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Review of creativity factors in final year design projects in China

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posted on 2017-08-11, 14:48 authored by Yang Zhang, Erik Bohemia, John McCardleJohn McCardle
This paper focuses on investigating a common phenomenon that emerges in the reformative process of China’s design education system from the traditional to ‘creativity-directed’. The investigation is explored through the following aspects: the circumstance of conducting Final Year Design Projects (FYDPs) in China, with a review of relevant pedagogical theories of Project-based learning (PjBL); and a review of cross-cultural understanding of creativity. Through conducting the literature survey, it is proposed that some product design students’ lack creative abilities that could affect their learning performance in FYDPs. It is proposed that this is evident through their difficulty in applying subject specific knowledge in an effective way. Analyses suggest that underpinning the problem might be the educational and social cultures within China’s product design programmes and how the final year projects are implemented. In conclusion it is suggested that design students’ creative abilities are influenced by the adopted problem solving processes that involve knowledge application.

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  • Loughborough University London

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The 19th International Conference on Engineering and product Design Education

Citation

ZHANG, Y., BOHEMIA, E. and MCCARDLE, J., 2017. Review of creativity factors in final year design projects in China. IN; Berg, A. ... et al (eds). Building Community: Design Education for a Sustainable Future. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering and Production Design Education (E&PDE17), Oslo, Norway, 7th-8th September 2017, pp.382-387.

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© Institution of Engineering Designers and The Design Society

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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/

Acceptance date

2017-07-27

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is a conference paper.

ISBN

9781904670841

Language

  • en

Location

HiOA, Oslo, Noway

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