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Jo Cramer’s talk will discuss how designers can encourage users to refashion existing clothes, thereby extending the use of clothes beyond a traditional fashion cycle. She will touch on skill users would need to be able to restyle, reuse and/or remake existing clothes.
In the November’s Engage with Ideas Mauricio Mejía will address the design expertise of professional designers, the design abilities of all humans, and the design mindset that other professionals can use in their practice and collaborative work. He will propose a conversation on how “designing” is an alternative social practice for restoring our full humanity.
Giovanna Danies will address how biodesign can transform STEAM education through nature-inspired innovation, sustainability, and biotechnology. She will present hands-on and challenge-based learning models that foster curiosity, critical thinking, and ethical entrepreneurship, empowering students to co-create regenerative, inclusive futures aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In the upcoming October’s Engage with Ideas talk, Andy Polaine will revisit his 2011 article titled Design Research – A Failure of Imagination? The article was presented as a keynote at the first international Design Research Society’s Special Interest Group on Design Pedagogy conference, co-organised with Cumulus and held in Paris.
In the upcoming April's Engage with Idea talk titled Shaping Policies from a Service Design Approach: the value of design for more responsive organisation, Mariana Salgado will share her experience while working as a lead designer in the Finnish Design and Innovation Lab, Inland Design at the Ministry of the Interior of Finland.
Professor Astrid Skjerven in her talk titled "Creating Sustainability by Mythmaking: IKEA’s Advertising Campaigns" will focus on the mechanisms of commissioning green credentials. She will analyse how producers commission communicate their green credentials to consumers.
In 2023, the journal FormAkademisk published a special issue focusing on ‘Perspectives on Design literacy’. Researchers from countries such as Chile, China, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and and Türkiye, have contributed…
In the upcoming Engage with Ideas, Professor Peter Lloyd will elaborate on the concept of ‘the social practitioner’ and its relevance for today’s rapidly changing world. The implication is that way academics conceptualise the skills and worldviews they think their students should have will guide course content and learning experiences.
Dustin Jessen and Sven Quadflieg will discuss a cyclical cognitive process model for developing Design Literacy abilities. They proposed the model to support “reading” design abilities by (a) recognising that something is design and (b) how it is designed; and writing” design abilities by (c) imagining that something can be design and by (d) designing it.
In the closing 2023 Engage with Idea series Yang Zhang will discuss Metacognition Influence on the Design Knowledge Application. Yang's research suggests that the students who scored highly on the Metacognition Awareness Inventory have ranked the reflective activities, which are make up the Tacit Knowledge category, higher than the either the Domain Specific or the Domain-General/Independent Knowledge category. He postulates although all three knowledge categories are important it is the reflective activities which enable the students to “reflect” on which of the specific knowledge category they should deploy at the specific design project’s juncture.