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Framing Research Assistants’ Pedagogical Roles In Design Studio Courses: Initial Findings, Koray Gelmez, Pelin Efilti, Enver Tatlısu, Tuğçe Ecem Tüfek, Onur Yılmaz
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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 …
Ten Scenarios For The Future Of Design Education A Critical Literature Review And Reflection To Map Scenarios On A Macro, Meso, And Micro Level:, Lore Brosens, Johanna Renny Octavia, Annelies Raes, Marina Emmanouil
Ten Scenarios For The Future Of Design Education A Critical Literature Review And Reflection To Map Scenarios On A Macro, Meso, And Micro Level:, Lore Brosens, Johanna Renny Octavia, Annelies Raes, Marina Emmanouil
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There is a shared understanding that design educations’ conventional approaches need to be challenged, however, most studies only present research on a micro level, that is, discusses innovations on a single course and neglect a holistic and strategic revision of design education including of the meso and macro levels. Therefore, this study adds to the discussion by presenting a critical literature review that reflects on previously con-ducted systematic reviews and focus groups. The outcome of this procedure are ten scenarios that show possibilities for the future of design education mapped on a mac-ro, meso, and micro framework. It was found …
A Format To Bridge The Transition From University To Work: Insights From The Product-Service System Design Tour Development:, Andrea Taverna, Daniela De Sainz Molestina
A Format To Bridge The Transition From University To Work: Insights From The Product-Service System Design Tour Development:, Andrea Taverna, Daniela De Sainz Molestina
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The last decades have been of significant growth for the Service Design discipline. For supporting students in understanding the multifaceted profile of the Service Designer, academia needs to reflect on how this evolution affects the educational setting as Service Design methods are now applied in different contexts to face complex societal and business challenges. This paper explores how university-industry collaboration in extracurricular activities might support students in understanding the role of the Service Designer in practice. An extracurricular activity in the format of a digital event—the PSSD Tour—addresses this inquiry by involving companies and students in conversations to explore the …
Research On A Green Design Course In Industrial Design, Lu-Ting Xia, Chun-Heng Ho, Xing-Min Lin
Research On A Green Design Course In Industrial Design, Lu-Ting Xia, Chun-Heng Ho, Xing-Min Lin
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While improving people's living standards, the development and progress of science and technology have come with a series of challenges, such as resource depletion, environmental pollution, species extinction, and climate change resulting from global warming. As a demand for sustainable development in society, "Green Design" is expected to continue to be the focus of industrial design education in the 21st century. In this pa-per, 212 students from Zhejiang Gongshang University were selected as objects to car-ry out relevant research through experimental design. As indicated by the results, 1. Green design course exerts a significantly different influence on environmental percep-tion in …
Critical Design Literacy Through Reflection In Design, Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus
Critical Design Literacy Through Reflection In Design, Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus
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This paper discusses a conceptual review of three frameworks for students’ reflection in general design education. The frameworks were selected for their different focus of attention on the students’ engagement with design products and environmental impacts. The review results indicated that the focus of attention had affected the topics of the questions for reflection; the questions of how related to product design, the questions of why related to environmental impacts and question of what related to plural solutions to challenges in both product design and environments. The paper discuss how researcher, teacher and students have different perspectives on whether these …
Exploring The Experiential Reading Differences Between Visual And Written Research Papers, Bryan Howell, Asa Jackson, Henry Lee, Julienne Devita, Rebekah Rawlings
Exploring The Experiential Reading Differences Between Visual And Written Research Papers, Bryan Howell, Asa Jackson, Henry Lee, Julienne Devita, Rebekah Rawlings
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Visual or pictorial research papers have emerged in recent years in academic conferences as a non-written archival contribution. Dual Coding Theory teaches us that visual knowledge is distinct from written knowledge and is arguably a universal language (Dreyfuss, 1984), with the ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency (Tufte, 2001). This study explores the reading experience differences between a visual and written research paper containing identical content from design, engineering, and business disciplines. Reading experiences were assessed using a ‘think, feel, and do’ survey, and comprehension was assessed with a quiz. Participants tracked time spent reading and …
Design For Justice Lab: Interdisciplinarity In Times Of Virtual Education, Santiago De Francisco Vela, Laura Guzman-Abello, Santiago Pardo Rodríguez
Design For Justice Lab: Interdisciplinarity In Times Of Virtual Education, Santiago De Francisco Vela, Laura Guzman-Abello, Santiago Pardo Rodríguez
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There is a growing interest in the formation of interdisciplinary competencies focused on issues of access to justice. The Design for Justice Lab is a bet between the Schools of Law, Design, and Engineering of Universidad de los Andes to promote challenge-based learning by articulating knowledge among multiple disciplines. The Lab has had five cohorts, of which two have been in classroom mode, and three have been in virtual mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following document presents the opportunities and challenges of developing interdisciplinary courses with courts, judges, and administrative organizations to improve access to justice in Colombia. …
Measuring The Impact Of Integrating Human-Centered Design In Existing Higher Education Courses, Saadeddine Shehab, Carol Guo
Measuring The Impact Of Integrating Human-Centered Design In Existing Higher Education Courses, Saadeddine Shehab, Carol Guo
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The purpose of this research is to describe the development of a survey that can be used to measure the impact of integrating Human-Centered Design (HCD) on students’ knowledge of performing its processes in existing higher education courses. The survey was developed based on a research-based HCD taxonomy that outlines the design spaces, the processes, and practices that define what it means for students to implement HCD within the context of k-12 or higher education settings. The survey consisted of 23 items and was pilot tested with 46 students. Validity and reliability analyses were conducted, and the survey items were …
Systemic Design Education In Interdisciplinary Environments: Enhancing A Co-Disciplinary Approach Towards Circular Economy, Asja Aulisio, Amina Pereno, Fabiana Rovera, Silvia Barbero
Systemic Design Education In Interdisciplinary Environments: Enhancing A Co-Disciplinary Approach Towards Circular Economy, Asja Aulisio, Amina Pereno, Fabiana Rovera, Silvia Barbero
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The transition of our linear economic models towards a Circular Economy is perceived as a pressing need at European level. A growing body of literature highlights the demand for new skills to facilitate this transition: more than new professions, it is about specific profes-sional skills for circular businesses. The European Erasmus+ project MULTITRACES falls within this scenario and is based on the co-creation of a multidisciplinary online training pro-gramme that involved Systemic Design in collaboration with other scientific and economic disciplines. The learning process focused on the acquisition of both hard and soft skills rele-vant to the Circular Economy in …
Collaboration Practices In Industrial Design Education: The Case Of Metu From A Historical Perspective, 1981-2021, Naz A G Z Börekçi, Gülay Hasdoğan, Fatma Korkut
Collaboration Practices In Industrial Design Education: The Case Of Metu From A Historical Perspective, 1981-2021, Naz A G Z Börekçi, Gülay Hasdoğan, Fatma Korkut
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METU Industrial Design Department, as one of the leading educational institutions in Turkey, has more than 20 years of experience in collaboration projects with external partners. Collaboration with external partners has been a well-established instrument in design studio pedagogy at the undergraduate level in particular. Whether and in which ways the collaboration schemes, the collaborators, their goals and roles have evolved in time received relatively little attention in literature. This paper reviews the collaboration practices of the Department from a historical perspective with cross-references to the local context, identifying the internal and external factors that shaped the design education and …
Research On China's Industrial Design Education From The Perspective Of National Policy, Yun Fan, Jianglong Yu, Yang Zhang, Erik Bohemia
Research On China's Industrial Design Education From The Perspective Of National Policy, Yun Fan, Jianglong Yu, Yang Zhang, Erik Bohemia
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An increasing number of countries including China have incorporated industrial design development into their national development strategies. However, China hasn’t real-ized the process of industrial revolution in a real sense yet for most of its industrial manufacturing industry lacks innovation ability and still relies on cheap labour to get profits. In this context, industrial design has become the main force to promote Chi-na’s industrial structure adjustment and innovative talents are the core driving force; government plays a vital role in the national education development orientation and talent training. This paper takes the development of Chinese industrial design educa-tion in colleges …
Encountering Development In Social Design Education, Lesley-Ann Noel
Encountering Development In Social Design Education, Lesley-Ann Noel
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Design for social good is an area of design in which designers focus on social problems. One way of teaching this type of content is through classes with an international component that mimics an international development project, where students work as a consulting team for an organization in a developing country. However, this type of class sometimes replicates problematic structures in international development such as neocolonialism, the perception that knowledge comes from the Global North. This paper details a workshop that was created to disrupt the negative narratives in this kind of global social design project, such as the design …
Designing Criteria For Developing Educational Multimedia Games, Chaitanya Solanki, Deepak John Mathew
Designing Criteria For Developing Educational Multimedia Games, Chaitanya Solanki, Deepak John Mathew
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Increasing research is being done into the relationship between learning and games in recent years. Player engagement and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation have shown to be pertinent in improving the quality of knowledge retention in game-based learning environments. Similarly, the use of multimedia in game-based learning environments has also shown to have significant potential for effective learning; however, it is unclear whether a generalized criterion can be designed for it. This work presents a review of theories and guidelines that pertain to learning environments, game design, and multimedia learning, in an effort to distill the key elements which can help develop design …
Different Ideas, Lots Of Ideas: A Design Course That Enhances The Creative Abilities Of College Students, Jody Nyboer, Brad Hokanson
Different Ideas, Lots Of Ideas: A Design Course That Enhances The Creative Abilities Of College Students, Jody Nyboer, Brad Hokanson
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Creative thinking is the ability to generate a wide and detailed range of responses to a given stimulus. It is not a fixed skill; it can be improved through practice. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a design course that fosters these abilities. The challenge-based course utilizes a generative learning approach. Students are given a series of assignments that prompt them to ‘do some-thing differently’ (i.e., eat something different). In their quest towards designing unique solutions, the students are forced to define the contextual meaning of each challenge, and to question how cultural, social, and personal norms limit their ideas. The …
Doing Research In Design: Inquiry Of The Key Competences Needed To Integrate Research In Design Practice, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer, Julia Pintsuk-Christof
Doing Research In Design: Inquiry Of The Key Competences Needed To Integrate Research In Design Practice, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer, Julia Pintsuk-Christof
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Over the last decades, design research and design practice have become intertwined in a new way and design study programmes have to react to these changes, providing students with the ability to link their creative practice with scientific research. Design education has to develop solutions for this new demand and support these profound changes of the discipline itself by addressing these issues from the very beginning of design education on, the BA-level. In order to better understand what the problems are when carrying out research in design, this paper aims to contribute to the topic of the integration of research …
Reflections On Shared Mood Boards: Examining Craft-Education Students’ Conceptual Design, Anniliina Omwami, Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen
Reflections On Shared Mood Boards: Examining Craft-Education Students’ Conceptual Design, Anniliina Omwami, Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen
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This study examines what kind of different meanings craft-education students give to collaboratively created mood boards. As part of their compulsory studies, 11 craft-education students from a Finnish university were assigned to develop shared mood boards in team design sessions. After creating the mood board, each student was instructed to design an outfit utilising the team’s mood board. The data (i.e., video-recorded interviews, photographs of the students’ written or drawn material, teams’ mood boards, and participants’ idea-books) was analysed qualitatively. The results indicated that the meaning came from the active role the mood board played in anchoring idea development and …