Contemporary Design Education in Australia: Creating Transdisciplinary Futures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1789388678 ISBN 13: 9781789388671

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2023

Synopsis

This book offers a range of approaches to teaching higher education design students to learn to design collaboratively and creatively, through transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning experiences.

It highlights that the premise of traditional disciplinary silos does little to advance the competencies needed for contemporary design and non-linear career paths. It makes the point that higher education should respond to the impacts of a changing society, including fluctuating market demands, economic variations, uncertainties, and globalization.

Chapters highlight approaches that address this changing landscape, to meet student, industry and societal needs and reflect a range of design education contexts in which the authors have taught, with a focus on experiences at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, but also including collaborations and comparative discussions elsewhere in Australia and globally, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.

The book is positioned not as a definitive theoretical model for transdisciplinary design education but instead as a collective of chapters in which many forms of learning are explored through overarching themes of curriculum design and experiential and authentic learning and collaboration, transforming professional identities, and design cultures.

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About the Authors

Professor Lisa Scharoun is a professor and the head of the school of design at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She is a multi-award winning teacher, researcher and designer with expertise in visual communications and cross-cultural design.

Dean Brough is a senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His applied research explores the intersection of health and design, with a focus on performance and protective apparel for sub-tropical climates and skin cancer prevention. 

Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira is a creative maker and transdisciplinary designer, specialised in advanced manufacturing, digital fabrication, and parametric design. She is a design lead at the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Hub), and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Interior Architecture at Queensland University of Technology.

Lindy Osborne Burton is an associate professor and  architecture and the design for health program co-leader at Queensland University of Technology. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789388678
• ISBN 13: 9781789388671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Scharoun Lisa, Meth Deanna, Crowther Philip, Brough Dean, Teixeira Muge Fialho Leandro Alves, Osborne Burton Lindy