Reframing the academic Master of Arts Productdesign

Reframing the academic Master of Arts Productdesign

Vanhoutte, C.S.

Van Dijk, M.B. (mentor)
Sonneveld, M.H. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design

2014-04-08

Reframing the academic Master of Arts Productdesign Who are you as a designer? How do you design? How is your design built up? A vision on design research in education was developed to bring a fresh perspective on the academic character of the Productdesign. The character was reframed using the Vision in Product design approach in the domain of design, research and education. The results are a vision on design research in education and a case study of how this vision could give shape to Productdesign’s educational environment. The vision describes that meaningful design research constructs a student’s design identity: his design, the way he designs and who he is as a designer. The construction of this design identity is expressed in a model for design research. A model for design research Design students use the model for design research to make their intuition explicit. The model enables them to study how five important elements influence each other: the designer himself as a person, the outside world, his actions, his instruments and his motives. These insights then add to constructing his design identity. Case study: Snapshot How does the influence between a design student's actions and self construct design identity? The influence between two of the model’s elements was studied: between the student’s actions and self. Snapshot enables the student to construct design identity using this influence. Snapshot is a research tool that enables design students to record their design process on video. While designing, important fragments or points in the process are highlighted in the recording. Snapshot’s software then enables the student to describe in words what is seen on the images. This formulation aims to make parts of the student's intuition explicit, which ultimately adds to the construction of their design identity.

reframing
design research
vision
education

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Student theses

master thesis

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