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(de)Coding the Studio Method to Teach the Design of Human-Computer Interaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
This paper reports on the beginning of a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to apply the studio method to teach computer science students principles of user interface design. The grant spans ...
blog.folios : Social Networking to Academic and Professional Engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
Today's eighteen-year-old college freshman belong to a generation known variously as Generation Y, the Millennial Generation, the Computer Generation and the Internet Generation. Not only is this group the first to have ...
Digital RE Thinking: Digital Literacy in Beginning Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
A challenge to CAAD pedagogy is how to use digital tools and the digital environment to explore design thinking and process that makes inspiring beautiful architecture to educate a new breed of "Digital Master Builders"? ...
[Ab] Sense - Revisiting the One That Can Not Get Away From Oneself
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
Meaning in design work can potentially be implied, attached or altogether disregarded. A condition which may indicate that meaning, even in the loosest of semiotic arguments, amounts to mere arbitrariness. In order to ...
Charrette : A High Performance Vehicle for Learning in the Design Studio
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
When announced at the beginning of a studio session, a charrette often elicits groans from students and some pondering about the tasks that may lie ahead in the short period of intense work articulated in the parameters ...
Sound-Object-Space: A Case Study on Utilizing Musical Composition for an Interdisciplinary Basic Design Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
The basic design education, which is implemented as a freshmen year studio training at schools of art, design and architecture, has a particular importance in developing students' mindsets. In spite of its practical and ...
Beginning Scribes: Architecture Through Genre Writing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
The Second Year undergraduate writing seminar at UNC Charlotte has enjoyed a 20-year history in the College of Architecture. Originally administered as a pair of courses in support of the sophomore design curricula, the ...
Design Exercise in "Minimal Existence"
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
At the beginning of design studies students should think about the minimum we need to live or exist. With this in mind I designed a one-week-assignment called "Minimal Existence." This assignment crossed borders between ...
From Endings Come Beginnings: Facilitating the Transition from Ending Student to Beginning Practitioner
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
The receipt of a degree is momentous; it is at once the end of an academic career and the beginning of practice life. Terminal coursework thus becomes a critical component in successfully preparing students for the ...
Design Gateway: Pedagogical Discussion of a Second-Year Industrial Design Studio
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)
Most industrial design programs focus the beginning design curriculum on the learning of core design principles. These core principles are seen as not specific to any one discipline (architecture, industrial design, ...