The Bailey-Derek Grammar: Recording the Craft of Wire-Bending in the Trinidad Carnival

Leonardo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernelle A.A. Noel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Shape Grammar ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Trinidad Carnival

This paper presents work on the development of a shape grammar that records the dying, undocumented craft of wire-bending in the Trinidad Carnival. This craft is important for the building and continuation of cultural heritage and identity. Due to the lack of prior research in this non-Western design practice, the author conducted site visits, interviews and observations, and visually examined wire-bent artifacts in Trinidad to develop this grammar. This paper presents the materials, steps and shape rules that begin to synthesize the craft, as well as one design. This study and the resulting grammar have positive implications for design education and practice.

scholarly journals Beyond Discipline: Evolving Design Practice and Design Education in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Furniss
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Design Education ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk

Since 2000, design practice in the UK has changed dramatically. Boundaries between design disciplines have dissolved, and many contemporary design studios now defy classification. These studios are reconfiguring the design landscape, yet a uni-disciplinary structure still dominates undergraduate education. This is creating a disconnection between practice and education and posing critical questions for the current design education system. This article outlines the findings of a PhD research study exploring this disconnection, and although situated within the UK, the findings have international relevance. An initial scoping exercise draws on interviews with leading commentators from the UK design sector, examining the evolution of design practice over the past 10 years, and possible future directions for undergraduate education. Findings highlight that UK policy for creative education has placed undergraduate design courses in potential crisis. Arguably, the current university system for design education is outdated. It is now necessary to redefine the skills and processes twenty-first-century designers need. The body of the research is situated within five internationally renowned creative studios which defy classification. In-depth ethnographic studies cross-analyse the creative processes of these studios and their views on education. Findings identify key components of each studio’s processes, while also exploring studio members’ educational experiences, and reflections on future implications for pedagogy. This article argues that this growing disconnect between practice and education calls for existing pedagogic models to be challenged, proposes alternative approaches and highlights the need for policymakers, practitioners and educators to work together to best prepare young designers to meet today’s challenges.

scholarly journals Double (Hunch) Negative: Blending Practice/Research/Teaching and the Critical Imagination

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Strain ◽  
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Jose L.S. Gamez ◽  
Shai Yeshayahu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Present Design ◽  
Balance Of Forces ◽  
Continuous Field

In Duckler’s account of Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, the viewer becomes a part of the overall experience of scale, of site, and the knowledge of place. In a sense, perception, feeling, and scale hold a very complex relationship in the eye of the participant, and this brings Heizer’s earthwork closer to architecture than one might expect. This correlation between experience, scale perception, and placemaking can enrich the educational experience, thereby affecting the balance of forces that exist between academia, practice, and research. At least, that is the hunch that drew us to the 2019 Antwerp ACSA/EAAE International Teacher Conference. By discussing how a blend-ed set of practices (practice/teaching/research) enabled a mutually reinforcing dialog between the making of ideas, buildings, and landscapes, this paper will present design practice and the practice of design education as inter-related activities. Through our collaborative efforts, we have worked to make the space of inquiry a continuous field that reaches across conventional divisions between the academy and practice. Within this field, research helps ground “the hunch” while “the hunch” tempers the formality of research.Our hunch is this: that a case study of a recent design think-tank will illustrate how we see:• expertise developed in the academic environment can be incorporated into an inquisitive professional design practice;• the studio (both academic and professional) as a thinker space that should not follow a commercial agenda nor should it become a space absent of craft and speculation, urge and fascination, skill and imagination, criticality and creativity, individual formation and social consciousness.

Rediscovering Design Education as a Social Constructivist Foundation for Innovative Design Thinking

2011 ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Johann van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

Design has been described by Bruno Latour as the missing masses, and tellingly as “nowhere to be said and everywhere to be felt” (2005: 73). Traditionally, not only objects, but design’s presence in general has gone largely unnoticed by the public, but that is changing, due, in considerable part, to the ubiquitous presence of computing technology. Design, as representative of unnoticed and neutral objects, is no longer feasible, but design, as a participative presence in the lives of its users, is fast gaining ground in our complex society. Designers are no longer fully in control of the design process, meaning design practice, and as a result design education must change to adapt to the increasing pace at which different social groups are evolving new ways of communicating and living.

Histories of Design Pedagogy Virtual Special Issue for the Journal of Design History 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. e1-e24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Design History ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Pedagogy ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Practice Elements ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract ‘Histories of Design Pedagogy’ gathers material from across three decades of the Journal of Design History to juxtapose distinct investigations into design education across various geographies, contexts, relationships and methodological concerns. By isolating three overarching themes to structure twelve articles, this introduction also makes an argument towards future design pedagogy, suggesting an Urmodell, or master plan, of elements in design pedagogy that is informed by key issues debated by and through the articles presented. ‘Design Systems and Projects’ addresses the meaning and concept of design, relationships between education and industry, and design training networks. ‘Ethics and Methods’ advocates greater attention to the identities, subjectivities and roles of the designer and of the user as stakeholders in a designed system, the increasing role of research in design practice, elements that affect practice from global design to emerging technologies, and object collections research. The final theme, ‘Critical Histories and Theories’, looks to changes in design history and design studies to inform interdisciplinary scholarship and the future of design practice. Tensions over proportions, boundaries and structures are addressed by this Urmodell, but in the preferred definition of modelling as a mediator, it exists here as a malleable framework over a steadfast solution.

Students’ Perceptions of Humor and Creativity in Project-Organized Groups (pogs) in Engineering Design Education in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunfang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
Project Groups ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Education In China ◽  
Learner’S Perspective

This study explores engineering design students’ perceptions of humor in the experiences of creativity development in Project-Organized Groups (pogs). This study links theories including humor, learning, creativity, and engineering design in one framework. Empirically, this study carried out interviews with a total of 13 students in engineering design education at Northeastern University (neu) in China. We found that students think all humorous people are creative, and they welcome humor in project groups; they also regard humor as not only a personality or communication tool, but also the outcome of applying creative ideas in design practice. The students additionally think that humor is mainly used to keep individuals’ harmonious relationship with the group and that humor is the immediate ability to create using language in ongoing communication contexts. These findings are helpful to unpack the black box of humor from a learner’s perspective and contribute to future joint efforts of studies on humor and creativity in engineering design education.

scholarly journals A World in Flux. Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Faerm
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Global State ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Systems

The present state of the world is in flux. Globally, communities and individuals are experiencing tremendous change, instability, transition, mobility, and uncertainty. Amidst this tenuous future, how are artists, designers, and educators responding? How can we prepare and strengthen our future through pragmatic or theoretical means? What is the role of design, the designer, and design education in such pronounced states of flux? It is with this desire to examine, question, and propose new insights into the current global state of flux that we present our journal. The authors consider the contemporary landscape from diverse perspectives and offer speculations and insights in pedagogy, student development, design education, entrepreneurship, economics, design systems, globalization/localization, sustainability, commercial media, sociology, and design practice/ industry

scholarly journals Development of an AI Userbot for Engineering Design Education Using an Intent and Flow Combined Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 7970
Author(s):  
Yu-Hung Chien ◽  
Chun-Kai Yao
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Virtual Product

As the inclusion of users in the design process receives greater attention, designers need to not only understand users, but also further cooperate with them. Therefore, engineering design education should also follow this trend, in order to enhance students’ ability to communicate and cooperate with users in the design practice. However, it is difficult to find users on teaching sites to cooperate with students because of time and budgetary constraints. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in recent years, chatbots may be the solution to finding specific users to participate in teaching. This study used Dialogflow and Google Assistant to build a system architecture, and applied methods of persona and semi-structured interviews to develop AI virtual product users. The system has a compound dialog mode (combining intent- and flow-based dialog modes), with which multiple chatbots can cooperate with students in the form of oral dialog. After four college students interacted with AI userbots, it was proven that this system can effectively participate in student design activities in the early stage of design. In the future, more AI userbots could be developed based on this system, according to different engineering design projects for engineering design teaching.

scholarly journals Systemic design agendas in education and design research

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susu Nousala ◽  
David Ing ◽  
Peter Hayward Jones
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Experimental Workshop ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Tongji University ◽  
Systemic Design

Since 2014, an international collaborative of design leaders has been exploring ways in which methods can be augmented, transitioning from the heritage legacy focus on products and services towards a broad range of complex sociotechnical systems and contemporary societal problems issues. At the RSD4 Symposium (2015), DesignX co-founder Don Norman presented a keynote talk on the frontiers of design practice and necessity for advanced design education for highly complex sociotechnical problems. He identified the qualities of these systems as relevant to DesignX problems, and called for systemics, transdisciplinarity and the need for high-quality observations (or evidence) in these design problems.  Initial directions found were proposed in the first DesignX workshop in October 2015, which were published in the design journal Shè Jì.  In October 2016, another DesignX workshop was held at Tongji University in Shanghai, overlapping with the timing of the RSD5 Symposium where this workshop was convened. The timing of these events presented an opportunity to explore design education and research concepts, ideas and directions of thought that emerged from the multiple discussions and reflections through this experimental workshop. The aim of this paper is to report on the workshop as a continuing project in the DesignX discourse, to share reflections and recommendations from this working group.

Editorial

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Jamal Al-Qawasmi ◽  
Karim Hadjri
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Traditional Design

The influence of digital media and information technology on architecture is increasingly evident. Architectural design, practice, fabrication and construction are increasingly aided by and dependent on digital technology. The proliferation of computers and telecomputing in design education and practice has resulted in a major paradigm shift and a reorientation in theoretical and conceptual assumptions considered to be central to traditional design education and practice.

scholarly journals 3. Industrial Design and Contextualism: The Applied Arts Constituent/ Curriculum Imperatives in Design Practice and Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-261
Author(s):  
Obasuyi Osa-Francis Efer
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Component Part ◽  
Clay Material ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Contour Shape ◽  
The Given ◽  
Applied Arts

Abstract This paper examined the Curriculum imperatives of Industrial design education and the Contextualism of the principles and practice of disciplines such as Applied Arts and Industrial Design viz-a-viz their constituent and contextual roles and place in design practice/ Industry. The issue of contextualism as it relates to Design and the Applied Arts according to DeRose, K. (2009) would seem to mean a collection of views, theories, principles or philosophy of Design / applied Arts which seems to emphasize the context in which the action principles or purpose of design is understood relative to such a context. ie. In Design, the principles and practice of Applied Arts / Design disciplines (such as in Architecture) for example, contextualism refers to that theory of design in which modern / contemporary designs (buildings, products or structures) are harmonized together with the contemporary design ideals, forms and characteristics peculiar to modern ways/styles of living. (Jencks, 2002). This informed the need and thrust of this paper which was predicated on the consideration of contextualing such a role/place of the Applied Arts as a constituent of Design and spotlighting it to be innately and intrinsically connected to the resultative man-made material culture and society. The paper also seeks to establish that the principles and practice of Design education emphasises the Teacher-learner relationship which is aimed at imparting credible problem solving skills and initiatives such as drawing, drafting (draught-manship), modeling or sculpting (in clay or industrial plasticine) styling and prototype creation (realized by moulding/shaping of the clay material to assume any contour, shape, form or topology of the given object) in ordeer to achieve that innate context and desire for the perfect product so designed. This paper recommends that for any design to succeed it must emplace (strictly) a well articulated Industrial Design Curriculum which elucidates those Applied Arts principles and practice as a constituent/major component part in the Design process of manufacture of any given design initiative.

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