Author ORCID Identifier
Tatiana Antunes Tavares: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0365-5438
Marcos Mortensen Steagall: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2108-4445
Abstract
This paper describes a Social Design student’s project conducted during 12 weeks in a Communication Design degree in Aotearoa New Zealand. The project employed a studio-driven educational structure that integrates social, technical and cognitive dimensions of knowledge construction. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to present our experience in order to shed light about Social Design as a context for studio activities in Design teaching. The brief employed a pragmatic framework to problem-solving to develop design outcomes capable of impacting local and global society. As a result, there was increased student engagement within the paper, a fact associated with the process of designing under real-world settings, that produced strategic platforms for collaboration and cultural diversity. It also a design teaching and learning process that are informal, generative and supportive.
Keywords
Auckland Plan 2050, Design Education, Social Design, Design-Based Research
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.259
Citation
Tavares, T., and Mortensen Steagall, M. (2020) Auckland Plan 2050: Rethinking the Future of Design Education in Aotearoa New Zealand, in Boess, S., Cheung, M. and Cain, R. (eds.), Synergy - DRS International Conference 2020, 11-14 August, Held online. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.259
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Auckland Plan 2050: Rethinking the Future of Design Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper describes a Social Design student’s project conducted during 12 weeks in a Communication Design degree in Aotearoa New Zealand. The project employed a studio-driven educational structure that integrates social, technical and cognitive dimensions of knowledge construction. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to present our experience in order to shed light about Social Design as a context for studio activities in Design teaching. The brief employed a pragmatic framework to problem-solving to develop design outcomes capable of impacting local and global society. As a result, there was increased student engagement within the paper, a fact associated with the process of designing under real-world settings, that produced strategic platforms for collaboration and cultural diversity. It also a design teaching and learning process that are informal, generative and supportive.