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Culture As A Design "Next": Theoretical Frameworks To Guide New Design, Development, And Research Of Learning Environments, Tutaleni I. Asino, Lisa A. Giacumo, Victoria Chen

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In the design ecosystem, culture is often ignored or relegated to the periphery, perhaps because some see it as a concept that is hard to explain or completely capture. To contribute to a new direction, our paper presents a portion of an on-going study integrating and recognizing culture in the design process. We argue that the “next’” focus of design should be an inclusion of culture into design practices; an inclusion that is merged into every stage instead of being treated as an afterthought – most notably, during the evaluation stage. There exist numerous models and guides exploring the role …