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Mapping the journey: visualising collaborative experiences for sustainable design education

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posted on 2016-04-04, 12:19 authored by Muireann McMahon, Tracy Bhamra
The paradigm of design is changing. Designers now need to be equipped with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to participate in the global move towards a sustainable future. The challenges arise as Design for Sustainability deals with very complex and often contradictory issues. Collaborative learning experiences recognise that these complex issues can be addressed with the pooling of diverse knowledge, perspectives, cultures, skills and tools. Unless, however the process of collaboration is explored in detail, the opportunity for reflection, learning and improvement is lost. This paper proposes that by introducing and analysing collaboration within third level design education, the capacity for responsible design practice can be developed, leading to a transformative shift in how designers are taught as students and subsequently practice as professionals. Over two multidisciplinary projects devised and undertaken by design students from the University of Limerick (Ireland), Hogeschool Utrecht (Netherlands) and Virginia Commonwealth University (USA), the collaborative path is mapped and critical junctions identified. From this process of mapping and visualisation, collective narratives of the overall project experience are constructed (through the eyes of the participants and planners). This leads to a greater understanding and appreciation of the benefits and limitations of the collaborative experience.

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  • Design

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International Journal of Technology and Design Education

Pages

1 - 15

Citation

MCMAHON, M. and BHAMRA, T.A., 2016. Mapping the journey: visualising collaborative experiences for sustainable design education. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 27 (4), pp. 595–609.

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© Springer Science and Business Media

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016

Notes

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10798-016-9365-0.

ISSN

0957-7572

eISSN

1573-1804

Language

  • en

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