko-Hudd, Ingvild Digranes
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In this track, the interest is directed towards children’s and young people’s opportunity to process materials in order to gain experience, knowledge and learning that can be useful at different stages of life, in study, professional and leisure activities. We welcome research presentations that look at materiality and making in both formal and informal learning environments.
Tilting To Transform: Sensorial Problem-Framing, Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan
Tilting To Transform: Sensorial Problem-Framing, Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan
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This workshop will engage participants in a sequence of individual and group activities that utilise real and fictional sensorial modalities to reimagine problems and humanise design thinking. The 60 minutes online session will experiment with sensory scenarios and how they can enhance reframing and responsibly ‘tilt’ design problems and approaches, leading also to engaging participants in a discourse on the role of design within society and ecology. This workshop stems from wider research being undertaken into a system of teaching interventions that positively disrupt the curriculum, to catalyse and reinforce learning around design action and eco-social consequence. As such, this …
Architectural Design Studio As An 'Extended Problem Space', F. Zeynep Ata, Fehmi Dogan
Architectural Design Studio As An 'Extended Problem Space', F. Zeynep Ata, Fehmi Dogan
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Drawing on the foundational theory of Zone of Proximal Development, this paper approaches dominant architectural design studio pedagogies critically and explores how the concept of ‘extended problem space’ can help develop better pedagogies for design learning. A conceptual framework is introduced through a theoretical understanding of architectural design studios’ multi-layered environmental sphere of cognitive systems based on previous research on studio education. The formation of the framework is inspired by an earlier study carried out in knowledge production and transmission processes in a research laboratory that considers the human and non-human components of the laboratory within an evolutionary mechanism. Cognitive …
Systemic Design Education In Interdisciplinary Environments: Enhancing A Co-Disciplinary Approach Towards Circular Economy, Asja Aulisio, Amina Pereno, Fabiana Rovera, Silvia Barbero
Systemic Design Education In Interdisciplinary Environments: Enhancing A Co-Disciplinary Approach Towards Circular Economy, Asja Aulisio, Amina Pereno, Fabiana Rovera, Silvia Barbero
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The transition of our linear economic models towards a Circular Economy is perceived as a pressing need at European level. A growing body of literature highlights the demand for new skills to facilitate this transition: more than new professions, it is about specific profes-sional skills for circular businesses. The European Erasmus+ project MULTITRACES falls within this scenario and is based on the co-creation of a multidisciplinary online training pro-gramme that involved Systemic Design in collaboration with other scientific and economic disciplines. The learning process focused on the acquisition of both hard and soft skills rele-vant to the Circular Economy in …
Professionalization Of The Discipline Of Interior Architecture: Development Of A ‘Ready To Use Concept’ To Intertwine Research And Education, Katelijn Quartier
Professionalization Of The Discipline Of Interior Architecture: Development Of A ‘Ready To Use Concept’ To Intertwine Research And Education, Katelijn Quartier
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Within the discipline of interior architecture, this paper takes the example of the specific domain of retail design to illustrate the interrelatedness between research and education at our faculty. We will elaborate on how we came to develop a ‘ready to use concept’, con-taining design guidelines and tools, that support students in making informed design deci-sions. As such, based on several workshops and an extensive literature review, eight tools were developed alongside 127 design guidelines. The tools and guidelines are inherently part of the retail design studio which is taught by a practitioner and an academic trained de-signer in order …
What Have You Learned? An Experimental Approach In Teaching Human Factors In Design To Undergraduate Id Students, Selen Sarıel
What Have You Learned? An Experimental Approach In Teaching Human Factors In Design To Undergraduate Id Students, Selen Sarıel
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This case study presents an in-class exercise as a way to learn about the course learning outcomes for a Human Factors in Design course carried out with undergraduate level industrial design students in the 2020-2021 academic year. The paper introduces the course content, comprised of the theoretical knowledge-sharing part, sample assignments and in-class exercises to define the context of the study. Watching the same short movie at the beginning and the end of the learning period, students responded to open-ended questions that encouraged them to think about how their perception had changed towards the content of the movie and to …
Reframing Ageing In Design Education: A Case Study, Emma Gieben-Gamal
Reframing Ageing In Design Education: A Case Study, Emma Gieben-Gamal
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People in the later stages of life make up one of the most differentiated and experientially rich groups in society which should make design for an ageing population one of the most stimulating areas for design practice. Yet ‘old’ age in the UK is largely framed as a problem to be solved; a position that design often (unconsciously) serves to perpetuate and reinforce. This case study will outline the context for an undergraduate course that seeks to overturn this negative frame that not only ‘others’ older people but also begets a paradoxical self-othering of our future selves. Picking up on …
Track 02: Empowering Critical Design Literacy, Eva Lutnæs
Track 02: Empowering Critical Design Literacy, Eva Lutnæs
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In track 02, we invited design researchers and educators to explore, and crack open critical design literacy as a subset of design literacy. At the core of critical design... literacy, we suggested the ability to connect to real-world dilemmas with empathy, reject destructive products of human creativity and focus on problems that are worth solving. The main concern of the track is the exploration of current educational practices, academic discourses and implications of design education empowering for critical design literacy at a specific level of education or across levels (kindergarten to PhD).
Students And Teachers Becoming Co-Designers Of Learning: A Virtual Learning Space For Creating, Organising, And Sharing Media-Rich Documents, Gloria Gomez, Rodney Tamblyn
Students And Teachers Becoming Co-Designers Of Learning: A Virtual Learning Space For Creating, Organising, And Sharing Media-Rich Documents, Gloria Gomez, Rodney Tamblyn
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This interactive workshop will introduce a virtual personal learning environment for creating, organising, and sharing media-rich documents. This environment was developed to address issues in online education around student engagement and enabling academic staff to author their own teaching content. Its implementation was informed by design-based research undertaken from an interaction design perspective with bridging design prototypes. Its educational foundations are drawn from the fields of study skills for academic success, good visual design that facilitates metacognition, and networked learning for promoting connection between people. The implementation of a same interface for students and teachers to use has broadened participation …
Beyond Problem-Solving: Re-Imagining Workshop Materials, Allison Edwards, Hannah Korsmeyer
Beyond Problem-Solving: Re-Imagining Workshop Materials, Allison Edwards, Hannah Korsmeyer
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Design has a rich history of being framed as a problem-solving activity (Simon, 1995). However, this does not fully capture the plurality of diverse practices designers use to engage with complex challenges in creative ways. As we seek to design more joyful and affirming workshops for diverse audiences, we can also re-imagine the roles played by the co-design materials we select or create, beyond functioning as tools for problem-solving. This workshop introduces a framework that leverages the potentially playful and pedagogically rich co-facilitation performed by these materials, and encourages participants to re-image the role materials play in their own participatory …
Learning Design, Co-Designing Learning: Collaborative Learning Design Workshops For Innovation In Teaching/Learning And Faculty Development Programs:, Stefano Perna, Pietro Nunziante
Learning Design, Co-Designing Learning: Collaborative Learning Design Workshops For Innovation In Teaching/Learning And Faculty Development Programs:, Stefano Perna, Pietro Nunziante
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The paper explores the field of Collaborative Learning Design Workshops, a specific type of par-ticipatory workshop designed to facilitate the process of co-designing learning experiences by interdisciplinary teams of academics and educators from all backgrounds. An overview of the field of Learning Design or “Design for Learning” is presented. A specific case study is then pre-sented, The Learning Experience Design workshop a co-design workshop designed and run by the authors as part of the F.E.D.E.R.I.C.O. faculty development program for innovation in teaching and learning targeted to newly hired lecturers and researchers at the University of Naples Fed-erico II, Italy. The …
Educational Programs In Between Design And Supply Chain: Significant Examples Of Academia-Sme’S Joint Labs In Italy, Gabriele Goretti, Gianni Denaro
Educational Programs In Between Design And Supply Chain: Significant Examples Of Academia-Sme’S Joint Labs In Italy, Gabriele Goretti, Gianni Denaro
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Locate: Furniture manufacturing in Italy is based on interconnected small and medium-sized enterprises based on craftsmanship know-how. Focus: These companies have under-taken profound transformations within the production chain in a logic of "advanced crafts-manship", integrating enabling technologies into high-quality craftsmanship processes. This transformation is aiming at shaping "intelligent enterprises" and it requires new design pro-fessionals able to work with systemic view, connecting design competencies to an overview on the supply chain issues. Report: In this context, Academia-Industry Joint programs could train design managers able to understand, acquire and integrate the tangible and intangible values of manufacturing culture and technological innovations. …
Rethinking Experiential Learning In Design Education: The Shift Of The Systemic Design Course To A Multimodal Online Learning Environment, Alessandro Campanella, Eliana Ferrulli, Silvia Barbero
Rethinking Experiential Learning In Design Education: The Shift Of The Systemic Design Course To A Multimodal Online Learning Environment, Alessandro Campanella, Eliana Ferrulli, Silvia Barbero
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The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has generated serious consequences on the higher ed-ucation sector, highlighting its existing vulnerabilities and forcing it to face complex challenges. However, the current situation can also be seen as an opportunity to deeply rethink the learning activities and the environments in which they are carried out, whether online or in the class-room, designing long-term innovation plans that extends beyond the end of the crisis. The paper aims to explore the process of redesigning an experiential and social learning course for an online learning modality. The reported case study, the Systemic Design course held in …
Track 07: Sketching & Drawing Education And Knowledge, Bryan F. Howell, Jan Willem Hoftijzer, Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Mark Sypesteyn, Rik De Reuver
Track 07: Sketching & Drawing Education And Knowledge, Bryan F. Howell, Jan Willem Hoftijzer, Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Mark Sypesteyn, Rik De Reuver
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Design sketching and drawing (education and knowledge) are inherently visual and multimodal (cognitive coding) and rapidly evolving in contemporary culture. Today, sketching and drawing research in design education is primed for reinterpretation and new contextualisation. Discussions about analogue and digital sketching, live and online education, traditional and emerging visual domain contexts, generative and explanatory visual knowledge, and emerging technology tools and methods have seeded the ground to reassess our relationships with the role and values of sketching, drawing education, and visual knowledge in general. This track includes three articles and two workshops that explore these emerging trends. The first article …
Paris 2011: Researching Design Education, Erik Bohemia
Paris 2011: Researching Design Education, Erik Bohemia
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A number of events led to the development of the International Conference for Design Education Researchers. One of these was a declaration by the Dean of the Design School where I worked at the time that academics in the design field should not be pursuing design education research. I felt this was a poorly conceived idea as most design academics are concerned about their student's learning and thus would be motivated to become acquainted with practice-based research to evidence their ‘good’ pedagogical practices. Second, was the realisation that, in the UK, design education research was seen as uncritical and thus …
Track 10: Design Educators As Change Agents, Xiang Xia, Ziyuan Wang, Yang Zhang
Track 10: Design Educators As Change Agents, Xiang Xia, Ziyuan Wang, Yang Zhang
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In this track, the collection of the invited 16 submissions exemplifies teaching and learning experiences in design education research including 12 research papers, 2 case studies, and 2 workshop proposals. The submission explored the theme from different cultural perspectives which ranged from the insight of teaching creativity and design thinking, designers in a studio, design knowledge and methods applied in design classes, and the leadership and related course settings. Moreover, these studies employed diverse methods including verification research, case studies, exploratory study, protocol study, and empirical studies.