design education

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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Design Studio Learning Environment Research

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November 14, 2014 9:00 AM

Studio-based design education is changing to include multidisciplinary design teams, geographically distributed teams, information technology, and new work styles. In this research, we describe the graduate design studio redesign in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. The old graduate studio went from a single room design studio to four interconnected spaces: an area with individual workspaces, collaborative spaces, a kitchen and social cafe area, and a classroom with distance learning technology.

  • Study 1 indicates student satisfaction significantly improved. However, open-ended survey comments suggest that functional needs were met, but some pleasure-related and emotional needs linked to habitation were problematic.
  • Study 2 explores ownership, personalization, aesthetics, function, acoustics, upkeep, and agency in the four connected studio spaces (i.e., individual workspaces, collaborative spaces kitchen and social cafe area, the distance learning classroom). Research methods included an online survey and desk interviews.
  • Study 3 determines student occupancy levels in the design studio spaces via a time-lapse study. One picture is taken every minute to determine where students work in the four interconnected spaces.

Key findings include: (a) users evaluated studio spaces holistically based on functionality, emotional response, and pleasure; (b) owned spaces differed significantly from shared spaces; (c) individual work and collaboration work occurred throughout the studio (e.g., collaboration in quiet individual workspaces, and individual work in loud collaboration spaces). The research approach above informs the study of IDeATE studio-learning spaces.

Principal Contact

Peter Scupelli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in IxD
School of Design
scupelli@cmu.edu

Research Team

Bruce Hanington
Associate Professor & Head of Graduate Studies
School of Design

Andrea Fineman
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Design

Xiaowei Jiang
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Design

Frances Yin Wang
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Design

Collaborative spaces and individual workspaces in design studios: a study on ownership, personalization, agency, emotion, and pleasure

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October 24, 2014 9:00 AM

Studio-based design education is changing to include multidisciplinary design teams, geographically distributed teams, information technology, and new work styles. In this talk, I describe the graduate design studio redesign in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. The old studio went from a single room design studio to four interconnected spaces: an area with individual workspaces, collaborative spaces, a kitchen and social cafe area, and a classroom with distance learning technology. Study one indicates student satisfaction significantly improved but some open-ended survey comments suggest that functional needs were met, but some pleasure-related and emotional needs linked to habitation were problematic. Study two used an online survey and a time-lapse study to explore ownership, personalization, aesthetics, function, acoustics, upkeep, and agency in the four connected studio spaces: individual workspaces, collaborative spaces kitchen and social cafe area, and the distance learning classroom. Don Norman’s Emotional Design and Patrick Jordan’s Designing Pleasurable Products books are used as frameworks to explore user needs in design studios.

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