Improving Architecture Students’ Design Skills: A Studio Experience

Ceylan, Salih; Soygeniş, Sema

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“…This is directly related to respondents' understanding of sketching, as when defining a sketch, 43% of respondents associate sketching with drawing techniques. This is also in line with the understanding of the term 'sketch' proposed by several authors (Ceylan & Soygenis, 2022;Pistone, 2002).…”

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Sketching – an Undervalued Tool in General Education

Urdziņa-Deruma¹,

Celmiņa-Ķeirāne²,

Avotina³

et al. 2023

To Be or Not to Be a Great Educator

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Sketching is one of the key activities that characterise the process of visualising ideas in the creation of design products and artworks. Sketching skills are necessary to record observations. In addition, sketching can be used to capture new information. In the new State basic education standard of Latvia, sketching has a noticeable place in both design and technologies and art. The study aimed to investigate the role of sketching in the general education of students – future teachers of primary school education, future design and technologies teachers, and future designers. A survey (n = 126) was used to achieve the aim. The results show that sketching is to a greater extent and more diversely taught in visual arts than in home economics and technologies. Almost a fifth of the respondents (19%) did not learn sketching in visual arts, and almost half (48%) – in home economics and technologies. Most respondents consider that a sketch is a rough idea for a work, a draft of a work, and its main characteristic is quickness. 43% associate sketching with drawing techniques. Students use sketching most in free sketching situations and in generating ideas for visual artworks. Students sketch equally to record observations and stylize them as well as to visualize design product ideas. Most students emphasise that sketching needs to be practised, it is a way to visualise thoughts and ideas, and it stimulates creativity. Most students believe that sketching has an impact on the result of product design (both speed and quality), and they also stress that sketching ideas makes it easier to choose which idea to pursue.

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“…Sketching is one of the key activities that characterise the process of visualising ideas in the creation of design products and artworks (Buxton & Buxton, 2007;Sung et al, 2019;Ceylan & Soygenis, 2022). Sketching skills are necessary to record observations.…”

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Sketching – an Undervalued Tool in General Education

Urdziņa-Deruma¹,

Celmiņa-Ķeirāne²,

Avotina³

et al. 2023

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“…Sketching is one of the key activities that characterise the process of visualising ideas in the creation of design products and artworks Sung et al, 2019;Ceylan & Soygenis, 2022). Sketching skills are necessary to record observations.…”

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2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought teachers professional and personal challenges, creating particularly stressful crisis-like conditions for their learning and development. The aim of this qualitative study is to conceptualise teachers' learning experiences that have accompanied the transformations of their professional activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Narrative interviews of teachers were conducted in Latvia in the spring/summer of 2022. They were coded and analysed according to thematic analysis method. This article entails the results of the first stage of the study. The study found that teachers' learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic are characterised by the paradigm of transformative learning as overcoming. Thematic structure of the learning experiences was developed and comprises 4 themes (dealing with limitations, seeking support from community, learning on the go, drawing conclusions) as well as 13 subthemes, which describe teachers' experiences in rich detail, revealing their complexity and variability. The article offers conclusions on the conceptualisations of teachers' experiences, discusses support and conditions needed to benefit from the experience and points to the significant role of context, relationships, and dedication for teachers to have beneficial learning experiences accompanying the transformations of their professional activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sketching as an external representation of thinking results and processes in education

Avotiņa,

Karlsone,

Urdziņa-Deruma

et al. 2023

Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice

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In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of sketching in the fields of art, design and architecture, as well as education more generally. Sketching can play a unique role in promoting effective learning by helping to represent both concrete and abstract spatial relationships. This study aims to determine whether sketching is an advisable tool for expressing the results of human thinking in different situations of professional life, not only in art and design education but much more widely. The article uses an analytical examination of empirical material collected from eight interviews with experts to answer the following research questions: (1) is sketching an activity that can be classified as a mundane, methodical design-thinking technique? (2) Is sketching a hands-on exercise, necessary for a sense of freedom in the process of fixing thought, aimed at finding a creative solution in every new situation? and (3) should sketching be part of the educational process in all areas of teaching and science? The analytical findings offer a critical perspective and argue that sketching is a recommended and valuable tool for expressing the results of human creative thinking in different situations of professional life. The widespread impact of new digital technologies on the visualization of ideas compared to older, analogue visualization methods, as well as the increasing influence of artificial intelligence, creates a challenge to raise awareness of the need to use sketching in the educational process so that students can understand the role and importance of sketching in the creative and cognitive process as an essential tool for capturing thinking outcomes.

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Improving Architecture Students’ Design Skills: A Studio Experience

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Sketching – an Undervalued Tool in General Education

Sketching – an Undervalued Tool in General Education

To Be or Not to Be a Great Educator

Sketching as an external representation of thinking results and processes in education

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