Visual Instruction to Enhance Teaching of Technical Subject to Design Students

Building on the assumption that the physical environment can have an influence on the creativity of designers and design students in particular, the aim of this paper is to provide theoretical propositions and evidences for this relationship. We develop various propositions about the influence of physical environments on creativity, based on eight expert interviews and supported by literature. A particular focus was given to the environments of design educational institutions. We present a summary of the main insights and visualize the developed propositions as a causal graph addressing how space influences creativity. These propositions can be regarded as a first step towards a theory of creativity-supporting learning environments and they can serve as a reference when designing or adjusting creative learning spaces.

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Entrepreneurial Mindset

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.03.312 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nusa FAIN ◽

Michel ROD ◽

Erik BOHEMIA

Keyword(s):

Influencing Factors ◽

Future Study ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Initial Study ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Teaching Approaches ◽

Approaches To Teaching ◽

Design Students ◽

Commerce Students ◽

Case Based

This paper explores the influence of teaching approaches on entrepreneurial mindset of commerce, design and engineering students across 3 universities. The research presented in this paper is an initial study within a larger project looking into building ‘entrepreneurial mindsets’ of students, and how this might be influenced by their disciplinary studies. The longitudinal survey will measure the entrepreneurial mindset of students at the start of a course and at the end. Three different approaches to teaching the courses were employed – lecture and case based, blended online and class based and fully project-based course. The entrepreneurial mindset growth was surprisingly strongest within the engineering cohort, but was closely followed by the commerce students, whereas the design students were slightly more conservative in their assessments. Future study will focus on establishing what other influencing factors beyond the teaching approaches may relate to the observed change.

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