Boundaries? What Boundaries? The Crisis of Design in a Post-Professional Era

Atkinson, Paul

doi:10.2752/175470710x12735884220817

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“…This presents a major challenge for Universities as addressing the perceived crisis through well understood mechanisms may result in further unforeseen negative outcomes. It has also been argued by some authors that certain disciplines are also in a crisis, for example (Bremner & Rodgers, 2013) suggest that there is a blurring of the boundaries between traditional design disciplines producing a new capacity for collaboration that has encouraged new types of design practice to emerge (Atkinson, 2010). This phenomenon is not restricted to design and can be seen in many other practice oriented disciplines.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Connor¹

2016

IJRSE

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This paper argues that academia is undergoing a crisis, particularly in terms of some institutions experiencing growing student disengagement. Many changes to curriculum design and delivery have been focused on the modularisation of degree programmes to promote greater flexibility for a changing student demographic. This paper suggests that modularisation has the potential to create segmented learning, where students learn particular content in isolation and do not create linkages between knowledge gained across different modules. It is suggested that blurring boundaries between modules can address concerns about segmentalism. It is also suggested that blurring boundaries between other academic structures can also add value, for example the distinction between teaching and research. This paper presents a number of examples of work-in-progress strategies for using the creation of a third space of learning where research is used to generate cumulative learning.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Connor¹

2016

IJRSE

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“…Digital fabrication disrupts the traditional route which a product is designed and distributed into the market. It also blurs the line between designer and consumer, as more fabrication tools become accessible for amateurs [4].…”

Section: Digital Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fusilli

Zheng

2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Fusilli is a natural interface developed for end-users to explore and customize the design of a parametric wrist accessory. The natural interface utilizes bare-hand interactions, designed to enable end-users to control the parameters of wrist accessory, and export designs for additive manufacturing. This paper describes the interaction concept and design details of the interface, as well as a preliminary evaluation of this interface against a control interface utilizing sliders to affect the parameters. This paper concludes with the evaluation results, along with a discussion of the insights uncovered from the user study.

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“…In the twenty-first century, the increasing 'convergence' of design-based disciplines is an advancing paradigm across practice, research, and education. This process is principally driven by the catalytic role of interconnected digital media and the influence of meta-disciplinary approaches that draw similarities across scales and fields (Atkinson 2010). Disciplinary convergence suggests a centripetal counter-force to the centrifugal impulses of disciplinary specialization and fragmentation prevalent since the 1950s.…”

Section: Evidence and Analysis: Disciplinary Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Disciplinary convergence: landscape architecture and the spatial design disciplines

Kullmann

2016

Journal of Landscape Architecture

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Boundaries? What Boundaries? The Crisis of Design in a Post-Professional Era

Cited by 24 publications

References 3 publications

Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Engaging undergraduates with research to promote cumulative learning

Fusilli

Disciplinary convergence: landscape architecture and the spatial design disciplines

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