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Learning spaces and social climate in architectural education: design studio vs. traditional classroom

Casakin, Hernan; Davidovitch, Nitza // 2013
This study examined social-academic climate as perceived by design students in learning spaces such as the design studio and in the architectural courses. A survey was conducted to evaluate this ...

Make space, make place, make sense

Leurs, Bas; Schelling, Jasper; Mulder, Ingrid // 2013
ts transformed their space into a place in order to enhance their sensemaking process. A three-stage model referring to ‘make space, make place, and make sense’ is motivated and elaborated upon. ...

Managing multidisciplinarity – growing future creators

Håkansson, Anders; Holmqvist, Bengt // 2013
Preparing students for real life is a main issue for education programs. At Luleå University of Technology, (LTU), this is done by a range of different course layouts and course assignments. Students ...

Merging creative design and CAD learning activities in a product design programme

O'Rourke, Pearl; O'Kane, Colm; Smith, Leslie; Ring, Michael // 2013
Traditional learning and teaching methods for creativity differ from those used in a scientific context. Although the creative process can benefit from a certain level of prescription and structural ...

Models of resilient adaptive practice

Trathen, Stephen; Varadarajan, Soumitri // 2013
This paper examines the development of the Australian graduate industrial designer in a period of significant change. It explores the mismatches between current industrial design education ...

Narrative in design development

Childs, Peter; Zhao, Ying; Grigg, Joanna // 2013
This paper describes the value of narrative used with ideation tools in aiding the rapid production of product concepts and designs for masters students of graphics, fine art, product and industrial ...

On the effectiveness of experimenting with C-K theory in design education: Analysis of process methodology, results and main lessons drawn

Blanchard, Philippe Michel; Corsi, Patrick; Christofol, Hervé; Richir, Simon // 2013
This paper experiments a transdisciplinary design innovation way in educational contexts through workshops implementing a C-K Theory-based co-evolution between Concepts and Knowledge spaces. At ...

Out of the lecture and into the studio: a new take on teaching design history

Howell, Bryan; Christensen, Kimberly // 2013
Studio-based instructional models have been a central landmark of architecture and design education for nearly 100 years. However, studio models are typically found only in courses teaching design ...

Overcoming design fixation through education and creativity methods

Howard, Thomas J.; Maier, Anja M.; Onarheim, Balder; Friis-Olivarius, Morten // 2013
This paper reports an experiment on the topic design fixation using 12 teams of masters students working on three design problems from (Jansson and Smith 1991). The objective of the experiment is to ...

People, place, process: Lessons learnt on the path to a d.school

Hillen, Véronique B; Levy, Pierre // 2013
Since 2006, Design Thinking education programs for master-level students have been developed at Ponts ParisTech, a leading French engineering school. This paper presents a longitudinal study of the ...

Perspectives in competencies-based education: a curricular experience to form a new industrial design profile

Mejia, Luis; Betancourt, Maria Clara // 2013
There is an evident gap between the quality of the design graduates and what future employers want them to do, it is understood that there is a difference between what they learn in school and what ...

Practice-oriented engineering design education - an institutional comparison

Voß, Markus; Lautner, Hans // 2013
The German education system knows two types of institutions endowed with a practice-oriented mission in tertiary education: Universities of Applied Sciences and Cooperative State Universities. ...

Product-Service systems design education and a new interdisciplinary service design graduate program

Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Sang Won; Lee, Seong Il; Kim, Kee-Ok; Kim, Myoun; Won, Jong Hoon // 2013
A Product-Service Systems (PSS) is composed of service and product elements to provide values for relevant stakeholders. PSS designing includes both service and product design aspects, but a ...

Reflection in design practice – quality assurance of practical training in product design education

Skjelbred, Bente; Berg, Arild // 2013
Students’ experiences through practical training can be used for curriculum development based on interactive research between education and work practice. To work collaboratively and reflect during ...

Reflections on the challenge of developing professional engineering designers and engineering design technologists – A New Zealand perspective

Robotham, Antony John; Raine, John Kenneth; Nates, Roy Jonathan; White, David Edward // 2013
This discussion paper reflects upon the 100+ years of experience of the authors in delivering tertiary level education to engineering designers. It compares the teaching approach taken for ...

Reflections on the use of case studies in the teaching of engineering design

Lambert, Steve; Nespoli, Oscar // 2013
Engineering design skills are critical to drive economic growth while addressing such societal issues as sustainability and innovation. To help address this need in postgraduate students – both ...

Retrospective study on teaching engineering design and product development

Lehtonen, Timo Artturi; Juuti, Tero; Rättyä, Kaisu; Vanhatalo, Mikko // 2013
A professional designer is able to make long reaching and correct conclusions from seemingly inadequate amount of information available. He/she has a comprehensive mental model on the topic in which ...

Return to the renaissance

Crisp, Alan Roy; Dale, James // 2013
Discussion was initiated and remains on-going, since a visit to the Royal Academy, by the course managers of Product Design, pertinent to the importance of ‘craft techniques’, ‘form and ...

Rhetoric and design

Ballard, Glenn; Koskela, Lauri // 2013
The relationship between rhetoric and design has been the subject of numerous scholarly publications in the last fifty years, but has not been addressed by scholars of engineering design. This paper ...

Sketchtube; integrating digital media in the education of design skills

Mulder-Nijkamp, Maaike; Eggink, Wouter // 2013
In this paper we discuss the application of new opportunities and chances of digital learning in design education by means of the implementation of a digital sketching forum into a sketching course. ...

Socio-cultural dimensions to sharpen designer’s cultural eyeglasses

van Boeijen, Annemiek // 2013
This paper answers the question, how the dimensions that have been developed by anthropologists to typify cultures, can support designers in user-centred design processes. An analysis and evaluation ...

Spaces supporting creative design work

Cannon, David; Utriainen, Tuuli Maria // 2013
Our physical and social environment — the ‘space’ we are in — clearly affects how we feel, interact, and what kinds of actions we engage in. The relationships between behaviour, mood, ...

Students practising realistic design process by collaboration of different disciplines

Huggins, Bernard James; Linda, Sara; Rane, Sham; Walle, Adam; Dougan, Chris // 2013
A pilot project was arranged between Product Design (PD) students at Glasgow Caledonian University and Engineering Design (ED) students at City University London. The assignment was to produce ...

Supplying the demand: aligning product design curricula and the professional practice of design

Spruce, Jon; Evans, Martyn David // 2013
Much research has been conducted into the content of design curricula yet limited research has been undertaken into how early career design professionals view their undergraduate studies, and in turn ...

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