Latest Case Studies
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Global Design Initiative Workshop
Köln International School of Design Philipp Heidkamp The Global Design Initiative brings together global design education leaders who believe in new approaches in dialogue and exchange. Our project aims to investigate intercultural learning, to understand the use of narrative in design, the use of cultural artefacts, behaviors and places as source material for design intervention.Continue…
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Skillslab
Product Development, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp Skillslab is an extracurricular project, where both bachelor and master students learn from each other with the lecturer as a coach. In Skillslab, the aim is to stimulate soft skills development, peer learning and multidisciplinary knowledge sharing with the intention to make them grow as aContinue…
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Haptic portrait of the body
Art And Media Education Major 2023 Aalto University Minna Suoniemi In the context of rehearsals with body movement and performative approach. Each student has a large paper of the size of their body taped on the floor. We warm up by feeling the body’s structure: first the bones, then the muscles, then the skin. AfterContinue…
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Join collective clothes
Universität Für Angewandte Kunst, Wien Elisabeth Fröhlich Students had to develop a new method to produce clothes, inspired by ‘Join Collective Clothes. This is a modular system inviting people to create clothes together. An open-source manual explains how to make the four different shapes that together create a complete outfit. Each person can modulate theContinue…
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Bricolage
Interdisciplinary Fine Arts BA/MA TUAS Trier Jörg Obergfell Every student is asked to bring 10 pieces of wood. Out of those, they are asked to create a sculptural shelf for the course reference materials. The structure is built without plan and in total silence. It is finished when no material is left over. In this activity,Continue…
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Eating a Raisin
BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona Jaron Rowan After doing 3 minutes of breathing/body work we get the students to sit down and in silence eat a raisin. The prompt is to do it slowly and pay attention to every detail. After 5 minutes they have to write down the eating experience. By focusing onContinue…
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Mo Ling Chui
LCC Course Leader Design Cultures
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“A project brief on design UI for the skin gave students a sensory awareness of how material properties interact with the skin.”
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OCAD University, Experience design
