The Construction of Traditional Non-Heritage Culture in Art Design Education — A Case Study of Fujian-Zhejiang Wooden Arch Gallery Bridge

This paper aims at discussing the potentials of bottom-up design practices in relation to the latest developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by making an in-depth review of inaugural cases. The first part of the study involves a literature study and the elaboration of basic strategies from the case study. The second part reframes the existing ICT tools and strategies and elaborates on their potentials to support the modes of participation performed in these cases. As a result, by distilling the created knowledge, the study reveals the potentials of novel modes of ICT-enabled design participation which exploit a set of collective action tools to support sustainable ways of self-organization and bottom-up design. The final part explains the relevance of these with solid examples and presents a hypothetical case for future implementation. The paper concludes with a brief reflection on the implications of the findings for the future of architectural design education.

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USE INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO ENHANCE CREATIVITY OF DESIGNERS BY STIMULATING THE SENSES IN THE CONTEXT OF ART DESIGN EDUCATION

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.593 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 3319-3328

Author(s):

Xiaoxiao Liu ◽

Yukari Nagai ◽

Kumi Yabuuchi ◽

Xiuxia Cui

Keyword(s):

Design Education ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Interactive Media ◽

Media Technology ◽

Education Environment ◽

The Senses ◽

Art Design ◽

To Receive ◽

Core Issues

AbstractCreativity is very important for designers, and methods to stimulate designers' creativity are the long-term focus of art design education. The senses are an important channel for designers to receive information and define core issues. Stimulating the designer's senses can help enhance their perception and creativity, and is of great benefit for the quality and efficiency of the design outcome. Today's interactive media technology provides more possibilities and advantages for designers' perception and sensation. The purpose of this research is to explore a way to stimulate the designer's senses through the use of interactive media, thereby improving the designer's design thinking and creativity, and providing designers with innovative design support. By means of interactive ground projection and experiments, and discussion of the advantages of interactive media to stimulate designers' senses, this research proposes innovations in art design educational media, which is valuable for the training and learning of designers and the development of virtual education environment in the future.

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TOOLS FOR RECORDING PROTOTYPING ACTIVITIES AND QUANTIFYING CORRESPONDING DOCUMENTATION IN THE EARLY STAGES OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.577 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 3159-3168

Author(s):

Sohail Ahmed Soomro ◽

Yazan A M Barhoush ◽

Zhengya Gong ◽

Panos Kostakos ◽

Georgi V. Georgiev

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

Learning Process ◽

Design Education ◽

Development Process ◽

Digital Fabrication ◽

Prototype Development ◽

Early Stages ◽

Creative Solutions ◽

Insight Into

AbstractPrototyping is an essential activity in the early stages of product development. This activity can provide insight into the learning process that takes place during the implementation of an idea. It can also help to improve the design of a product. This information and the process are useful in design education as they can be used to enhance students' ability to prototype their ideas and develop creative solutions. To observe the activity of prototype development, we conducted a study on students participating in a 7-week course: Principles of Digital Fabrication. During the course, eight teams made prototypes and shared their weekly developments via internet blog posts. The posts contained prototype pictures, descriptions of their ideas, and reflections on activities. The blog documentation of the prototypes developed by the students was done without the researchers' intervention, providing essential data or research. Based on a review of other methods of capturing the prototype development process, we compare existing documentation tools with the method used in the case study and outline the practices and tools related to the effective documentation of prototyping activity.

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BRINGING SYSTEMIC DESIGN IN THE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE: THE CASE OF GENDER EQUALITY IN AN ACADEMIC CONTEXT

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.58 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 581-590

Author(s):

Alexis JP Jacoby ◽

Kristel Van Ael

Keyword(s):

Gender Inequality ◽

Design Education ◽

Educational Practice ◽

Design Approach ◽

Academic Context ◽

Traditional Design ◽

Systemic Problems ◽

Societal Problems ◽

Systemic Design

AbstractThe field of design practice and design education is reaching out to address problems that cannot be solved by introducing a single product or service. Complex societal problems such as gender inequality cannot be solved using a traditional problem-solving oriented design approach. The specific characteristics of these problems require new ways of dealing with the dynamics, scale and complexity of the problem.Systemic design is a design approach integrating systems thinking in combination with more traditional design methodologies, addressing complex and systemic problems. This paper reports a systemic design approach in an educational context for the case of academic gender inequality. We show the way the problem was addressed and how design students were invited to take a systemic perspective, provide integrated interventions and take first steps in providing instruments for implementation. We conclude with the learnings from this case study, both on the process and the results.

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