Creative synergies within a social context
Designing for our Environment has been a common and effective practice in Design Education at the tertiary level for most Singapore design institutions. As for design education at the secondary level, the younger students may not have...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93704 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8190 http://www.icsid.org/education/education/articles1050.htm |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Designing for our Environment has been a common and effective practice in
Design Education at the tertiary level for most Singapore design institutions. As
for design education at the secondary level, the younger students may not have
the relevant exposures to this learning approach. This particular project was set
for these young students between the ages of 13 to 15 to exemplify this learning
approach of putting design within our environment.
This project also clearly demonstrated the concept of putting “Theory into
Practice” in Design Education. Design education has to be contextualised and it
should start with young minds of our generation. This group of teenagers
managed to understand the needs of their elderly clients and conveyed their
message in the form of visual communication which encompasses the below
dimensions:
1. Using the visual language appropriately as a visual communication tool to
their clients.
* Communicating with the patients and other audiences through a
functional platform.
2. Creating designs focusing on the fundamentals of design elements and
principles.
* Amalgamating design elements and therapeutic capabilities.
This paper will further elaborate on these main points and discuss how effective it
is for students to learn in a collaborative platform and showcasing what they have
learnt in a social context. It will also identify the main learning points for a more
effective design education in our Secondary Schools. |
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