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Distributed collaboration in design education: practising designer and clients roles
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posted on 2013-02-04, 14:27 authored by Erik Bohemia, Kristina Lauche, Chris Connor, Petra Badke-SchaubChanges in industry require new forms of design education that better prepare students for the realities of concurrent engineering, increased involvement of suppliers in agile manufacturing, and the digitisation and virtualisation of collaboration. This article outlines these challenges for virtual design collaboration and reports first experiences of a distributed design studio (DDS) established between three European universities. In the DDS, students were taught core skills for virtual collaboration and could practice designerclient interaction in an experiential learning environment. The results of a course evaluation (during, at the end and one year after) show that students positively evaluated their own skill development. Student and staff feedback indicated that the embodiment phase proved to be more challenging and the evidence showed it coincided with reduced communication. Overall, the studio format can be seen as a suitable and realistic environment for practicing the relevant skills for virtual teamwork and designer-client communication. As a teaching initiative across institutions, it also served as personal development for staff.
History
School
- Design
Citation
BOHEMIA, E. ... et al., 2008. Distributed collaboration in design education: practising designer and clients roles. Journal of Design Research, 7 (3), pp. 238 - 258.Publisher
© InderscienceVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2008Notes
Closed access. This article was published in the Journal of Design Research [© Inderscience] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/JDR.2008.024193ISSN
1748-3050Publisher version
Language
- en