Events

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’.

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.

Linda Keane will explore the Place Based Literacy / Alfabetización Basada en el Lugar / 中文, and how the "Anywhere Anytime E-Learning Toolkit" supports subjects, scales, and approaches, across Project Based Learning (PBL) activities buy cultivating cultural and ecological investigations of the world. Moving through TOOLS, LANGUAGE, DISCOVERY, and DESIGN opportunities, participants scaffold critical skills connecting people and places to the world that could be. The talk is based Linda and Mark Keane's article titled  Design THIS Place: Built Environment Education.