Print Email Facebook Twitter Make space, make place, make sense Title Make space, make place, make sense Author Leurs, B. Schelling, J. Mulder, I.J. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2013-12-31 Abstract a problem due to a lack of space, a group of 50 design students had to move to another building. Having a dedicated space in an historical building turned the initial setback into an opportunity. Design students usually do not have the luxury of having their own design studio. By observing and interviewing the students over a period of 5 months, it was found that students transformed their space into a place in order to enhance their sensemaking process. A three-stage model referring to ‘make space, make place, and make sense’ is motivated and elaborated upon. It can be concluded that a space, or better to say a place, is an invaluable tool in facilitating meaningful design education. The physical environment seems to affect students’ development as well. At the final presentations teams not only surpassed expectations of their clients and tutors, but also their own expectations. They clearly act more confident in their interaction with the external world (clients, users, participants) as a designer Subject design educationstudio pedagogyspaceprojectssensemakingEPDE To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1d3f5d1a-11dc-4002-bc52-1eab2ec83d0f Publisher Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Source E&PDE 2013: International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Dublin, Ireland, 5-6 September 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Authors Files PDF 295576.pdf 587.75 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1d3f5d1a-11dc-4002-bc52-1eab2ec83d0f/datastream/OBJ/view