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A Methodological Approach To Modelling Design Led Innovation Across Secondary Education: An Australian Case Study, Natalie Wright, Cara Wrigley, Sam Bucolo

Learn X Design Conference Series

Incorporating design thinking as a generic capability at a school level is needed to ensure future generations are empowered for business innovation and active citizenship. This paper describes the methodology of an investigation into modelling design led innovation approaches from the business sector to secondary education, as part of a larger study. It builds on a previously discussed research agenda by outlining the scope, significance and limitations of currently available research in this area, examining an action research methodology utilising an Australian design immersion program case study, and discussing implications and future work. It employs a triangulated approach encompassing thematic …

Program: Featured Lecture, "We Shall Assemble On The Mountain.", John Mark Hicks

William M. Green Distinguished Christian Lecture Program

Program for the Thirty-Fourth Annual William M. Green Distinguished Christian Lecture Program with featured lecturer Dr. John Mark Hicks, Professor of Theology, Lipscomb University.

Design And Business Double Education: Cross-Country Comparison, Fabiane Wolff, Birgitte Borja De Mozota, Andrea Capra, Daniela Szabluk, Julia Stephanou Nascimento

Learn X Design Conference Series

Design thinking is the buzz in the management community these days. Managers are encouraged to get out of the box, apply user-oriented research and think more systemically and less analytically, the way designers are trained to do. Previous research on business education best-sellers in France and Brazil shows evidence that design is not considered or is restricted to a very limited content, pointing out that managers are not prepared to understand design. That reality is also perceived on the day by day relationships of both designers and managers and brings forth the issue of double education. Is it the solution? …

Developing Design Thinking Expertise In Higher Education, Andrew Withell, Neil Haigh

Learn X Design Conference Series

Design Thinking describes a human-centred methodology for innovation, which has evolved from the study of the unique ways in which designers 'think', and 'practice'. There is growing evidence of the increased uptake of Design Thinking in design, business and other disciplines, and there is an emerging body of research. There is a need to develop sound University curricula that are founded in relevant theory and research findings, however, there appears to be a relatively small amount of rigorous research on the learning and teaching of Design Thinking. This paper presents the initial stages of a PhD research project that explores …

Fostering Deep Learning In Respect To The Social Aspects Of Sustainable Product Design, Matthew Watkins

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This paper presents findings from a doctoral study, which investigated effective methods for teaching social sustainability within product design courses in British and Irish universities. Specifically exploring how appropriate methods can be used to foster deep learning in respect to the social aspects of sustainable product design.The importance of deep learning is reflected in both the sustainable design education (O’Rafferty et al., 2008, Griffith and Bamford, 2007) and education for sustainability literature (Warburton, 2003).Three 'Rethinking Design' workshops were designed and developed as part of the doctoral main study to introduce students to the wider social aspects of sustainability and were …

Improving Simulations Of Sonic Booms Heard Indoors And Outdoors And Explore How The Sound Characteristics Affect Annoyance, Yingxiang Jiang, Patricia Davies

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Supersonic flights can greatly shorten the flight time in the world and provide convenience for people all over the world. However, commercial supersonic flights over US territories are banned by Federal Aviation Administration in 1973 due to the intolerably loud noise of sonic booms. Recently, a few demonstrator aircraft have been built that produce much quieter booms. To determine whether the new boom is acceptable, many laboratory researchers are using simulated sonic boom signals for subjective test because the method is easy and cost-efficient, whereas it might not have enough fidelity to address the effect of the original one. In …

Morality Without God, Jeffrey Freelin

Conference on Philosophy and Theology

Commentator: Laurence Rohrer (Lincoln University)

No Meaning Without God, Chris Gadsden

Conference on Philosophy and Theology

Commentator: Bruce Ballard (Lincoln University)

Do You Have To Be Religious To Find Meaning In Life, David Holley

Conference on Philosophy and Theology

Featured Speaker

Low-Tech Skills In High-Tech Solutions Era: The Cognitive Benefits Of Basic Craft Techniques In Formal Design Education, Gordana Vrencoska

Learn X Design Conference Series

The formal design education in the 21st century is confronted with an expanding list of challenges: knowledge availability on the Internet; handicraft vs. computer skills; amateurism; specialist vs. multidisciplinary curriculums; national vs. international agendas, etc. In a multifaceted design education where everything is accessible and the disciplines’ borders are blurred, there is a rising necessity for structured and intelligent design process, to reflect the need for smart and sustainable design solutions in the complex high-tech Era. Equipped with computers and internet resources, students are allowed instant access to infinite repositories of visual material and ready-for-digital-recycling creative solutions. This may accelerate …

Design Education For Social Sustainability, Su Vernon

Learn X Design Conference Series

In a changing world how do we educate students for equitable global sustainability and embed design for social need in curricula? This paper explores pedagogic methods for people-centred design and considers the benefits this can provide for students, whilst preparing them for future careers in a globally challenging environment. Examples of user-focused design relating to health, wellbeing and education illustrate social and community issues driving design ideation, process and outcome. Inherent value gained through experiential learning is analysed alongside associated assessment issues. Researched case studies indicate that students engaging with people-centred projects and learning through leading acquire enhanced multi-faceted professional …

Listening Design: A New Methodology For Design And Innovation Processes, Rosanna Veneziano, Patrizia Ranzo, Giulia Scalera, Mara Rossi

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The aim of the paper is to describe a design methodology in the area of innovation design highlighting the importance of sharing strategies, methods and listening practices to be implemented at specific stages in the project's development. The ability of creative systems to generate product or process innovation and to integrate creativity and know-how in the products is the necessary condition to promote design activities and the following competitive dynamics able to meet the needs of the ever-changing world of consumption. The presence of universities, defined as “engines of innovation” (Florida et al. 2002), in complex production territories can establish …

Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison

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Across the domains of design education the Design PhD is an area of much contemporary discussion and debate internationally. As the field of the discipline of design matures, so does its relationship with this qualification: its form, methods and relevance within and beyond the academy. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their respective observations of differing models of undertaking design PhDs and subsequent models of submission and examination. Founded in their observations of the diversity of design PhDs pedagogically and structurally, the authors have begun a global mapping of current PhDs in design and are exploring how the …

A “Filing System” For Teaching Research Skills In Interior Architecture Education, Jan Vanrie, Kris Pint

Learn X Design Conference Series

Creating physical environments for humans, more specifically the design disciplines of interior architecture/design, involves a wide variety of aspects to be considered: material, technical, cultural, psychological, artistic... It is therefore important to provide students with the necessary tools (research skills) not only to address the different types of problems and questions that arise during this creative process, but –ultimately- also to ensure the continuing development of interior architecture as a profession and as an academic discipline through the development of its proper research methods. However, we have been coming across a number of obstacles and challenges in our effort to …

Concerto Competition Final Round, Roberta Rust

Concerto Competition

Competition Coordinator

• Dr. Roberta Rust

Jury

• Julian Martin, piano (The Juilliard School)
• Eric Ruske, horn (Boston University)
• Ilya Kaler, violin (DePaul University)

Piano Accompanists

• Heqing Huang (Piano Performance Student)
• Carina Inoue (Collaborative Piano Student)
• Olga Kim (Collaborative Piano Student)
• Sheng-Yuan Kuan (Lynn University)
• Hsin-Hui Liu (Piano Performance Student)
• Dr. Marina Radiushina (Guest Accompanist)
• Jihong Park (Collaborative Piano Student)
• Ricardo Pozenatto (Collaborative Piano Student)

Canvassers

• Roberta Burns
• Jack Kracke

Final Round

• Delcho Tenev, violin - Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 2 (Kuan)
• Vijeta Sathyaraj, violin - Ravle, Tzigane (Kuan)
• Evgenia Zharzhavskaya, violin & Felicia Besan, viola - Mozart, …

K-12 Design Education, Creativity, And The Corporate World, Robin Vande Zande

Learn X Design Conference Series

Creativity has been described by a number of researchers as a 21st Century Skill and a way for students to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens. The corporate sector has had tremendous impact on what happens in American education for years and continues to do so. Teachers should understand that it is often beneficial to speak the language of business and cite corporate authors to offer validation for what they teach as being essential for creative skills. An effective way for teachers to teach creativity in the context of business is through design education, a natural integrator of various subject …

Confronting Cultural Difference In The Establishment Of A Global Zen Community, Joshua A. Irizarry

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

As a commercial phenomenon, Zen is recognizable throughout the world as a lucrative brand name that communicates harmony, simplicity, and cosmopolitan elegance. In contrast, the Japanese Zen institution’s attempts to develop Zen into a successful global religion have proven more problematic. Despite initial successes by Japanese clergy in establishing centers of Zen practice throughout Europe and the Americas, the past fifty years have seen the dream of a global Zen community descend into a legacy of controversy, scandals, and schisms over conflicting claims of authority.

Looking specifically at the internationalization efforts of the Japanese Sōtō Zen sect, this paper will …

What Jane Saw: An Example In Digital Humanities, Janine Barchas

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

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New Perspectives On Elizabeth Bennet, Toni Guthrie, Margaret M. Dunn, Lori Halvorsen Zerne

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

In this session Toni Guthrie, Margaret Dunn, and Lori Halvorsen Zerne presented the following papers:

• “Women Who Like to Read: Jane Austen’s and Elizabeth Bennet’s Views of Education” - Toni Guthrie
• “Lessons in Mentorship from Elizabeth Bennet” - Margaret Dunn
• “Ideology in ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’” - Lori Halvorsen Zerne

At the end of the session the presenters answered questions from the audience.

Negotiating Colonialism And Chineseness: Museums, Tours, And Heritage Preservation In Pearl River Delta, Macau, And Hong Kong, Wing-Kai To

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

The history of Hong Kong, Macau, and the Pearl River Delta in connecting China with the world through European colonialism and globalization is a well-documented story. Yet the recent designations of the Historic Centre of Macau in 2005 and the Kaiping "diaolou" (fortified watched towers and mansions) in 2007 as World Cultural Heritage sites have further placed two Chinese outposts of western influence and overseas emigration into sharper focus. With the return of Hong Kong and Macau to Chinese sovereignty at the turn of the last century along with cultural change in the Pearl River Delta, museums, tourism, and heritage …

Maneuvering Modernity: Family Law As A Battle Field In Colonial Taiwan (1895-1945), Yun-Ru Chen

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

Twenty five years after launching its own legal modernization in response to Western imperialism, Japan imposed a modern legal system upon its first colony, Taiwan. In accordance with the “respecting old custom” colonial policy, the Japanese created a system called Taiwanese customary law, a mixture of imperial Chinese laws, local customs and European legal concepts, and gradually implemented its newly adopted European-style Meiji Civil Code (1898). However, even since the late 1910s when the colonial policy changed into “full-flag assimilation,” family law remained an exception to the transplantation of Japanese laws. That did not, however, mean that family law was …

Between Regional And National Identity: Spectacle And Festival In Modern Japan, Sean H. Mcpherson

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

Distinctive cultures of display and spectacle mark the regional diversity of Japanese festivals. At the same time, material and ritual links among these traditions speak to broader forces of cultural standardization and commodification. This paper examines the mobile architecture and wood sculpture of festival floats (dashi) in central Japan as discursive and material markers of the connections between local Shintō festivals (matsuri) and broader agendas of nationalism in modern Japan. The Chita peninsula in Aichi prefecture is famous for dashimatsuri, Shintō shrine festivals featuring the procession of huge, wheeled floats called dashi. I argue that the recurrent reinvention …

Jane Austen And The Women's Movement, Devoney Looser

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

No abstract provided.

Painting Taiwan's Modern Identity, Shelley D. Hawks

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

Taiwan’s painters were dynamic contributors to a revolution in color that dramatically reshaped East Asian art. During the early twentieth century, new techniques of on-site sketching and the introduction of oil paint shook the foundations of Chinese and Japanese ink painting as it had been practiced for centuries. The Japanese colonization of Taiwan, a period when educators such as Ishikawa systematically introduced European painting methods, produced a cohort of painters in Taiwan professionally trained and committed to watercolor and oil painting. Building on international art trends like Impressionism and Fauvism, these painters developed a sense of color distinctly their own. …

Recreating Traditional Japan In Brinkley's Japan, Described And Illustrated By The Japanese, Daniel J. Johnson

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

In 1897-98, Francis Brinkley edited the ten volume set Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. Brinkley (1841-1912) was an Irish sea captain who resided in Japan for over forty years, spoke and wrote fluent Japanese, was the editor of Japan Mail, an influential English-language newspaper. Published by J. B. Millet Company in Boston and Tokyo, the books were produced for the American and European markets and were a great financial success.

Published in several sizes, from cheap editions illustrated with black and white reproductions to folio sized editions bound in …

Artful Networking: Art Collecting And Cultural Positioning In Early Qing China - The Case Of Gao Shiqi (1645-1704), Amy Huang

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

In this paper I analyze Gao Shiqi’s高士奇 (1645-1704) collecting practices in the context of early Qing politics. This paper argues that art collecting was used as an effective networking tool and played an significant part in defining Gao Shiqi’s cultural status in the court during the Kangxi reign (r. 1661-1722).

Gao Shiqi rose to prominence as Kangxi Emperor’s favorite courtier despite not having a jinshi degree. Because of his inferior background, Gao Shiqi was under pressure to assert his status within the circle of cultural elite—art collecting was his solution. Analysis of his private art inventory indicates that Gao had …

Gender In Pride And Prejudice, Stacey Donald, Douglas Murray, James Tyler

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

In this session Stacey Donald, Douglas Murray, and James Tyler presented the following papers:

• “Silly Men: Austen and the Parody of Masculinity in Pride and Prejudice” by Stacey Donald
• “‘Fine Eyes:’ Male and Female Gazes in Pride and Prejudice” by Douglas Murray
• “Failures of the Father: Mr. Bennet’s Vital Role in Establishing the New Mistress of Pemberley” by James Tyler

At the end of the session the presenters answered questions from the audience.

Aesthetic Beauty In The 18th Century Chinese Novel Guwanyan (Preposterous Words), Qing Ye

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

This paper explores the tension between the radical sexual description and orthodox rhetoric in 18th century Chinese vernacular narrative. My research focuses on a xiaoshuo fiction, Guwangyan (Preposterous Words), authored by Cao Qujing and composed in 1730. This novel pictures the domestic lives of four families in Nanjing from the end of the 17th century to the early 18th century, including many explicit sexual descriptions. I argue that the author projects the ethic concern through the structure and characterization, while presents the anxiety towards desire in graphic sexual descriptions in the novel. The contrast and complementarity of the structural frame …

Absent Presence: Li Yu’S Drama Wanli Yuan And Early Qing Sartorial Politics, Guojun Wang

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

Li Yu’s 李玉 Wanli yuan 萬里圓 (Thousand-li Reunion) is one of the few dramas in the early Qing period that directly addresses the topic of the Ming-Qing transition. Although Wanli yuan was never published in its entirety during the Qing Dynasty, its popular scenes circulated widely on stage, resulting in a series of “performance editions.” Oriented toward stage performance, most of Li Yu’s plays include detailed costume instruction. By contrast, almost none of the extant editions of Wanli yuan includes any costume instruction. Despite this absence, the dialogues and stage directions of the extant performance editions show that different scenes …

The East India Company's 1835 Currency Reform, Ian Barrow

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

This paper examines the East India Company’s 1835 currency reform. The measure created, for the first time, a unified currency within the Company’s Indian territories. Moreover, it stopped the longstanding practices of minting rupees in the Mughal Emperor’s name and solely in Persian, and instead introduced coins that featured the bust of the British King along with the Company’s name and the denomination written in English. Because coins are among the most evident ways states express their sense of self and power, the political effect of the reform was to underscore the decades-long process whereby the Company phased out Mughal …