Design Education : Learning, Teaching and Researching Through Design.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Exploring Design Education from Inside and Outside -- Visual-Spatial People, Design Education and Academic Tomes -- Learning About Design Through Higher Education and Museums -- Framing the Research: The Story -- A Word on Book Style and Contents -- 'Letting Hand and Eye Do Exactly What Pleased Them': Balancing Design Creativity, Research and Writing -- 1 Design Education Contexts and Designer Identities -- Introduction -- Arenas of Design Education: Space, Place and Language -- Chronicling and Creating Who We Are -- Design and Designers: Images and Traditions -- Designer as Heroic Visionary -- Designer as Healer -- Designer as Storyteller -- Designer as Maker -- Designer as Partner in Industry -- Designer as Artistic Speculator -- The Designer as Ourselves -- Conclusion -- 2 Richness and Alienation: The Experiences of Researchers in Design Education -- Introduction -- Research Contexts and Culture -- Richness and Alienation -- The Researcher Journey: Legitimacy and Confidence -- Teaching, Research, Design: A Web of Practice -- Conclusion -- 3 Learning Through Doing -- Introduction -- Tradition and Flux in Design Education -- Beyond Masters and Apprentices: The Practice of Demonstration -- Design Process and Designed Object -- Learning Through Interdisciplinary Projects -- Magic, Instinct, Method? -- Conclusion -- 4 Freedom, Risk and Constraint: Creative Design Learning -- Introduction -- Creativity: Ambiguity, Wonder and 'Unspoken Interactions' -- Creativity, Independence and Risk -- Design Education and the Institution: Seriousness, Inspiration and Disruption -- Objects: Knowledge, Imagination and the Construction of Meaning -- Performance -- Conclusion -- 5 On Not Being Able to Write: The Visual and Verbal -- Introduction.

Speaking and Writing about Design -- Visual, Spatial, Tactile: The 'Specialness' of Design -- Academic Writing: Linearity, Consistency, Objectivity? -- The Visionary, Visual and Personal in Design -- Approaches to Writing -- Conclusion -- 6 To Infinity and Beyond: Expectations and Experiences of Technology -- Introduction -- Technology and Learning: Surface and Depth -- Experiments with Technology-Based Design Learning Resources -- The Impact of Technology Within Research Projects -- Social and Personal Identity in Technology Use -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Design Education encapsulates and analyses the research findings facilitated by the UK based Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design. By examining over 40 projects, ranging in focus from design students' use of archives and museum collections to the potential of specific technologies to enhance teaching and learning, Design Education explores aspects of learning and teaching in higher education design subjects, from architecture and 3D design through to fashion and graphic design.

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