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Design Thinking is likely not to be a process or a set of tools as the literature claims it to be. Instead, Design Thinking is a web of terms and phrases (a discourse) that researchers use to construct a house that lacks secure foundations. I call these terms and phrases, Designerly Ways of Speaking.
Dr Delane Ingalls Vanada will argue that, although, the traditional art education teacher training which is using predictable methods for problem solving will produce predictable results, it lacks opportunities for developing teachers with a capacity to deliver a learner-centered models which in turn enable to build students’ agency as learners and creators.
Júlio van der Linden will discuss how an international design studio has challenged his and his students’ assumptions. He will suggest that firmly embedded and almost unquestioned assumptions in design or pedagogical practices could be critically examined, challenged, and changed when students and teachers have to deal with motivational factors.
Guillermo Marini will discuss how among the diverse things students learn in school over 12 years, they learn—in an explicit or implicit manner—how to perceive, conceive and practice time. By means of an aesthetic analysis of classroom schedules and everyday moment, this talk titled Everyday Aesthetics in Education: Designing Temporal Experience in School will inquire about pedagogical relevance of designing temporal experience.
What does empathy look like in design-driven classrooms? In this talk we will explore how to create student-centered classrooms that embody a sense of belonging, honors students’ life experiences, and reframes relationship building as we explore the challenge of co-constructed learning in the 21st century.
In the first 2023 Engage with Ideas talk Mia Porko-Hudd will explore the current challenges facing the Craft Education in Finland. She will proposed future possibilities how the craft subjects may contribute towards skills development which are increasingly needed to navigate today’s complex world by for example envisaging new pedagogical models that can facilitate development of technological literacy skills within design and innovation processes in the digital era.
The final talk for the 2022 will be delivered by Nina Terrey. The talk title is The Paradoxes of Embedding Design in Organisations. It is based on Nina's PhD research which explored organisational practices around adopting design as a management practice in the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). At the time of the research project the ATO employed over 22,000 employees and is responsible for the administration of taxation and superannuation legislation. Nina argues that practices of the public servants employed as managers by ATO resembled managing by design approaches. The talk is part of the Engage with Ideas monthly series, which explore the relationship between design, education, and society.
In the upcoming November’s Engage with Ideas talk titled Fostering Design Literacy to address Extended Producer Responsibility, Oscar Huerta and Catalina Cortés will discuss how companies are learning how to eco-design packaging, in order to facilitate the producer's need for compliance with a new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law. In 2016 the national government introduced a legislation which will be enforced in 2023, in which the producers will be responsible for their products from the ‘cradle to grave’.
During the 2022 Perspectives on Design Literacy online Symposium invited international scholars outlined their take on the concept of Design Literacy by presenting their points of view. The key aspect of the symposium was no enable discussions about how we might productively engage with the Design Literacy concept. The articulated points of view have provided the participants to venture onto journeys to map out the field. The mapping process will be used to rally the international Design Literacy network members to open-up alternative spaces for design education and research. You can read more about 2022 Perspectives on Design Literacy online Symposium by vising this link https://designliteracy.net/symposia/
In the upcoming October's Engage with Ideas, Design Literacy International Network event, Marco Mazzarotto's and Bibiana Oliveira Serpa's talk titled Design Literacy in Action will discuss how Freire’s theory of 'dialogical and anti-dialogical action' (1996 [1970]) may guide design educators to consider what subjectivities they aim 'instill' in their design students.