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Changing Attitudes Towards Art And Design: Activating Expectations And Design Change, Pete Quinn Davis
Changing Attitudes Towards Art And Design: Activating Expectations And Design Change, Pete Quinn Davis
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From fashion to furniture, magazines to medical equipment, airplanes to auditoriums, design infiltrates and influences every aspect of contemporary life. But if the benefits of good design are to continue to enhance our lives practically and aesthetically then we must change our views on education for sustainable design in order to meet the greatest challenges of the 21st century. In the transdisciplinary understanding of art and design education today, sustainability issues and approaches are viewed as a complicated series of relationships, some of which go back to the early twentieth century. Art and design is a radically diversified field concerned …
Bringing Practice To The Theory: Project-Led Education In Industrial Design Engineering, Winnie Dankers, Hiske Schuurman-Hemmer, Thonie Van Den Boomgaard, Eric Lutters
Bringing Practice To The Theory: Project-Led Education In Industrial Design Engineering, Winnie Dankers, Hiske Schuurman-Hemmer, Thonie Van Den Boomgaard, Eric Lutters
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The University of Twente started an educational programme on Industrial Design Engineering in 2001. The structure of the programme builds on project-led education, mainly to immerse students quicker and more profoundly in the field of expertise they are educated in. Given the impact of educational projects of considerable scope, complexity and scale on the overall programme, adequate balancing of the learning aims and implementation of projects and courses is essential. Based on the criteria for the programme, a reference architecture is devised that guides the way in which the programme is arranged. By means of an example, depicting one of …
Technology And Design As Part Of A Public School From 1st To 10th Grade, Liv Klakegg Dahlin, Liv Oddrun Voll, Anne-Gunn Svorkmo
Technology And Design As Part Of A Public School From 1st To 10th Grade, Liv Klakegg Dahlin, Liv Oddrun Voll, Anne-Gunn Svorkmo
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Technology and Design was introduced as a multidisciplinary subject in Norwegian school in the context of the new curriculum in 2006. The topic should be a collaborative effort between the subjects of Science, Arts and Crafts, and Mathematics. In working with Technology and Design students develop a composite competence on product, process and context that we call Technology and Design expertise. There has been, and still remains, challenges associated with practicing the subject Technology and Design. The complex and many-facetted areas of expertise cause teachers within the traditional school subjects to experience the subject as strange, and it's challenging to …
From Teaching Sustainable Product Design To Teaching Sustainable Behaviour Design, Johannes Zachrisson Daae, Casper Boks
From Teaching Sustainable Product Design To Teaching Sustainable Behaviour Design, Johannes Zachrisson Daae, Casper Boks
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Traditionally, sustainable product design research and education has been focused on manufacturing and end-of-life aspects With a new found focus on the use stage, as in the research area of Design for Sustainable Behaviour (DfSB), a better understanding of how a focus on behavioural aspects can reduce life cycle impacts has emerged. Preliminary findings from on-going DfSB research were used as basis for the development of a method to guide designers in selecting promising design principles that can contribute to change user behaviour into more environmentally friendly patterns. This method is presented, and experiences with using the booklet in a …
An Exploration Of Design Thinking Across Educational Domains, Demelza Cusens, Hugh Byrd
An Exploration Of Design Thinking Across Educational Domains, Demelza Cusens, Hugh Byrd
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To teach design effectively foundational design thinking needs to be understood. Treating the design process as a mysterious mental talent provides little scope for teaching the subject. This study explores the origin of designs and how experience impacts the sophistication of design ideas across educational domains. Secondary and tertiary students were given a common architectural brief and students’ outcomes were compared and contrasted to seek commonalities or differences in their approaches to solving design problems. Additionally, interviews were conducted with participants and a panel of design experts to further explore the students’ design practices. The results provide insight into design …
Hcid: Who Is An Interaction Designer?, Alma Leora Culén, Joshi Govind Suhas, Atif Abdelhakeem
Hcid: Who Is An Interaction Designer?, Alma Leora Culén, Joshi Govind Suhas, Atif Abdelhakeem
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The development of technology with all its ubiquity and pervasiveness provides new opportunities and new challenges for the interaction design practitioners, both those coming from the design tradition and computer science tradition. An increased level of problem solving and creative thinking is needed when designing for interactions with new technology. In order to develop the skills and methods for dealing with increased complexity and connectedness of technology, human computer interaction design (HCID) education needs to embrace to a larger extent design practices and design thinking. This paper aims to answer two main questions: 1) why is it necessary to teach …
Design: The Continuous Construction Of Competences, Alexandra Cruchinho, Graça Guedes
Design: The Continuous Construction Of Competences, Alexandra Cruchinho, Graça Guedes
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This article concerns high education curricula and training of designers. The key question considered by Design teachers and explored in this article is: How can we supply designers with useful and essential skills through training that will allow them to effectively respond to the needs of business environment? To answer this question we present the results of a research designed to focus on market and business needs of design competences, and expectations about designer’s performances. We intended to provide further information and discuss the curricula in design higher education. Finally we present a model that allows higher education institutions to …
Undergraduate Design Studio Task To Internalize Learner Locus Of Control, Charles Cox, Géza Fischl
Undergraduate Design Studio Task To Internalize Learner Locus Of Control, Charles Cox, Géza Fischl
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Designers intentionally influence events and outcomes, making an internal locus of control (LOC) desirable for them to have. Recently, engineering programs have provided more opportunities for design in their undergraduate programs than in the past, but these do not attend to learners’ LOC. Because undergraduate learners with a high external LOC can enter these programs, it makes sense to attempt instructional interventions that could help these learners to internalize their LOC. Here, an intervention for internalizing LOC was piloted using a design task in an undergraduate engineering design studio. This was an innovative application of educational psychology constructs to engineering …
Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal
Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal
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Since 1994, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Design/Education (LIDE) has been cataloguing works that report experiences, graduation projects and postgraduate researches focusing on the teaching of Design and Design in Education. This paper gathers a collection of the main projects developed in LIDE since its creation and that integrate the research directory of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development –CNPq, with the aim to make available to academia and society a vision about researches dealing with Education in Design and Design on Education. Those are broad research fields; still few explored and, incidentally, that have been objects of research …
Learning Problems And Resources Usage Of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students In Studio Courses, Wenzhi Chen, Hsien-Hui Tang
Learning Problems And Resources Usage Of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students In Studio Courses, Wenzhi Chen, Hsien-Hui Tang
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Design students face certain learning problems and difficulties as they explore the design problems space. The purpose of this study is to understand those learning problems and the resources that undergraduate industrial design students need in studio courses. To collect the data, a questionnaire was designed according to the preliminary studies. A total of 334 students from 4 Taiwanese universities participated in the survey. The results demonstrated that the most difficult design tasks for students included concept generation, design presentation and design decision. The main problems that the students experienced included the cost issue in design presentation, time pressure in …
Inspiring And Investigating Imaginative Capability Of Design College Student, Hsiang-Tang Chang, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Tung-I Lin
Inspiring And Investigating Imaginative Capability Of Design College Student, Hsiang-Tang Chang, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Tung-I Lin
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One’s imaginative capability will influence his/her design idea and final product, therefore the imaginative capability is important to a designer. People always considered that the imaginative capability is natural endowment; however, the authors considered that it could be inspired by the family and school education. The purpose of this research was to find a feasible way to inspire students' imaginative capability, and investigate the relationship between the students' imaginative capability to their family education and school education respectively through a devised experimental teaching. For this purpose, some reasonable influential factors of imaginative capability were selected by references and experts’ suggestions, …
Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall
Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall
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The rationale behind mass-industrialization, now normalized, is embodied uncritically in the practice of many new designers. What if the industrial past could be explored and experienced as a foreign territory, providing a vantage point from which to critically evaluate contemporary design practices and define new paths? Young American designers are searching for alternate roles, and ways to design and live. Many experiment with models from elsewhere, places where new futures are growing from useful pre-industrial remnants. America, a country synonymous with industrialization, has no such resources upon which to build new practices, and slowing while creating value through quality is …
Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte
Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte
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Teaching sustainability is not solely a question of providing relevant information; it is foremost about training students to meet the challenges of tomorrow. In design this can mean to shift the focus from material, form and function towards systems, correlation and time – a process supported both by how we teach as well as what we teach. But pedagogy still seems to be treated like a poor cousin to the more important design knowledge. This made us curious about the correlation between pedagogy and teaching design for sustainable change. By applying a study of Eilam and Trop (2011) onto the …
Designing A Creativity Training Plan For Companies, Marita Canina, Elisabetta Coccioni, Laura Anselmi, Stefania Palmieri
Designing A Creativity Training Plan For Companies, Marita Canina, Elisabetta Coccioni, Laura Anselmi, Stefania Palmieri
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It is widely recognized that training in creative techniques enhances competitiveness and efficiency of the company production process. Relying on the idea that creativity is the basis for innovation, to learn and manage creativity techniques becomes strategic to meet a company’s need for innovation. Hollanders and van Cruysen's system of indicators (2009), based on the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), is aimed at quantifying creativity and design, and the role of professional training is key for a company’s success on the market. This paper presents a methodology for drafting a training plan for companies. The methodology counts on two approaches similar …
A Case Study On Action Research: Barri Gòtic Barcelona, Xavi Camino, Albert Fuster
A Case Study On Action Research: Barri Gòtic Barcelona, Xavi Camino, Albert Fuster
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The Design Degree program at Elisava Escuela Superior de Diseño e Ingeniería de Barcelona includes tools and mechanisms to focus students on the users, the social context and communication. The idea behind this is that greater density should be sought in the projects and a fabric of relationships should be generated in a social and geographical environment ranging from the most local to the most global. As part of its “Products, context and user” subject, Elisava planned action research during the 2010-11 academic year between a group of graphic design students and the members of the 'Asociación de vecinos del …
Design Education And Non-Eu Students: Shifts In Teaching Practice, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond
Design Education And Non-Eu Students: Shifts In Teaching Practice, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond
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The number of UK international HE students has gradually increased over the last decade, in particular the number of non-EU Chinese and Indian students. This influx has resulted in the recognition that exposure to an unfamiliar pedagogical cultural habitus can cause problems, often compounded by language problems. This paper outlines the response of an MA teaching team at Coventry University to misconceptions that a cohort of Chinese and Indian students expressed during a research methods module. This was evidenced by uncertainty as to what they were expected to produce in terms of a research proposal, as the extension of the …
Developing Interactive Learning Environments To Promote Scaffolding And Reflection: A Look At The Digital Process Book For Design Studio Education And Comparisons To K12 Science Education Applications, Lori Brunner Stone, Abigail Lundquist, Stefan Ganchev
Developing Interactive Learning Environments To Promote Scaffolding And Reflection: A Look At The Digital Process Book For Design Studio Education And Comparisons To K12 Science Education Applications, Lori Brunner Stone, Abigail Lundquist, Stefan Ganchev
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The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and rationale for the design of the Digital Process Book (DPB) learning tool for design education at the University level and discuss the similarities with applications to learning tools in K12 science education. The DPB is an interactive learning environment that is intended to promote reflection throughout a student’s design process, as well as integrate important scaffolding elements in the system that supplements the traditional inperson contact between a student and an instructor. It is based on tenets of Cognitive Load Theory, which argues that learners are not able to …
Making, Using And Interpreting Design Probes: How Subjective Is Participation?, Cara Broadley, Marianne Mcara
Making, Using And Interpreting Design Probes: How Subjective Is Participation?, Cara Broadley, Marianne Mcara
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The wealth of participatory methods in human-centred design adheres to the notion of a democratic process and solutions that respond to the experiences and needs of users and stakeholders. However, as human-centred design philosophies permeate the landscape of design education and research, the designer’s role as both an objective facilitator and creative decision-maker suggests their impact upon stages of data collection and analysis. This paper advocates tools and techniques to support design students in initiating user engagement and insight-gathering whilst simultaneously recognising and utilising their own subjective experiences and knowledge. Drawing comparisons between our practice-led masters and PhD research, we …
Mind The Gap: An Evaluation Of Joint Development Practice Between Fe And He Tutors Within Art And Design, Samantha Broadhead, Sue Garland
Mind The Gap: An Evaluation Of Joint Development Practice Between Fe And He Tutors Within Art And Design, Samantha Broadhead, Sue Garland
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An English art and design college was the setting for this project which aimed to improve the transition of Access students into design Higher Education (HE). The Access course is made up of non-traditional, mature students who may have no previous formal qualifications. They come from diverse backgrounds, ethnicities and nationalities; often overcoming barriers to education in order to fulfil their ambitions to study on a design degree. Previous research had discovered that Access students were susceptible to dropping out during the first year of their degrees. In order to improve the critical thinking and resilience of Access students staff …
Examining The Textile Design Creative Practice Research-Teaching Nexus, Helena Britt
Examining The Textile Design Creative Practice Research-Teaching Nexus, Helena Britt
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Due to the nature of higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) educators often operate under pressure. This can be connected to requirements to undertake research and produce outputs, linked to funding awarded to HE institutions (HEIs). Approaches to research that utilise professional and or creative practice are adopted and formulated, prompting use of terms such as ‘practice-led’ and ‘practicebased’. Variation in opinion exists regarding research and creative practice by academic staff and within HEIs. The positive impact that educator research and or creative practice bring to the educational environment, learning and teaching has been recognised. Textile design exists …
Visual Grammar: A Literature Review, Karen Brænne
Visual Grammar: A Literature Review, Karen Brænne
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Based on a database query and a manual search of Nordic literature about visual grammar, this article provides an overview analysis of six Norwegian contributions. The question in mind during this analysis concerns how the current academic theory of visual grammar is presented, and in particular, its purpose, the way it is systematized, its degree of theoretical discussion and its view of knowledge. In different ways, these contributions have an art- and/or design educational purpose. From this overview analysis, three elected topics were discussed: The degree of systematic and schematic representation, the discussion of the origin and construction of visual …
Student Goes On A Journey; Stranger Rides Into To The Classroom: Narratives And The Instructor In The Design Studio, Elizabeth Boling, Martin A. Siegel, Kennon M. Smith, Patrick Parrish
Student Goes On A Journey; Stranger Rides Into To The Classroom: Narratives And The Instructor In The Design Studio, Elizabeth Boling, Martin A. Siegel, Kennon M. Smith, Patrick Parrish
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Enthusiasm is growing in non-traditional environments for teaching design by adapting knowledge and approaches from studio pedagogy, described as a “signature pedagogy” by Shulman in 2005. Meanwhile, those in fields where some variation of studio pedagogy have been used for decades are engaged in addressing some of its experienced shortcomings. Within this landscape of change, the authors have been engaged in study of their own studio-based courses, (interior design, instructional design, and interaction/experience design), reflecting on how this form of pedagogy is contributing to students’ development as designers. In this study we consider the role of the instructor in the …
Ecological Literacy In Design Education: A Foundation For Sustainable Design, Joanna Boehnert
Ecological Literacy In Design Education: A Foundation For Sustainable Design, Joanna Boehnert
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Responsible design in an era of scarcity and risk associated with environmental problems must be ecologically informed. Ecological literacy is necessary in order to both understand the nature of environmental problems and to respond effectively by designing sustainable ways of living. Embedding ecological literacy into design education is happening at the most progressive institutions – and yet for many others, sustainability education is still virtually absent from the curriculum. Progress is slow despite the fact that natural scientists warn that risks will escalate if we do not take dramatic action. Ecological literacy is a severe challenge as it disrupts educational …
Methodological Foundations Of Design Pedagogy: The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning In Design, Nancy Blossom, Isil Oygur, Elizabeth Payne Tofte
Methodological Foundations Of Design Pedagogy: The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning In Design, Nancy Blossom, Isil Oygur, Elizabeth Payne Tofte
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Design as a discipline has been discussing its body of knowledge from different perspectives. An area that will bring new insights to such discussion is a better understanding of how the knowledge in teaching has been constructed and expanded. Using Maryellen Weimer's perspective and classification scheme on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), this study aims to descriptively analyze the disciplinary pedagogy in design. The content of 174 pedagogical articles published from 1999 to 2010 in three design journals were analyzed. Findings show that in design, experience-based and research-based approaches to SoTL have almost equal significance. The plurality in …
Interdisciplinary Connections Between Health Care And Design – A Case Study In A Psychogeriatric Ward In Norway, Arild Berg, Tore Gulden
Interdisciplinary Connections Between Health Care And Design – A Case Study In A Psychogeriatric Ward In Norway, Arild Berg, Tore Gulden
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Interdisciplinary communication can contribute to the development of a sustainable environment. The promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration among specialists and with people in general is an objective in design education described in the second cycle of higher education in the Bologna process. This article introduces a case study of a creative process initiated to explore how the use of material and visual aesthetics contribute to create a health promoting environment. Health professionals were invited into a process of materializing suitable art objects for a geriatric ward in mental health care. A participatory design process illuminated different intentions from the participants and …
I “Like” Design: Participatory Web Sites And Design Lessons For The Masses, Mary Anne Beecher
I “Like” Design: Participatory Web Sites And Design Lessons For The Masses, Mary Anne Beecher
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In North America, published advice literature and design-based television and radio programming served as prominent vehicles for communicating lessons about what or what not to do when making their own interior design decisions to the general public in the twentieth century. This passive approach to teaching the lessons of design has been supplemented in recent years by a more interactive model: the participatory web site. This research is a qualitative analysis of social media platforms, independent web sites and blogs that monitor and promote new contemporary works from around the world and this paper focuses on the content of four: …
The Introduction Of New Technologies In Design: A Brazilian Perspective, Denise Silva Batista, Priscilla Streit, Sydney Fernandes Freitas
The Introduction Of New Technologies In Design: A Brazilian Perspective, Denise Silva Batista, Priscilla Streit, Sydney Fernandes Freitas
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Design as a field of developing new products and interfaces has been following some technological innovations, such as the appearance of new software and tools that allow the product designer perform various tasks such as product analysis. Today there are new challenges to the design field, such as continuous learning and operation of computerized equipment. The objective of this paper is to show how new technologies are related to the development process of product design by Brazilian designers.
Constitutive And Regulating Modes Of Learning In Creative Design Education, Elena Bartomeu Magaña, Octavi Rofes Baron
Constitutive And Regulating Modes Of Learning In Creative Design Education, Elena Bartomeu Magaña, Octavi Rofes Baron
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The main aim of this research to analyse the learning process in order to recognize the characteristics currently associated with creating and/or creative students profiles. This paper focuses not much on the psychology of individuals as on the learning process as an intersubjective network of social relations. The theoretical framework considers holistic judgement and arithmetic assessment as evaluation modes and the relevance of fiction within the learning process. With these referents we have developed a polarized parametric system as a framework for mapping learning practices and teaching strategies. On one side we consider the actions related to the constitution of …
So What Do Design Students Really Think? Exploring Perceptions Of Learning Landscapes, Louise Barbour, Lindy Osborne, Glenda Caldwell
So What Do Design Students Really Think? Exploring Perceptions Of Learning Landscapes, Louise Barbour, Lindy Osborne, Glenda Caldwell
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This paper investigates learning environments from the view of the key users - students. Recent literature on designing Learning Landscapes indicates a near absence of the student voice, assuming that the majority of students are either uninterested or unable to express what they want or need, in a learning environment. The focus of this research is to reveal Architecture and Fashion Design students’ perceptions of their learning environments. Furthermore, this study questions the appropriateness of usual design of learning spaces for Design students, or if the environment needs to be specifically catered for the learning of different disciplines of Design, …
Connecting For Impact: Multidisciplinary Approaches To Innovation In Small To Medium Sized Enterprises (Smes), Marc Bailey, Neil Smith, Mersha Aftab
Connecting For Impact: Multidisciplinary Approaches To Innovation In Small To Medium Sized Enterprises (Smes), Marc Bailey, Neil Smith, Mersha Aftab
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This paper reveals the methodology developed and adopted by groups of Multidisciplinary Design Innovation Masters students whilst working on projects with regional Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SME’s). It exposes an eight-stage approach and shows how the creation of a ‘problem-space tapestry’ acts as a mediator between different disciplinary approaches. The authors used a combinationof observation, interview, post project-analysis and auto ethnographic reflection in order to uncover this process and to draw conclusions about the conditions that are necessary to support university based multidisciplinary design-led innovation projects of this type.