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Global Design Futures Network Symposium and Workshops in Bali, Indonesia

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November 10, 2023 10:29 AM

The 2023 Global Design Futures Network Symposium and Workshops are being held at the Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center in Bali, Indonesia November 16-19, 2023.

Global Design Futures Network (GDFN) was established through a memorandum of understanding signed in May 2023 by the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University, the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano, and the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. The aim is to establish a global design futures learning platform and community, attracting global government, universities, institutions, scholars, and students to jointly promote the emergent practices mixing design and futures studies, and provide frontier methods and tools to address global challenges.

GDFN will gather academic resources and practical design futures cases from a global network and sustainably promote collaborative learning, teaching, and research. In addition, by organizing the establishment of academic exchange platforms and corporate cooperation platforms, we co-design future visions for global issues such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the challenges of the Anthropocene, climate adaptability, a community with a shared future for humankind, and future well-being.

There are five workshops:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Future Fashion facilitated by: Clarice Garcia，RMIT University Australia; WEI Qinwen, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology; SONG Yi, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology; Hosted by Ting Chawchen, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Future Cultural Tourism facilitated by: GAO Xiang, VOYA LINK ; Host: HE Siqian, University of Science and Technology Beijing; MA Yuemei, Politecnico di Milano, GDFN International Coordinator.
  • Futures Thinking and Consensus Community facilitated by Cheryl Chung, Kantar Public, Head of Singapore; Host: WANG Yun, Beihang University.
  • Strategic Foresight and Digital Futures facilitated by Jörn Buhring, Abu Dhabi University, Host: ZHU Lin, Tsinghua University, GDFN International Coordinator.
  • Artificial Intelligence Content Generation (AICG) and Future Metaverses facilitated by 分享嘉, 宾林宾华, 刘文俊 Host: ZHANG Mengting, Macau University of Science and Technology

GDFN co-founders Prof. Peter Scupelli, Prof. Anna Barbara, and Prof. Zhiyong FU will facilitate a community symposium to discuss the GDFN’s emergent mission, vision, and roadmap for the next three years.

Organizers: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Design Department, Politecnico di Milano 
School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
HOST: Department of Information Art & Design, Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University
CO-HOST: Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center

Visiting Researcher in Design at the Politecnico di Milano

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September 1, 2023 1:45 PM

Peter Scupelli will be a visiting researcher in design futures methods at the Politecnico di Milano. Peter will also co-teach Design Futures-related methods in the Ephemeral Design course with Professors Anna Barbara, Nicolò Gobini, and Francesca Molteni.

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Climate Reality Leaders Training

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March 11, 2019 3:25 PM

Thursday, March 14, 2019 – 8:00am to Saturday, March 16, 2019 – 3:30pm

The School of Design’s Peter Scupelli will be attending training for the Climate Reality Leadership Corps on March 14th. The Climate Reality Project’s mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate change crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.

Link: The Climate Reality Project

Design Educators Workshop: Applying the Flipped Classroom Pedagogy to Design Courses

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October 21, 2018 12:37 PM

Peter Scupelli taught a workshop for 40 university design educators at Tsinghua University October 21, 2018 as part of the Design 3.0 International Forum held in Beijing, China. The workshop focused on how design educators might use the flipped classroom pedagogy to teach design courses. Dr Scupelli used the Dexign Futures course as a case study. Dexign Futures is a required course he developed for third year undergraduate design students at the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dexign Futures Case Study

How might design educators address new challenges in design education? Currently, design educators are caught between challenges: first, teaching well-established design traditions based on craft and making; and second, training students to situate their artifact making within transitional times in a volatile and exponentially changing world. The tension design educators navigate involves teaching the core of a discipline in relation to an expanding periphery where multiple disciplines interact. The epistemic challenge is how to initiate students into the field’s crystallized knowledge at the same time as fluid, emergent knowledge. Some design educators may yearn for simpler times focusing on mastery of the deep disciplinary cores. Others may discount their own core disciplinary teaching in favor of exploration of the rapidly shifting disciplinary peripheries to meet new challenges and opportunities. We acknowledge both perspectives and further posit that students need exposure to both the core and periphery of design. This introduces an interesting learning challenge: an implicit contradiction for students of design where the core/making tends to reinforce short-term horizon thinking; and the disciplinary periphery requires long-term horizon visioning. We try to address this challenge by aligning short-term design opportunities with sustainable development plans for long-term horizons. We merge design thinking and futures thinking to create “deXign” thinking. A flipped classroom pedagogy integrates design studio with an online component. The course described is called Dexign Futures. Dexign Futures is a required design studies class for all third-year undergraduate students in the products, communications, and environments tracks in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Because traditional design pedagogy poorly equips designers to integrate current human-centered design methods with long-range strategic thinking, a challenge we explore through the class is how to teach designing for the long-term horizon. The term deXign indicates an experimental type of design that integrates Futures Thinking with Design Thinking.

For more information on the Dexign Futures class go to: https://dexignfutures.com/

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IEERC INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS WORKSHOP: Design Thinking and Futures Thinking

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June 1, 2018 5:49 PM

Peter Scupelli taught the Design Thinking and Futures Thinking  workshop June 7-9, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The workshop was called “Using the Flipped Classroom to Teach Design Thinking and Futures Thinking.”

The world is changing at an exponential rate. How might design educators teach different types of design thinking to address challenges such as societal level sustainability? How might technology be used to create innovative learning experiences for students? How might students get more practice opportunities and feedback to better learn new kinds of design thinking. The School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University launched a new curriculum undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students in 2014 to teach design led societal level sustainability. In this workshop, participants experience teaching innovations developed to teach alternative versions of design thinking for societal level sustainability through case studies of four courses taught. For example, in the Dexign Futures course, Design Thinking and Futures Thinking are combined to align short-term design with long-term visions. The Dexign Futures course was taught as a flipped classroom course with two main parts: (a) interactive online modules with interactive feedback that prepare students for (b) in-class hands-on design activities. Workshop participants will learn how to apply the design based teaching innovations demonstrated in the case study to solve current student learning challenges.

http://www.ieeac2015.org.cn/p/17/20180614/163847274598383.html

Summit for Design Research

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September 22, 2017 7:02 PM

Thursday, October 5, 2017 – 8:00am to Friday, October 6, 2017 – 5:00pm

Peter Scupelli will be at the Summit for Design Research at the IIT Instititute of Design on October 5th and 6th. Activities will include meetings and an evening social event on Thursday, October 5th, and a full day of working meetings on Friday, October 6th. Additional details on the specific agenda and activities will be forthcoming.

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Future of Education Charrette

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July 20, 2017 5:44 PM

Futures of Education Charrette

Peter Scupelli is joining two dozen leading thinkers, tech visionaries, librarians and change-agents to help imagine a new universe of collaborative systems that could transform the academy.  The group convenes at Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop, founded by commons scholar and Nobel laureate Professor Elinor Ostrom, from July 22 to 24, 2017, to explore new patterns of scholarly commons that could help invigorate open science, the humanities and academic institutions more generally.  The charrette is being hosted by Earth Science Information Partners and the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has provided funding for this endeavor.

It is an open secret that many structures and protocols of academic research, communication, and collaboration are relics of another era, unable to take full advantage of the rich affordances of digital networks. In addition, many academic systems are overly formal, hierarchical, and credential-driven. While open platforms have significantly advanced scientific and academic missions, many fields of inquiry are discovering that open access and sharing are not enough.

What’s needed is active stewardship, curation, peer commitment and “commoning” – the social practices, ethical norms and processes by which a community can govern itself and manage its research objects. To explore the possibilities, we are convening a “pattern lexicon” charrette to identify possible “design patterns” based on the efforts of several open-science organizations committed to open access to scholarly resources.

There are already encouraging developments in this direction. Just last year, the European Commission announced support for a European scholarly commons as the future of EU science (Open Innovation). At the same time,Force11 is exploring how a scholarly commons can serve as the organizational schema for better governance and management of scientific data sets, software, work-flows, and publications.

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Virtual presentation @ Learning Analytics Workshop

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July 31, 2015 6:04 PM

Paul Inventado virtually presented “Promoting Online Learning System Design Quality: Utilizing Design Patterns Produced by Data-driven Approaches” at the Learning Analytics workshop in Prague, Czech Republic.

Abstract:

Many students benefit from online learning systems each year. However, it is not easy to ensure the design quality of these systems due to their complexity. In this paper, the data-driven design pattern production (3D2) methodology is presented as a solution. Specifically, it uses learning analytics and educational data mining to help uncover relationships between student learning outcomes and system designs. Designs that lead to better learning can be formalized into design patterns, which stakeholders can use to guide them in upgrading the online learning system’s components, and adding new content. The approach is further extended into an open, collaborative framework, which allows stakeholders to collaborate in the production of design patterns. A collaborative effort can speed up the pattern production process, improve the quality of the design patterns produced, share benefits among all members, and ultimately, elevate the standards of online learning system development.

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Data-driven Design Pattern Development (3DPD) Workshop @ PLoP 2014

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July 8, 2014 5:05 PM

Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado facilitated the Data-driven Design Pattern Development (3DPD) Workshop which was  held in conjunction with the 21st Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLOP 2014).

Abstract:

Workshop description: Increasingly, outside of the design pattern community, big data is being used to validate design decisions. For example, A/B testing and simple randomized experiments with two variants are used to validate design decisions in online settings such as web-design, social media, and so forth. Likewise, in online math tutor systems, data-driven approaches are used to identify math problems that confuse and frustrate students or are linked to positive learning outcomes. Big data and measurable outcomes can help to identify problems and confirm high-quality solutions. Design patterns provide a very effective way to describe known design problems and design solutions. In this workshop, we propose to explore the role of data-driven processes in the development of design patterns, such that data-driven exploration may help authors uncover problems and high-quality solutions. In the workshop, we explore domains where data-driven approaches may be appropriate to develop design patterns, methodologies for collecting data, techniques for pre-processing data, approaches for analyzing data and utilizing its results to facilitate the design pattern development process. Participants will have the opportunity to experience the data-driven design pattern development approach through group discussions and simulations.

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