Which Proximity in Design Education?: A Contemporary Curriculum(Project Thinking on Design)

This book explores various pedagogical viewpoints and dialectical positions within the field of design education and the concept of proximity it has established with industries and manufacturing. Which Proximity in Design Education? frames a wide range of approaches in design studios on undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels and their capacity to render meaningful and novel attitudes and actions beyond the classroom. The urgent call for resilience in the way we lead our lives has brought our global boundaries and social tensions to the forefront of the conversation, and there is a generation of students fully aware of our collective responsibility in this decisive decade. As such, educators need to rapidly adapt to new tools and ways of teaching design, whilst also being challenged on how to educate the designer for the pressing tasks of the near future. It presents optimistic solutions for how education can support renovated mindsets and efforts towards common goals. This book contains distinct visions of the world and its problems relating to proximity in design education. As such, the chapters present diversified solutions to these issues, which will be of interest to teachers and researchers working in design education.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Design Proximity(ies) in Design Education 1. Draw(in)Proximity: A Drawing-Based Strategy for Knowledge Transfer 2. The New Fado of the Students: Proximity between Utopia and Architecture Education 3. Design Educators: Collective Agents of Change 4. The Synergies Initiative: Enhancing Interdisciplinarity through Problem-based Learning in Design Education 5. Portuguese Educational Practices: A Journey through European Trends in Graduation, Quality Assurance, and Design History: The Influences and Consequences in the Teaching of Design to Develop a Relevant and Contemporary Curriculum 6. Liquid Proximity: Engaging and Alternative Ways of Interacting with Design Students 7. Proximity of Conjectures to Design Pedagogy Part 2 Design Approaches in Academic Context 8. Food Design Education: Design for Food or Food for Design? Different Approaches to Designing a Change for Our Food Systems 9. Design Activism: A Humanitarian Approach in an Academic Context 10. Textile Design: A Transdisciplinary Approach in Higher Education in Portugal 11. Urban Design Project-Based Teaching: The UQAM Praxis III Lab Approach 12. Investigating the Means Utilized by the Supporting Staff in Design Studio Courses: An Interview Study 13. Assessments in the Design Studio: Self-Reflecting on MDD (AUAS) Methods 14. Teaching Design in the Google Age: Redesigning the Assignment 15. Design Thinking and the Proximity Argument — The Case Study of Engineering Students at a Portuguese University Part 3 Teaching-Learning Processes 16. Teaching-Learning Design through the Contingency of COVID-19 17. Tall Tales: Reflecting on the Role of Dialogue in Design Studio Learning 18. Portuguese Design Education on Materials – An Overview 19. Supporting the Understanding of Complex Concepts through Play Situations 20. A Pilot Study for Introducing Designing Materials in Design Education 21. Exploring Student Perceptions of Product-Service Systems

About the Author :
Rita Assoreira Almendra is a Full Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture (FA-ULisboa) where she is Head of the Design Department and coordinates both the Design Doctoral Program and the nucleus of Design at CIAUD research centre. She holds a PhD in Design (2010) from FA-ULisboa, and a Master's in Design Management (2004) and an MBA with marketing specialization (2002), both from the Catholic University of Lisbon. Rita has worked for more than 20 years as a design researcher and educator, with numerous publications and master's and doctoral supervisions in this field. She is the founder and coordinator of the Research & Education in Design research group [redes.fa.ulisboa.pt], and was responsible for two editions of the International Conference on Research and Education in Design.