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Creativity In The Subject Art And Crafts: The Weak Link Between Learning And Assessment, Eva Lutnæs Aug 2013

Creativity In The Subject Art And Crafts: The Weak Link Between Learning And Assessment, Eva Lutnæs

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This paper explores the assessment of creativity in the Norwegian school subject Art and Crafts. Creativity, or its sibling, originality is frequently used as an assessment criterion in assignments given to pupils at the level of lower secondary education. Written assessment criteria contribute to the public face of the subject, revealing core values to pupils, parents, headmasters and politicians. I have studied the assessment repertoire of teachers when negotiating final grades and legitimising their assessment practice in interviews.The teachers struggle to find words to describe what makes pupils’ design creative or original. Creativity seems to be something that just happens …

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Art And Design Schools In Transition: The Uncertain Future Of The Workshop Model, Martin Egge Lundell Aug 2013

Art And Design Schools In Transition: The Uncertain Future Of The Workshop Model, Martin Egge Lundell

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Recent reforms in higher education promote standardization and comparability. However, the academic disciplines set the standard that the art and design schools are expected to adapt to. This new and more theoretical approach can come in direct conflict with the traditional way of teaching at the art and design schools. These schools have traditionally been teaching in accordance with a workshop-oriented method, where theory is more related to and part of practice than in the academic sphere.

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Rethinking Pedagogy For Iterative Design Process Learning And Teaching, Jennifer Loy, Samuel Canning Aug 2013

Rethinking Pedagogy For Iterative Design Process Learning And Teaching, Jennifer Loy, Samuel Canning

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Product Design as an academic discipline is a relative newcomer to higher education. As a result it has had to adapt to the teaching practices and organisation already in place in Universities. However, with the viability of the current business model of higher education under threat from economic pressures, the dominance of established practice could conceivably be challenged, suggesting the time is right for a review of Product Design education as it operates within academia. Product Design educators need to focus on developing an innovative, practical approach to the organisation of learning based on sound design practice-based principles and provide …

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Normal Creativity: What 1,038 T-Shirts Can Tell You About Design Education, Peter Lloyd, Derek Jones Aug 2013

Normal Creativity: What 1,038 T-Shirts Can Tell You About Design Education, Peter Lloyd, Derek Jones

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The study of creativity in design has tended to emphasise its value, scarcity, and location in the individual designer rather than in choices made by a consuming public in the context of a wider culture. This paper, in presenting and developing a view of creativity in design as a normal concept, will present initial results from a study of 1038 student design assignments obtained from a distance-learning course in Design Thinking from The Open University in the UK. We show how ‘normal’ distributions of design outputs can be contived from a structured design process and argue that the creativity that …

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A Preliminary Study On Time Management In Undergraduate Industrial Design Students, Li-Hwa Lin, Wenzhi Chen Aug 2013

A Preliminary Study On Time Management In Undergraduate Industrial Design Students, Li-Hwa Lin, Wenzhi Chen

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Time management is one of the most important factors affecting the learning process and outcome. The purpose of this study aims to explore the time management behaviors and attitudes of undergraduate industrial design students. The study applied a time management questionnaire to 646 students, ranging from sophomores to seniors, from seven universities in Taiwan. The findings are summarized as follows: 1) Most students recognize the importance and effectiveness of time management. 2) Most students are dissatisfied with the time management and methods used. 3) Female students have better planning and control of time than male students. 4) Degree of time …

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Tell It With Colours: Case Study Of Multidisciplinary Educational Program For Non-Designer, Mari-Ann Letnes, Ingvild Olsen Olaussen Aug 2013

Tell It With Colours: Case Study Of Multidisciplinary Educational Program For Non-Designer, Mari-Ann Letnes, Ingvild Olsen Olaussen

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The aim of this paper is to identify qualities associated with pupils' interactions with aesthetic learning processes when creating multimodal texts. The study addressed the following research question: How do pupils experience and interact with the appearance of aesthetic elements when they create multimodal expression? The topic chosen is associated with an interest in children’s encounters with art and developing an understanding that will assist practitioners who work with creative processes in their daily activities to take part in teaching in schools. This facilitates the expression of creativity as well as innovation and the development of the pupils’ sensibility with …

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From Bauhaus To Desis: Exploring Solution-Focused Methodology For Social Design Education, Yanki C. Lee, Denny K L Ho Aug 2013

From Bauhaus To Desis: Exploring Solution-Focused Methodology For Social Design Education, Yanki C. Lee, Denny K L Ho

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What are the social responsibilities of design schools? In order to explore this question, we employed action research methodology. Through our on-going collaborations with different design schools, our main research goal is to investigate the social role of designers and further of design schools and the design education system as a whole. ‘Ageing in place’, the overarching concept for these labs, was to enable participants to experience and question how the life-course approach to ageing could inspire new community design processes. So far, we have engaged different types of design schools and in this paper, we reflect on one of …

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Designing Teaching—Teaching Designing: Teacher’S Guidance In A Virtual Design Studio, Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen Aug 2013

Designing Teaching—Teaching Designing: Teacher’S Guidance In A Virtual Design Studio, Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen

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This study examined pedagogical aspects of virtual designing. It focused on how an industrial design teacher organized a plastic product design course and how the teacher guided student teams’ design processes in a virtual design studio. The model of Learning by Collaborative Designing was used as a pedagogical and analytical framework. The study employed qualitative content analysis of the teacher’s notes posted to the Moodle database. The results indicated that teaching exhibited three characteristic emphases: problem driven, solution driven and procedural driven. The main part of the teacher’s notes was solution driven statements, including new information, design ideas and evaluating …

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An Effect Of Multidisciplinary Design Education: Creative Problem Solving In Collaborative Design Process, Da Eun Kwon, Sun Hee Jang Aug 2013

An Effect Of Multidisciplinary Design Education: Creative Problem Solving In Collaborative Design Process, Da Eun Kwon, Sun Hee Jang

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This study verified whether the students who received multidisciplinary education can be considered to have attained more creative problem-solving abilities than the students who majored only in design, based on their completion of a project after teaming with students from various other departments. When it is heterogeneous and in the in-depth discussion stage, the EMT (heterogeneous teams, including multidisciplinary design major) produced more creative output than the EDT (heterogeneous team, including design-only major) as a result of an experiment. Therefore we compared the creative process of the EDT and the EMT in the in-depth discussion stage of the heterogeneous groups …

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Colour And Light In Design - Levels Of Experiencing Colour And Light, Ulf Klarén, Harald Arnkil, Karin Fridell Anter Jul 2013

Colour And Light In Design - Levels Of Experiencing Colour And Light, Ulf Klarén, Harald Arnkil, Karin Fridell Anter

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In our designed culture, every environment, object and picture is analyzed from the viewpoint of colour and light. Colour and light play an important role in social life and culture. This paper springs from an epistemological project about concept formation in the field of colour and light. Based on own observations and scientific and scholarly references it presents a graphic model describing possible constituent relations between colour and light experiences. Design is the art of using knowledge – implicit or explicit – about how humans perceive, experience, and relate to the world around. In design all senses are involved, but …

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Classroom Architect: Integrating Design Thinking And Math, Jain Kim, Swee Hong David Kwek, Colin Meltzer, Pilar Wong Jul 2013

Classroom Architect: Integrating Design Thinking And Math, Jain Kim, Swee Hong David Kwek, Colin Meltzer, Pilar Wong

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Classroom Architect is a project-based curriculum that uses the principles of design thinking to review mathematical concepts, such as measurement, scale and area. The anchor task in this curriculum is to create a 3-D virtual model of the ideal classroom, based on the data the students collect. The curriculum uses design thinking as leverage to help students transfer classroom knowledge to real world problem-solving situations. Specifically, the students go through design thinking process -- user needs discovery, ideation, prototype and redesign. In each step of the process different mathematical concepts are reviewed and reinforced through their application to the task. …

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Knowledge Generation In Doctoral Design Education, Martina Maria Keitsch Jul 2013

Knowledge Generation In Doctoral Design Education, Martina Maria Keitsch

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Knowledge generation in doctoral design education and its endeavour to meet a variety of interdisciplinary issues from engineering to aesthetics, sustainability and stakeholder requirements can be labelled with what Rittel and Webber called a “wicked problem” [1]. The following article reflects on conditions, methods and challenges to combine design theory and design research practice on a doctoral level. The study case for these reflections is the PhD course, PD 8300: “Topics in design research” at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The course introduces among others a disciplinary architecture for industrial design and three theory of science philosophies related …

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Students As Choice-Makers: Developing Altered Consciousness As An Aspect Of Design And Global Citizenship Literacy, Steve Keirl, Susan V. Mclaren Jul 2013

Students As Choice-Makers: Developing Altered Consciousness As An Aspect Of Design And Global Citizenship Literacy, Steve Keirl, Susan V. Mclaren

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Choice, as an aspect of existence, may be taken for granted or it may not exist at all. Choice may be complex, simple, false, or not apparent. Choices can be quantitatively and qualitatively different. There are ironies of choice in that profusion of choice can mean confusion of choice. Equally, and perversely, those who have choices can also enjoy the privilege of not choosing – itself a choice. Design is a site of choice-making – not only within the nuances of design processes but also for the role it plays in identity formation, social being, politics, and global interactions. This …

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Multiculturalism As An Approach To Prepare Egyptian Government School Students For Microscholarship Through Art Workshop, Walaa Kassem Jul 2013

Multiculturalism As An Approach To Prepare Egyptian Government School Students For Microscholarship Through Art Workshop, Walaa Kassem

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Egypt today needs to build a modern democracy while respecting its own heritages and those of others. We should therefore invest in developing multicultural notions of peace that will help different people and nations to understand and respect each other. This would reduce conflict. Art enables students to express themselves and to convey information about their cultures. For this reason, this aspect of education may be considered to be one of the most important in promoting mutual understanding with other cultures, and achieving peace. The concepts of multiculturalism, cross-cultural empathy, awareness, responsibility, participation, personal achievement and mobility reveal to us …

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The Imaginative Approach: Characteristics Of Craft Artisans’ And Design Trainers’ In-Depth Cognitive Levels During A Design Training Program, Deny W. Junaidy, Yukari Nagai Jul 2013

The Imaginative Approach: Characteristics Of Craft Artisans’ And Design Trainers’ In-Depth Cognitive Levels During A Design Training Program, Deny W. Junaidy, Yukari Nagai

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This paper investigated and discovered the differences that exist between craft artisans’ and design trainers’ in-depth cognitive levels during the use of the imaginative approach in a design training program. We employed a concept network method based on the associative concept dictionary to extract the verbalized thoughts of four craft artisans and four design trainers. We then identified semantic relationships based on factor analysis. Our findings revealed that craft artisans tended to activate lower in-depth cognitive levels and design trainers tended to generate deeper in-depth cognitive levels. Our study demonstrated that craft artisans tended to place greater focus on aspects …

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Which Way Is Up? Space And Place In Virtual Learning Environments For Design, Derek Jones, Peter Lloyd Jul 2013

Which Way Is Up? Space And Place In Virtual Learning Environments For Design, Derek Jones, Peter Lloyd

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The role of ‘place’ in design education is essential in providing a structured learning experience that can be trusted and which allows dynamic social connections to emerge in the development of reflective practice. With increasing demand for distance and online learning resources, this paper considers how such a sense of place can be arrived at using ‘virtual architecture’. Analogies with physical architectural space – for example ‘homes’, ‘forums’, ‘studios’, ‘libraries’ can be useful, but in many ways the opportunities for design learning in virtual architecture go far beyond what is possible with physical architecture. We describe how the virtual architecture …

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Adapting The Front-End Of Innovation To Its Context: A Methodological Approach, Alexis Jacoby Jul 2013

Adapting The Front-End Of Innovation To Its Context: A Methodological Approach, Alexis Jacoby

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The Front-end of Innovation (FEI) is the innovation process phase where new products are defined prior to development. The outcome of this process is of great importance for the innovation and design phases that come after the FEI (Backman et al., 2008). The FEI is a lightweight process with a huge impact on the New Product Development (NPD) process that follows the FEI. Still, the FEI is considered a difficult to manage process, both in industry and academia. Although FEI is mainly considered a strategic process, it could benefit from a more design driven approach where divergent thinking is implemented …

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Practically Creative: The Role Of Design Thinking As An Improved Paradigm For 21st Century Art Education, Delane Ingalls Vanada Jul 2013

Practically Creative: The Role Of Design Thinking As An Improved Paradigm For 21st Century Art Education, Delane Ingalls Vanada

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Art and design education hold a unique role in preparing the kinds of innovative, balanced, synthetic creators and thinkers needed in the 21st century. This paper sheds shed light on how learner-centered art classrooms, that incorporate design thinking as a balanced process, can better develop the overall learning capacity of students. In a mash-up between mixed model research involving the impact of learner-centered pedagogies on visual art students’ balanced intelligence and reviews of literature surrounding the promotion of depth and complexity of knowledge, new conceptual frameworks are offered. Towards a vision of fostering deep, connected, and independent thinkers, the author—as …

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Wicked Futures: Metadesign, Resilience And Transformative Classrooms, Les Hooper, Sue Fraser Welch, Natalie Wright Jul 2013

Wicked Futures: Metadesign, Resilience And Transformative Classrooms, Les Hooper, Sue Fraser Welch, Natalie Wright

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This paper presents an Australian case study entitled “Designing Futures”. It examines a six month multidisciplinary design program offered by a large coeducational, inner-city state school in Queensland in 2011. The program extended an already successful and innovative school-based design curriculum and involved students in Philosophy, Science, Mathematics and English classes, as well those in Art and Design. Additionally, there were 5 full-day workshops where students combined a wide range of skills to brainstorm, design and create sustainable solutions. The design thinking used in this program was based on the concepts of metadesign, design activism and design futuring. “Designing Futures” …

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Like Or Dislike: Aesthetic Judgements On Textile Patterns, Siri Homlong Jul 2013

Like Or Dislike: Aesthetic Judgements On Textile Patterns, Siri Homlong

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In different areas of handicraft and textile production, teachers, researchers, purchasers and others have to judge products based on different factors such as function, aesthetics, taste and so on. The whole process of designing – from ideas and visions to finished product – includes aesthetic judgements: In the first planning phase, several sketches are made that can later be changed, adjusted and further developed. When a product is finished, further judgements are needed: designers and artisans evaluate the result of their efforts, teachers judge the works of pupils or students and purchasers or consumers judge the suitability of the textile …

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Teaching ‘Design Thinking’ In The Context Of Innovation Management—From Process To A Dialogue About Principles, Monika Hestad, Jamie Brassett Jul 2013

Teaching ‘Design Thinking’ In The Context Of Innovation Management—From Process To A Dialogue About Principles, Monika Hestad, Jamie Brassett

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There has been increased interest in design and ‘design thinking’ in recent times. This has led to the development of a number of interdisciplinary courses where non-designers have the opportunity to learn so-called ‘design thinking’. However, ‘design thinking’ is an ambiguous concept, which is challenging when trying to apply it in non-design learning and teaching contexts: notably, for this study, innovation management. The aim of this study has two aspects: first, a conceptual one, to articulate what ‘design thinking’ means in context of a design-driven approach to innovation management; and second, a more practical one, to consider how it could …

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Design Values, Designing Values And Valuing Designing: Three Scenarios For Values In Design Education, Gabriel Hernández Jul 2013

Design Values, Designing Values And Valuing Designing: Three Scenarios For Values In Design Education, Gabriel Hernández

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This paper discusses the importance and role of values in design education. As design scenarios constantly change, so do values pertaining to design. Design education should be ahead of those changes, however the theoretical development of design has not given values the same importance as other issues. This paper presents a theoretical framework to help understand the role of values in current design learning. It provides a general comprehension of how values affect both designing and design outcomes, thus aiming to offer arguments that strengthen the awareness and importance of ethical and moral issues in design education.

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Supporting Art And Design Student Transition Into Higher Education, Julie Haslam, W. Rod Cullen Jul 2013

Supporting Art And Design Student Transition Into Higher Education, Julie Haslam, W. Rod Cullen

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In 2007 the UK National Audit Office reported retention levels as an important factor in measuring university success. It also reported institutional variations in withdrawal themes concluding that some differences were likely to relate to how well individual institutions were helping students to deal with the challenges of study in HE. As a great deal of research has found retention to be related to student satisfaction, and this in turn to be primarily dependent upon student preparedness and their expectations many institutions have focused on enhancing this area of the student experience. This paper raises awareness of the predominant role …

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Aligning Assessment, Feedback And Action Planning For International Students, Robert Harland Jul 2013

Aligning Assessment, Feedback And Action Planning For International Students, Robert Harland

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What language should feature in assessment criteria for international students? How do students reflect on assessment feedback to allow the creation of effective action plans for future learning? Have universities adjusted their assessment methods sufficiently to match the increased demand for studying abroad? What can art and design contribute to these issues? These are some of the questions this paper seeks to address by reporting on recent pedagogic research at the School of the Arts, Loughborough University, in the United Kingdom. Language use is at the heart of this, and yet, it has been overlooked as an essential tool that …

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Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education, Jonathan Hamilton Jul 2013

Agile Thinking In Motion Graphics Practice And Its Potential For Design Education, Jonathan Hamilton

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Motion Graphics is relatively new subject and its methodologies are still being developed. There are useful lessons to be learnt from the practice in early cinema from the 1890's to the 1930's where Agile thinking was used by a number of practitioners including Fritz Lang. Recent studies in MA Motion Graphics have accessed some of this thinking incorporating them in a series of Motion Graphic tests and experiments culminating in a two minute animation “1896 Olympic Marathon”. This paper demonstrates how the project and its design methodology can contribute new knowledge for the practice and teaching of this relatively new …

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Transformation And Consequences: Do Change And Divergence In The Premises Of Bachelor Of Design Educations In Norway Today Reveal A Need Of A General Plan For Design Educations?, Målfrid Irene Hagen Jul 2013

Transformation And Consequences: Do Change And Divergence In The Premises Of Bachelor Of Design Educations In Norway Today Reveal A Need Of A General Plan For Design Educations?, Målfrid Irene Hagen

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This paper presents a small pilot study on Bachelor of Design educations which initiates a larger research on some problems within design educations and consequences of changes and school reforms in Norway during the last decades. Design programs of study are popular and the number of schools which offer these programs in Norway has increased since the 1990s. However, the premises for what a design study program should include as well as criteria for getting entrance to higher design educations have changed. This is particularly the case with newly established design educations at several University Colleges. While some study programs …

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About The Design Research Society, Christian Guellerin Jul 2013

About The Design Research Society, Christian Guellerin

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When asked on numerous occasions to comment on design and design research, I’ve always been very careful, if not harsh, with regards to certain research projects whose content and/or approach seemed to fall short on the front of the relevant things in design. My reaction hit even closer to home in France where design is absent from academic disciplines, and design research has yet to really take off. I have to admit, nonetheless, that the strides undertaken by several universities abroad and continued by DRS have swayed me into believing that there really is an area that craves further learning …

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Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice, Colin M. Gray, Martin A. Siegel Jul 2013

Sketching Design Thinking: Representations Of Design In Education And Practice, Colin M. Gray, Martin A. Siegel

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Research on design pedagogy has shown that students progress through a variety of barriers on the path to becoming a successful design practitioner, and that frameworks for explicit reflection can be beneficial to the development of design students. Schön uses the concept of reflection-on-action to describe one form of reflection on design practice, with the eventual goal of improving design processes and judgment. In this study, sketching is used as a form of reflection-on-action in a first semester intensive course in interaction design (IxD). This sketch reflects the student’s current understanding of the “whole game” or holistic view of design …

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Informal Peer Critique And The Negotiation Of Habitus In A Design Studio, Colin M. Gray Jul 2013

Informal Peer Critique And The Negotiation Of Habitus In A Design Studio, Colin M. Gray

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Critique is considered to be a central feature of design education, serving as both a structural mechanism that provides regular feedback, and a high stakes assessment tool. This study utilizes informal peer critique as a natural extension of this existing form, engaging the practice community in reflection-in-action due to the natural physical co-location of the studio environment. The purpose of this study is to gain greater understanding of the pedagogical role of informal critique in shaping design thinking and judgment, as seen through the framing of Bourdieu’s habitus. The methodology of this study is informed by a critical theory perspective, …

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Materials Selection: From Technical To Emotional Material Properties, Maria González, Javier Peña Jul 2013

Materials Selection: From Technical To Emotional Material Properties, Maria González, Javier Peña

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Materials now have the ability to transform energy, to adapt to the environment and to mimic effects only previously possible for nature. They change their properties with external stimuli and provide different perceptions depending on environmental conditions. This dynamism then converts the materials into pure mechanism, pure machine, pure image and pure feeling. The relationship of the person who works with the material, engineers, designers, etc. is no longer so direct. This connection based on experience, on a physical and perceptive knowledge of the materials is today mainly abstract. This fact hinders material selection, as it focuses on the technical …

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