Learning beyond borders: Pioneering interdisciplinary learning and teaching approaches to promote socially responsible design practices

Learning beyond borders: Pioneering interdisciplinary learning and teaching approaches to promote socially responsible design practices.

Module / MA Project 1 / the Socially Active Designer.

Presenters: Dr Claire Craig / Senior Lecturer / Lab4Living / Health & Well Being

Roger Bateman: Principal Lecturer / MA Design Programme Leader/ACES/ Art & Design.

Teaching staff: Dr Claire Craig / Roger Bateman / Dr Eve Stirling Glyn Hawley.

Students: Yr 1 / Semester 1 / 2015/16 / MA Design Programme.

Welcome

About:

Structure:

Background to the project

Setting the broader context

Experiences and learning

Future direction of the work

Learning Beyond Boarders

Beyond good design to: doing good by design

Designing the learning experience

How the students approached the project

Building a framework based on the cycle of action research

Socially Responsible Design:

1st semester module, 14 weeks, MA Design, 6 disciplines.

3 projects, micro, micro mini, *mini (6 weeks)

Design & Dementia (Memory loss)

ThemesIdentity.History.Function. ContextsHome.City.Community.Care.

*9 collaborative group projects involving 36 students, staff from 2 faculties and 1 research centre, third sector organisation and fixperts.org

Does the atelier method or studio teaching environment of one communal space and one fixed timetable offer the best support and learning opportunities for today’s creative students?

Disruption / Innovation

*Learning beyond the borders of discipline.

*Learning beyond borders: international element.

*Learning beyond borders: beyond the classroom.

*Learning beyond borders of existing learning and teaching modules.

 Relating our work to other approaches

Hacking the Fixperts model

• Collaborative Team working

• Allowing for real world experience

• Creating strong visual communication through film making (more on this later)

• Developing a response through an iterative design process

• Learning to listen and understand the needs of others

• Connecting with (an) immediate environment(s)

*Dementia, memory loss

*9 collaborative group projects involving 36 students, staff and third sector organisations, Fixperts.org

Create4Dementia

Fixperts.org

Dementia, memory loss

*Dementia, memory loss

Dudley & Geoff

Dementia, memory loss

6 students,3 MA Design,3 OT,24 design challenge.

Reflections on learning (students)

In Residence: Page Hall, Sheffield

Students Sheffield City Council*Sheffield City Schools

How can co-design offer a medium to enable people living in transient multi-ethnic ‘villages’ communicate with each other and build understanding across cultures and generations?

*TBC

[email protected]@shu.ac.uk

With Thanks:

Claire Jepson, Senior Occupational Therapist, Grenoside Grange Hospital, Paul Chamberlain ADRC.

Alon Meron, Fixpert, fixperts.org