| Title: | Pulling It Together: A Pre-Comprehensive First-Year Project |
| Author: | Heintz, Eirik ; Dougan, Brian |
| Abstract: | In an effort to overcome a deficit in basic drawing, making and critical thinking skills that typify many students educational experience in the Middle East prior to entering design school, a four week project for first-year design students was developed to address the ideal mental condition described by John Dewey in How We Think. The project, Micro-Hybrid, was designed for students coming from an educational system where knowledge is often compartmentalized and memorization and recall seem to be the primary aim. The intention of the Micro-Hybrid was to provide an early opportunity to integrate the diverse skills required for an informed design process. This was accomplished by creating a final design project that drew directly on the semesters previous design exercises. The paper will outline how the Micro-Hybrid project is a means to analyze, explore, integrate and produce a product that acts as a veritable microcosm of a true design experience independent of discipline. |
| Description: |
This presentation was part of the session : Pedagogy: Procedures, Scaffolds, Strategies, Tactics 24th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student |
| Type: | Proceedings |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29146 |
| Date: | 2008-03 |
| Contributor: |
American University of Sharjah
Texas A & M University |
| Relation: | 24NCBDS. Pedagogy: Procedures, Scaffolds, Strategies, Tactics |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Design process
Middle East Design studios |
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