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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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Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study, Marília Matos Gonçalves, Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez Jul 2013

Ufsc Design Course. A Brazilian Study, Marília Matos Gonçalves, Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez

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According to the National Survey of Students' Performance (Enade), held every three years by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, the Design course of University of Santa Catarina is now rated as second best in Brazil. The course objective is to provide facilities for the training of professionals able to operate in dynamic environments and diverse, capable of intervening in society to the criteria of innovation, environmental responsibility and entrepreneurship, offers students the mastery of techniques, methods and specific tools project. Currently the UFSC Design course works with a curriculum structure divided into three main nuclei divided as follows: Introductory, Project …

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Developing (Architectural) Design Knowledge: A Learner-Researcher Study, Tanja Golja, Lynette Schaverien Jul 2013

Developing (Architectural) Design Knowledge: A Learner-Researcher Study, Tanja Golja, Lynette Schaverien

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While design researchers use diverse approaches to study designing, non-designers face specific impediments in adopting these research approaches in their quest to gain design knowledge. Recognizing such challenges, this paper outlines how one education academic engineered a first-person methodology to investigate the nature of designing. Through undertaking a learner-researcher study in an undergraduate architectural design basics subject, learning about design through learning to design, she tracked her developing design ideas and crystallized a view of architectural designing as a three-phase heuristic for value selection: imagining possibilities, interpreting ideas to form architectural principles and distilling quality. Her subsequent small-scale test of …

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What Is Industrial Design? Providing A Guide For University Applicants, Michael Goatman, Louise Moody Jul 2013

What Is Industrial Design? Providing A Guide For University Applicants, Michael Goatman, Louise Moody

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There are currently a wide range of Higher Education Industrial Design courses available in the UK. In the present era, a wider breadth of narrative has developed within the subject, and as a result the content of industrial design educational offerings varies considerably. The paper assesses the industry view of Industrial Design as a discipline from the perspective of those employing university graduates. These views illustrate a change in the discipline, and this is considered in respect to current education practice. The choice of entry courses for the student wishing to embark on a career in the subject has also …

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Cross-Cultural Design Attitude: Open-Ended Design Solution For Welcoming The Diversity, Elena Enrica Giunta, Agnese Rebaglio Jul 2013

Cross-Cultural Design Attitude: Open-Ended Design Solution For Welcoming The Diversity, Elena Enrica Giunta, Agnese Rebaglio

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Italy draws lots of refugees from the Mediterranean regions: in 2010, Milan received more then 850 people in its welcomely Centres. Municipalities, citizens but also professionals must be involved in the collective answer to such a kind of phenomenon. The ephemeral nature of the settlement in the Centres, the precarious conditions of staying, as well as the variety of tenants’ identities (multi-ethnical and gender turns) shape a new research field of great, social, importance which challenges the designer to imagine new strategies and tactics for collective living. These reasons convinced a multi-disciplinary group (designers, social workers and environmental psychologists) to …

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From Tutor-Led To Student-Led Design Education: The Global Studio, Aysar Ghassan, Erik Bohemia Jul 2013

From Tutor-Led To Student-Led Design Education: The Global Studio, Aysar Ghassan, Erik Bohemia

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“Tutor-led” design education has been argued to be a system where lecturers are at the centre of teaching & learning activities and where educators’ tastes strongly influence students’ outcomes. Design education has also been argued not to prepare graduates for working in highly complex professional capacities synonymous with the contemporary era. We argue the role of tutors in tutor-led design education to be a factor in this. The Global Studio runs Web 2.0 enabled industry sponsored international collaborations between students. One aim is to introduce learners to “complex project situations” and consequently to prepare them for contemporary working life. It …

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Social Network As A Tool To Develop Personas For User Research: An Exercise From Design Education, Koray Gelmez, Humanur Bagli Jul 2013

Social Network As A Tool To Develop Personas For User Research: An Exercise From Design Education, Koray Gelmez, Humanur Bagli

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This study focuses on a brand new type of user research as a part of a design project conducted in 2012 Summer School Project Studio in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. Students are required to get information from an open Facebook profile by concentrating on its demographics (age, gender, and nationality), descriptive attributes, mottos, likes, dislikes, hates, beliefs, activities, work attitudes, holiday attitudes, socializations and favourite objects etc. They are expected to propose some keywords and concepts to describe the persona after learning from the Facebook profile. By depending on these keywords, they …

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The Role Of Identity Development In Design Problem-Based Learning: Essential Challenges In Sustainable Design Learning, David W. Garrett, Tracy Bhamra Jul 2013

The Role Of Identity Development In Design Problem-Based Learning: Essential Challenges In Sustainable Design Learning, David W. Garrett, Tracy Bhamra

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This study focuses on challenges students face in learning through problem-based activities, in UK higher education in design for sustainability. Social theories of learning indicate the highly significant but possibly problematic nature of such social contexts for learning, a view underlined by psychological perspectives on potentially significant aspects of the learning process. In particular, the relevant development of identity is considered to play a centrally important role in learning, including in building expertise in tackling complex design problems. A key aspect of identity theory concerns the properties of self-evaluation during meaningful activities, and this suggests an important emphasis in examining …

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From Long-Distance To No Distance: Performance-Based Long-Distance Education In Art And Design, Bo Gao Jul 2013

From Long-Distance To No Distance: Performance-Based Long-Distance Education In Art And Design, Bo Gao

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This paper is to introduce an enhanced teaching and learning experience, which brings people in different location to act in the same spectacle, a real-time building together rather than only verbal communications in front of the screen. The “e(ating) meeting – Project of the VISIT 2012” is a teaching project undertaken in the year 2010~2013, and is a cross-cultural long-distance learning and collaboration experiments between two international universities. The objectives of this collaborative project are to develop and experiment new teaching approaches and tools through an intercultural and interactive platform in art and design. This paper unfolds the process and …

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Teaching The Design Of Narrative Visualization: Using Metaphor For Financial Literacy And Decision Making, Aaron Fry, Jennifer Wilson, Carol Overby Jul 2013

Teaching The Design Of Narrative Visualization: Using Metaphor For Financial Literacy And Decision Making, Aaron Fry, Jennifer Wilson, Carol Overby

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The authors provide a scholarly definition for metaphor-rich, story-driven “narrative visualization,” and assert the importance of this methodology in contemporary design education. They propose “narrative visualization” as especially useful in promoting financial literacy: a context in which design can both facilitate understanding and possibly influence behavior. This emotionally-engaging means has the potential to affect the “System 1” intuitive decision-making processes that Kahneman and others have identified as the primary drivers of financial behavior.The case study here presents a recent design course that was customized to teach “narrative visualization” in a financial-literacy context. Student work from that course is examined through …

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Hooked On Peers’ Drawings: Learning Through The Visual Wildfire, Nina Scott Frisch Jul 2013

Hooked On Peers’ Drawings: Learning Through The Visual Wildfire, Nina Scott Frisch

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Children’s drawing activity has been theorized as traces of cognitive and biological development, with cultural variations as minor sources of visual and traceable influence. Even though present, less research has been done on documenting the social aspect of drawing; seeing drawing as visual communication between children. This aspect of drawing development, or learning, is visually traceable, but is still often neglected because children´s drawings can be seen in light of a discourse emphasizing the individual solitude and expression of the professional artist. Collection of drawings, observations and interviews took place in one elementary school art room for one academic year …

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Developing An Interdisciplinary Digital Media Studies Minor, Emilie Zaslow, Ruth D. Johnston Jul 2013

Developing An Interdisciplinary Digital Media Studies Minor, Emilie Zaslow, Ruth D. Johnston

Cornerstone 1 Reports : Expansion and Enhancements of the Thinkfinity Platform

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Blanket Statements, Issue 112, Summer 2013 Jul 2013

Blanket Statements, Issue 112, Summer 2013

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 112, Summer 2013

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Intertextuality : A Residency Project At Lingnan University 2013 = 互為文本, Chun Fai Chow, Michelle Lee, Ivy Ma Jul 2013

Intertextuality : A Residency Project At Lingnan University 2013 = 互為文本, Chun Fai Chow, Michelle Lee, Ivy Ma

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The intertextual works articulate their meanings through the process of creation but not through the artists alone. The significances and meanings of the artworks are produced by the copying and referencing of texts that already exist. Creators of these 'new' works forgo the identity as an author, the tracing of originality and the following of reading habits and traditions are to be violated. The process of reading, deciphering and judging of the artworks injects new meanings into the original texts written by the old masters; any blockages or fragmentation that happens in the process will further promote the conceptualisation and …

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The Role Of Personality And Team-Based Product Dissection On Fixation Effects, Christine A. Toh, Scarlett R. Miller, Gül E. Okudan Kremer Jul 2013

The Role Of Personality And Team-Based Product Dissection On Fixation Effects, Christine A. Toh, Scarlett R. Miller, Gül E. Okudan Kremer

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D esign fixation has been found to be complex in its definition and expression, but it plays an important role in design idea generation. Identifying the factors that influence fixation is crucial in understanding how to enhance the design process and reduce the negative effects of fixation. One way to potentially mitigate fixation is through product dissection activities since this activity has been shown to increase creativity and design space exploration in engineering design. However, product dissection has not been studied in the context of design fixation, so it is unclear if, or how, this type of activity influences fixation. …

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The Challenges Of Textile And Manufacturing Industries In Kano Metropolis, Ahmed Audu Maiyaki Jul 2013

The Challenges Of Textile And Manufacturing Industries In Kano Metropolis, Ahmed Audu Maiyaki

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Industrialization is the engine of growth in any economy because it plays an important role in the provision of employment, foreign exchange earnings and general well being of a society. However, industrial growth is moving at a very slow rate in Nigeria and particularly in Kano state. This paper aims at unveiling the causes for poor performance of textile industry in Kano Nigeria In this study two textile companies were purposively chosen to represent both the functioning and non-function textile companies. To this end, structured and unstructured interviews and also practical observation were used to collect the data. It was …

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Social Networking As A Mentoring And Engagement Tool Between Design Alumni And Early Design Students, Lisa Fontaine Jun 2013

Social Networking As A Mentoring And Engagement Tool Between Design Alumni And Early Design Students, Lisa Fontaine

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In graphic design education, there is an increased need to integrate design thinking, with less focus on the designed ‘object’ and more focus on its message. Realities of the contemporary profession mandate the development of broad thinking skills; students need to begin viewing themselves as problem-solvers first, imagemakers second. The Alumni Mentor Initiative was devised to introduce beginning graphic design students to design thinking as it manifests itself in practice. Using the LinkedIn website, 80 alumni from the university’s graphic design program were identified and asked to participate in an online mentoring program. Each was matched with one beginning student, …

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Development And Pathology Of Graphic Design In Iran, Berhrouz Foladi Jun 2013

Development And Pathology Of Graphic Design In Iran, Berhrouz Foladi

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Graphic Design is an aggregative art and has a huge function in its international field. But, in Iran there isn’t any correct understanding of that because the different branches of this amazing art has not separately been defined and utilized to make the people see and receive its effect in their life environments. The graphic designer has to be like a working machine and does work in all of the branches alone to propound the functions in society. Although the designer knows all of these branches, such as designing a logo, they are not supposed to be included in her …

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Integrating Multidisciplinary Collaboration In Undergraduate Design Education: Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth?, Katja Fleischmann Jun 2013

Integrating Multidisciplinary Collaboration In Undergraduate Design Education: Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth?, Katja Fleischmann

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Employability studies continue to highlight the fact that digital media design graduates may not be sufficiently prepared to bridge the gap between university and industry. In response, an alternative learning and teaching approach for digital media design education, the POOL Model framework, was developed and subsequently trialled at an Australian university. A broad underpinning strategy of the framework is to reflect industry practice through implementing workplace realities such as multidisciplinary teamwork. Introducing multidisciplinary collaborative practice into design education is identified as necessary; however, exactly how these collaborations can be managed at an undergraduate level is less well defined. This paper …

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Design As A Second Language. Design As A Multicultural-Multidisciplinary Space Of Integration: Challenges And Advantages Of Introducing Design To Non-Design Students, In A Second Language, In A New Cultural Context, Carlos A. Fiorentino, Andrew Van Der Ree, Lyubava Fartushenko Jun 2013

Design As A Second Language. Design As A Multicultural-Multidisciplinary Space Of Integration: Challenges And Advantages Of Introducing Design To Non-Design Students, In A Second Language, In A New Cultural Context, Carlos A. Fiorentino, Andrew Van Der Ree, Lyubava Fartushenko

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Teaching design to design-illiterate students is usually a common case for every first year class instructor at any design program. In addition to this, a particular combination of extra challenges makes Design Fundamentals at -the University of Alberta- a very special spot to learn and teach design. Most sections of this class are open to students from many other fields and levels, from psychology to engineering, and from first year students to senior students. Masters students, who usually come from various countries, are often appointed as teaching assistants as part of the graduate program experience. Some of them choose to …

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Making Scholarship: Describing The Field Of Inquiry And The Research Approach, Laila Belinda Fauske Jun 2013

Making Scholarship: Describing The Field Of Inquiry And The Research Approach, Laila Belinda Fauske

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The project described in this paper is an upcoming postdoctoral project with the aim to explore the concepts of ‘making scholarship’ and ‘doctorateness’ in the practice-based field of Art and design education. This paper will describe the field of inquiry and elaborate on self-ethnography as a research approach. Self-ethnography can be an alternative when a researcher aims to study a professional community to which he or she is already a member. ‘Doctorateness’ is a central concept in organised research education, and even though the term has its origins in the discipline-based fields of research, the concept is of great importance …

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Spatial And Service Design Meet Up At Coltivando Convivial Garden At The Politecnico Di Milano, Davide Fassi, Giuila Simeone Jun 2013

Spatial And Service Design Meet Up At Coltivando Convivial Garden At The Politecnico Di Milano, Davide Fassi, Giuila Simeone

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‘Coltivando’ is the community garden set up by the Politecnico di Milano, a collaborative project that calls for both Spatial and Product Service Design competences, developed by a team of three postgraduate students supervised by researchers and teachers from the same fields. This paper describes the process and the tools used to design this garden: from the first “design studio based” concept (November 2011), to the final solution deployment (October 2012). Both soft and hard components of the project were included in the process, starting with design for social innovation and including Participatory Action Research as a way to test …

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Branded: The Sister Arts Of Rhetoric And Design, Susanna Kelly Engbers Jun 2013

Branded: The Sister Arts Of Rhetoric And Design, Susanna Kelly Engbers

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As a professor of rhetoric at an art and design college in the United States, I am keenly interested in philosophies of design education and their relationships to philosophies of rhetorical education. Clearly teachers of rhetoric and of design have much to learn from one another, yet we rarely interact. One way in which design and rhetoric should be informing one another is through the related concepts of branding, familiar to designers; and ethos, well-known to rhetoricians. I know from faculty colleagues in design how important branding is in design curricula. Students learn the value, as Richard Buchanan puts it, …

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Beatty, Roger Dean (Sc 1039), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2013

Beatty, Roger Dean (Sc 1039), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1039. Thesis titled “Chester Cornett: A Study of the Effects of Culture Change on a Traditional Craftsman,” by Roger Dean Beatty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1975.

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Exploring Colour And Light As Dynamic Elements Of Space Through The Activities Of An International Workshop, Nada El-Khoury, Tiiu Poldma Jun 2013

Exploring Colour And Light As Dynamic Elements Of Space Through The Activities Of An International Workshop, Nada El-Khoury, Tiiu Poldma

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The ephemeral qualities of lighting are explored best as part of lived experiences. For students at the baccalaureate level, this is difficult and requires developing ideas that become realized through modelling by studying what happens when light, colour and material intersect with form. This process uses design thinking and hands-on experiences to show students how a dynamic interplay of design elements within a project occurs through learning and discussion. While creative processes require some form of abstract thinking and when ephemeral qualities aspects of light and colour contribute to the purpose for a particular use, the material aspects of a …

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Down The Rabbit Hole: A Situated Approach To Design Education That Facilitates Socially Responsible Emergent Designers, Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek, Katrina Sandbach Jun 2013

Down The Rabbit Hole: A Situated Approach To Design Education That Facilitates Socially Responsible Emergent Designers, Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek, Katrina Sandbach

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This paper is centred on the progressive curriculum and sustained positive impact of the Rabbit Hole – the University of Western Sydney's Bachelor of Design teaching studio. The award-winning Rabbit Hole is a unique learning environment, incorporating participatory design methods and a work integrated learning framework that facilitates situated learning experiences, where live projects with realworld outcomes bridge the gap between academia, community and industry. Through a series of case studies, this paper demonstrates how the Rabbit Hole utilises the transformative agency of its innovative design pedagogy to inspire and empower socially responsible emergent designers.

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Understanding The Phd By Publication, David Durling Jun 2013

Understanding The Phd By Publication, David Durling

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This case study refers to the submission of prior research for the award of PhD by Publication, and compares and contrasts this with best practice in conventional PhDs. Unlike a conventional PhD, which is usually taken at the beginning of a researcher’s career, the PhD by Publication may be taken after a lifetime of research. The regulations governing such awards vary across institutions, but the award is is often granted to very experienced research practitioners who have a track record of significant publication in their area of specialism, indeed they may already be leading authorities in their subject. There are …

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Design Minds: An Online Design Education Platform For Non-Designers To Enact Cultural Change, Christian Duell, Natalie Wright, Joana Roxburgh Jun 2013

Design Minds: An Online Design Education Platform For Non-Designers To Enact Cultural Change, Christian Duell, Natalie Wright, Joana Roxburgh

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Education in the 21st century demands a model for understanding a new culture of learning in the face of rapid change, open access data and geographical diversity. Teachers no longer need to provide the latest information because students themselves are taking an active role in peer collectives to help create it. This paper examines, through an Australian case study entitled ‘Design Minds’, the development of an online design education platform as a key initiative to enact a government priority for state-wide cultural change through design-based curriculum. Utilising digital technology to create a supportive community, ‘Design Minds’ recognises that interdisciplinary learning …

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Learning From Co-Designing, Hua Dong, Shu Yuan Jun 2013

Learning From Co-Designing, Hua Dong, Shu Yuan

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A designer-focused approach is often taken when observing co-design processes and the designers’ learning is reflected rather than the users. This study takes an all-inclusive angle in observing an inclusive design workshop which involved five professional designers, five users from a diverse backgrounds, and five design researchers. Questionnaires were distributed to the designer and user participants, before and immediately after the workshop, to gather data about their opinions on broader issues relating to inclusive design. The design researchers carried out observations during the workshop, gathering detailed notes and audio-visual data. Follow-up interviews were conducted to identify any issues relating to …

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Changing Attitudes Towards Art And Design: Activating Expectations And Design Change, Pete Quinn Davis Jun 2013

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 …

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