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Track 07: Sketching & Drawing Education And Knowledge, Bryan F. Howell, Jan Willem Hoftijzer, Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Mark Sypesteyn, Rik De Reuver Sep 2021

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 …


Track 09: Futures Of Design Education, Yashar Kardar, Lilyana Yazirlıoğlu, Ayşegül Özçelik, Sarper Seydioglu Sep 2021

Track 09: Futures Of Design Education, Yashar Kardar, Lilyana Yazirlıoğlu, Ayşegül Özçelik, Sarper Seydioglu

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The aim of this track was to explore possible alternatives in design education. When planning the overall scope of the track, we were interested in understanding how educators try to enable more accessible, inclusive, and adaptable design education models. We were particularly interested in understanding the affordances of time and space in design education and sustainable education models where members, independent of where they are and how they are, have the possibility to access education. The five submissions accepted from 23 authors approach the theme of this track from various perspectives, highlighting different aspects of approaches to other ways and …


Track 10: Design Educators As Change Agents, Xiang Xia, Ziyuan Wang, Yang Zhang Sep 2021

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.


10th Anniversary Of The International Conference For Design Education Researchers, Lusheng Pan Sep 2021

10th Anniversary Of The International Conference For Design Education Researchers, Lusheng Pan

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As the DRS LEARNXDESIGN General Chair, it is my hope, that in the next decade, the future conference organising committee members will look at back this 10th Anniversary of the International Conference for Design Education Researchers volume of conference proceedings with an affection. The volume reflects the dedicated work of close to 500 individuals who in various ways contributed to production of these proceedings as authors, peer reviewers, planners, volunteers, editors, managers, technicians, or designers. The 10th Anniversary of the International Conference for Design Education Researchers reflects incredible determination of those who came before us who initiated and establish conference …


Jinan 2021: Engaging With Challenges In Design Education, Erik Bohemia, Liv Merete Nielsen, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Yang Zhang Sep 2021

Jinan 2021: Engaging With Challenges In Design Education, Erik Bohemia, Liv Merete Nielsen, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Yang Zhang

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The year 2021 has been particularly special for the DRS Learn X Design (LxD 2021)1 organising teams. The conference series marked the 10th anniversary since the first event was held in Paris in 2011. The DRS Learn X Design 2021, 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers took place online between 24–26 September 2021. It was hosted by Shandong University of Art & Design (SUAD) in Jinan, China. During this online international conference, the participants reflected on the ongoing challenges which have affected their practices. The process of sharing different perspectives with the international design education community members facilitated collective …


Chicago 2015: Education And Design To Enlighten A Citizenry, Robin Vande Zande Sep 2021

Chicago 2015: Education And Design To Enlighten A Citizenry, Robin Vande Zande

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International Conference for Design Education Researchers, “LearnXDesign2015” was hosted by the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. At the heart of the conference was a comprehensive engagement of topics across design pedagogy and research through presentations, workshops, and conversations. Delegates from 34 countries and 120 institutions attended and presented high standard scholarship on methodologies and concepts. Diverse topics were covered such as improving the world through design, exploring biomimicry, changing learning environments, strategizing teacher training, and exploring creativity. The conference was a springboard for sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design research and education. Contributors were invited to submit …


Ankara 2019: Insider Knowledge, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Fatma Korkut, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım Sep 2021

Ankara 2019: Insider Knowledge, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Fatma Korkut, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım

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The fifth conference of the Learn X Design series, DRSLXD2019, was held in Ankara between 9-12 July 2019, hosted by Middle East Technical University (METU).


London 2017: The Allure Of The Digital And Beyond, Derek Jones Sep 2021

London 2017: The Allure Of The Digital And Beyond, Derek Jones

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The fourth international DRS PedSIG Conference on Design Education, LearnXDesign 2017, was held at the end of June 2017 in London, UK. Titled “The Allure of the Digital and Beyond”, the conference aimed to: “…bring together researchers and practitioners with an international reach and from a wide variety of education design settings with the intention of connecting emergent models and ideas around the digital, with the scholarship of teaching and learning”


Paris 2011: Researching Design Education, Erik Bohemia Sep 2021

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 …


Oslo 2013: Design Learning For Tomorrow, Liv Merete Nielsen Sep 2021

Oslo 2013: Design Learning For Tomorrow, Liv Merete Nielsen

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The 2nd Conference for Design Education Researchers was arranged 14-17th of May 2013 at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (now Oslo Metropolitan University). The thematic focus was Design Learning for Tomorrow. Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD, and it attracted 278 delegates from 43 countries. Researchers from more than 74 universities conducted a rigorous, double-blind review process of 225 full papers, from which 165 were selected for presentation at the conference and included in the four volumes of conference proceedings (Reitan et al., 2013). After the conference some papers were further developed and published in …


I Can And I Will: A Study Of ‘Grit’ In A Collaborative Team Learning Studio Pedagogical Culture, Zhengping Liow Sep 2021

I Can And I Will: A Study Of ‘Grit’ In A Collaborative Team Learning Studio Pedagogical Culture, Zhengping Liow

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Despite its long history, architecture education remains under-theorised. Design educators’ faith in the ubiquitous Master and Apprentice (M&A) pedagogy is increasingly worrying where knowledge is tacitly transferred in asymmetrical power structured environments through the ‘Hidden Curriculum’. Some students thrived. While some did not. Were some learners grittier than others? Grit (passion and perseverance for long-term goals) was often used as predictors of academic success. The experimental heterarchical Collaborative Team Learning (CTL) studio pedagogical culture departs from the ‘Mystery-as-Mastery’ authoritarian one-on-one (OOO) pedagogy, characterised by the tutor-induced cross-pollinative peer-to-peer formative reviews in normalising daily ‘setbacks’ relating to their individual projects. The …


From Eyes To Ears How To Deal With The Acoustic Element ‘Voice’ As A Visual Designer, Daniela Hensel, Birgit Bauer, Stefanie Voß Sep 2021

From Eyes To Ears How To Deal With The Acoustic Element ‘Voice’ As A Visual Designer, Daniela Hensel, Birgit Bauer, Stefanie Voß

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As part of the ‘software evolution’ (Mens, 2008), acoustic rather than visual interfaces are increasingly developing into the decisive contact point in the interaction between the product or service and the user. Voices, ‘VUI’s, play an important role the design of communication, yet communication designers are not yet firmly established in this field and, for example, the process of voice selection is often described as a particular hurdle especially when the selection needs to align with strategic parameters of a brand. This raises several questions: What role can communication designers play in the future in the complex field of designing …


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 Sep 2021

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 …


Challenges In Multidisciplinary Student Collaboration: Reflections On Student Peer Assessments In Design Education, Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Marina Emmanouil, Jan Detand Sep 2021

Challenges In Multidisciplinary Student Collaboration: Reflections On Student Peer Assessments In Design Education, Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Marina Emmanouil, Jan Detand

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This paper reports on a study currently conducted in the scope of an Erasmus+ KA2 project on the subject of co-creation in design education. A case study was carried out on a third-year bachelor design engineering course (“Co-creation”) at which 48 students from different study disciplines, levels and countries worked together in groups to tackle societal challenges. This research aims to gain insights into students’ experiences and problems with regard to taking part in a multidisciplinary co-creation process by scrutinising student’s self-and peer-assessment reports. Findings refer to the essentials and challenges of multidisciplinary co-creation processes from a student perspective. In …


A Game Implementation Approach For Design Education, Duhan Ölmez, Fehmi Doğan Sep 2021

A Game Implementation Approach For Design Education, Duhan Ölmez, Fehmi Doğan

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This paper proposes a new implementation of video games to be used as an architectural design education tool within design studios. There are studies which include video games in design educa-tion, however, they include video games either as mere representational media, or simplified de-sign environments, or as just visualization tools. Video games’ structures provide a ground for de-signing with constraints to find solutions to ill-defined design problems with a trial-and-error pro-cess. As an addition to traditional master and apprentice model of learning in the studio, video games can reduce the workload of the tutors and allow them to focus on …


Framing Research Assistants’ Pedagogical Roles In Design Studio Courses: Initial Findings, Koray Gelmez, Pelin Efilti, Enver Tatlısu, Tuğçe Ecem Tüfek, Onur Yılmaz Sep 2021

Framing Research Assistants’ Pedagogical Roles In Design Studio Courses: Initial Findings, Koray Gelmez, Pelin Efilti, Enver Tatlısu, Tuğçe Ecem Tüfek, Onur Yılmaz

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Participants of a design studio regardless of the titles and responsibilities apparently influence both teaching and learning processes. Even though it is possible to find several studies focusing on design teachers and design students, scholars have been silent to investigate the teaching activities of research/teaching assistants in a design studio course context. This study is an attempt to understand and frame the perceived pedagogical roles of research assistants in design studio courses. In this sense, we designed a survey addressing in-studio roles and responsibilities, the relations with the instructors, the effects on the student learning process, the factors shaping pedagogical …


Interdisciplinary Boundary Experiences: Learning Through Conversations, Laura Ferrarello, Catherine Dormor Sep 2021

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 …


Cross-Cultural Ux Pedagogy: A China–Us Partnership, Ziqing Li, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, Kevin Mcdonald, Lukas Marinovic, Wei Liu Sep 2021

Cross-Cultural Ux Pedagogy: A China–Us Partnership, Ziqing Li, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, Kevin Mcdonald, Lukas Marinovic, Wei Liu

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The recent emergence of new undergraduate and graduate design programs with a focus specific to User Experience (UX) offers new opportunities to engage with the complexity of these educational practices. In this paper, we report on a series of ten interviews with students and faculty to describe cross-cultural connections between two UX-focused programs, one in China and one in the United States. Our study includes the perspectives of students who engaged in intercultural UX experiences, as well as the perspectives of the faculty who designed those student experiences through an intercultural partnership. We report on how each program was created, …


Senseed: A Multisensory Environment Design For Urban Pre-Schoolers In China To Learn About Plant Seeds, Ge Fu Sep 2021

Senseed: A Multisensory Environment Design For Urban Pre-Schoolers In China To Learn About Plant Seeds, Ge Fu

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A consequence of rapid urbanisation is the ever-limited availability of green space in cities, limit-ing children's access to nature and associated learning opportunities. To address this issue, the present paper describes the design of a learning environment called Senseed. The proposed pro-ject will introduce urban children aged 3-6 years to sensory games designed to increase their in-teraction with China's natural environment, thus enhancing their interest in and understanding of nature. The study combines interviews, a questionnaire, and case studies to identify environmen-tal education issues for pre-school learners, employing exhibition settings as a healthy and engag-ing multidisciplinary approach to pre-schoolers' needs. …


Transformative Teaching Practice Through A Design Thinking Approach In Social Settings: A Reflection On The Delivery Of A Design Research Methods Module In A Graphic Design Programme At Undergraduate Level, Janey Deng Klingelfuss, Markus Klingelfuss Sep 2021

Transformative Teaching Practice Through A Design Thinking Approach In Social Settings: A Reflection On The Delivery Of A Design Research Methods Module In A Graphic Design Programme At Undergraduate Level, Janey Deng Klingelfuss, Markus Klingelfuss

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An acknowledgement of the transformative nature of education; one in which design educators are seen as active agents of change, is not new. However, acknowledging the importance of such a phenomenon is fundamental to exploring academic practice in design education. In relation to social contexts and transformations, meeting stakeholders’ needs is increasingly significant to how universities set out graduate options and outcomes for students. Higher education is expected to play a key role in developing the multiple skills and capacities of design and creative subject students for future work in the creative and cultural industries (Ashton, 2017; Naudin, 2013; Nesta, …


Research On The Constituency Of The Advisory Committee Of Chinese Design Schools From A Sustainable Perspective, Fan Chen, Lin Li, Jing-Yi Yang Sep 2021

Research On The Constituency Of The Advisory Committee Of Chinese Design Schools From A Sustainable Perspective, Fan Chen, Lin Li, Jing-Yi Yang

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The design and education fields have been starting to pay attention to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ever since 2019, and the following two events would affirm this tendency. Firstly, the committee of the iF Design Award triggered to adopt SDGs as their evaluation standard. Secondly, the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings began to as-sess the performance of 768 universities from 85 countries against SDGs. This reflect a broader consideration towards sustainability has been establishing. Based on the context, this study inquired about the sustainable quality of nine educational institutions of design in China under an advisory committee perspective, which …


Immersive Learning From Basic Design For Communication Design: A Theoretical Framework, Yuan Liu, Dina Ricco, Daniela Anna Calabi Sep 2021

Immersive Learning From Basic Design For Communication Design: A Theoretical Framework, Yuan Liu, Dina Ricco, Daniela Anna Calabi

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In this paper we discuss the two changes that basic design education faced: one is the teaching need of transformation from visual to multisensory and synaesthetic communication; the other is the use of virtual environments to teach design. As an answer to the trend of constructivist learning, also in order to fulfill the need for multisensory training, the discussion of an innovative learning environment for basic design education has become essential. The problems remain, as virtual technology has limitations regarding visualizing abstract concepts. This research aims to build an immersive virtual environment to teach basic design, along with the value …


Study On The Implementation Of The Innovative Enterprise Product Design Model For Industrial Design Students, Shuo-Fang Liu, Jui-Feng Chang, Chang-Tzuoh Wu Sep 2021

Study On The Implementation Of The Innovative Enterprise Product Design Model For Industrial Design Students, Shuo-Fang Liu, Jui-Feng Chang, Chang-Tzuoh Wu

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Industrial design education often prompts students to focus on creativity and user needs, and lacks knowledge and concepts in marketing and sales. Thus, this study proposed the “Innovative Enterprise Product Design Model” and planned a teaching course to teach the theoretical knowledge and application methods of this design model. Solving the problem where students’ designs are often out of touch with the industry. This study is divided into three stages. The first stage invites industrial design students to carry out product design using this design model. The second stage invites experts to evaluate the students’ design results. For the third …


Teaching With Virtual Simulation: Is It Helpful?, Meng Yue Ding, Yi Ke Hu, Zhi Hao Kang, Yi Jia Feng Sep 2021

Teaching With Virtual Simulation: Is It Helpful?, Meng Yue Ding, Yi Ke Hu, Zhi Hao Kang, Yi Jia Feng

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A growing number of construction-related virtual simulations demonstrate the benefits of providing students with a realistic and interactive learning experience to help them develop knowledge applicable to real-world situations. Virtual simulation provides a new form of teaching for physical experiments with high complexity, safety hazards, and excessive space. This study examined a course on the construction of Chinese traditional wood architecture for students majoring in architecture and related subjects. An experimental teaching platform with virtual simulation was utilized to respond to challenges of physical experiments. A questionnaire was administered to 74 undergraduate students and three teachers, and interviews were conducted …


Framing Students’ Reflective Interactions Based On Photos, Marije Ten Brink, Frank M. Nack, Ben A.M. Schouten Sep 2021

Framing Students’ Reflective Interactions Based On Photos, Marije Ten Brink, Frank M. Nack, Ben A.M. Schouten

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Critical reflection, addressing students’ attitude, beliefs and values related to pressing topics in the world, plays a crucial role in developing ethical sensitiveness and critical design literacy in design education. Critical reflection is provoked by discussing self-made photos, as is demonstrated in the research method Photovoice. This paper considers Photovoice in design education for its ability to foster learning through self-guided critical reflective interactions with peers based on self-made photos. Research on how to support this is lacking. This paper addresses this gap by studying students engaging in self-guided Photovoice assignments. Results consist of adapted steps for Photovoice in education …


Towards Radical Synergy For More Just And Equitable Futures, Audrey Bennett, Ron Eglash, Roland Graf, Deepa Butoyila, Keesa Johnson, Jenn Low, Andréia Rocha Sep 2021

Towards Radical Synergy For More Just And Equitable Futures, Audrey Bennett, Ron Eglash, Roland Graf, Deepa Butoyila, Keesa Johnson, Jenn Low, Andréia Rocha

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Inequity and social injustice are omnipresent wicked problems, complex challenges for which there are no single solutions due to their cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary, and systemic nature. For example, the “green revolution” of the 1970s was supposed to solve world hunger. But we saw instead a rise in corporate control over agriculture (Pielke and Linner, 2019). The design of social media, widely touted as creating a harmonious global village in the 1980s, has instead partly turned into hatching grounds for a global white supremacist movement and other forms of extremism. We cannot afford to passively allow accidental synergies to create global disasters. …


Preparing To Introduce Design Thinking In Middle Schools, Michael Robert Gibson, Keith Michael Owens, Peter Hyland, Christina Donaldson Sep 2021

Preparing To Introduce Design Thinking In Middle Schools, Michael Robert Gibson, Keith Michael Owens, Peter Hyland, Christina Donaldson

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This case study critically analyses and describes knowledge gained and understandings constructed by a team of university-based design educators and researchers who engaged in the planning necessary to begin introducing specific aspects of design thinking in middle school classrooms in an Texas city of more than 140,000. (Middle schools in the U.S. typically educate students aged 11 to 14 years.) This piece articulates key insights about how and why the introduction of design thinking should be collaboratively and strategically planned if it is to function as an effective augmentation of a college preparatory curricula, and the learning experiences that constitute …


Problems In The Reform Of Design Teaching And Solutions :Taking Shandong University Of Art And Design As An Example, Lei Sun Sep 2021

Problems In The Reform Of Design Teaching And Solutions :Taking Shandong University Of Art And Design As An Example, Lei Sun

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This article takes the teaching reform of the undergraduate program in Shandong University of Art & Design as a case for study. Through surveys with students, teachers, and employers, it finds out three core challenges faced by the design majors, and proposes three correspondent solutions, namely to use “aptitude-based teaching to cultivate talents”, “learning-assisted teaching to classify the teaching system”, and “learning-promoted teaching to innovate lectures”, which lead to a philosophy for the reform, where student’s development is regarded as the very foundation of all learning, and their achievement as the orientation of all work. This article analyses the common …


Tutors’ Perspectives On Npo Collaboration In Industrial Design Education, Zeynep Yalman-Yıldırım, Gülay Hasdoğan Sep 2021

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 …


Imaginary Museums: A New Approach To The Learning And Assessment Of Design History, Benjamin Hughes, Ke Jiang Sep 2021

Imaginary Museums: A New Approach To The Learning And Assessment Of Design History, Benjamin Hughes, Ke Jiang

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This paper outlines an approach taken to re-establish the status, significance and implementation of the design history component of a practice-based undergraduate design course in China. The format for delivery and assessment were found to have stagnated into a curriculum module widely regarded as of peripheral interest. A project was undertaken to revise not only the scope of teaching material so that it was more appropriate for remote learning, but also the mode of assessment. The traditional lecture format was replaced in part by an online course, augmented by widely available video and texts. In-person teaching was switched to seminar …