Design Domain: Created Space, Creative Space
Stevens, Thea (2019) Design Domain: Created Space, Creative Space. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38 (4). pp. 757-768. ISSN 1476-8070
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Creators/Authors: | Stevens, Thea |
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Abstract: | In this article, I describe and explore Design Domain, a large-cohort course for which I am academic coordinator and which is enacted across six design programmes at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA). I unpack Design Domain’s context and intentionality as a ‘created space’,where student learners are exposed to different ways of thinking, making and doing, with an emphasis on working within discipline but pushing boundaries beyond the discipline. Next, I evaluate Design Domain as a ‘creative space’, unpacking its lineaments and evaluating its positives and challenges. Then, I set out initial reflections on the taxonomy of disciplinarities, arguing that these can be usefully reappraised when applied to a pedagogical framework like Design Domain, which blends predominantly individual learning with particular and specific points of collective commonality of purpose and action. Finally, I describe how I will go onto develop my understanding via an action research informed evaluation of a recent Design Domain project in Communication Design, where students of graphic design, photography and illustration worked together. I frame the type of critical questions I might ask of staff and student respondents in an action research informed evaluation study, and I offer a preliminary conclusion: that it is more appropriate to focus on ways of thinking than prescribing ways of doing, and that this might bring practice and process into a more adaptive theoretical framework. |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12274 |
Output Type: | Article |
Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Stevens, Thea (2019) Design Domain: Created Space, Creative Space. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38 (4). pp. 757-768, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14768070/2019/38/4. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Design Domain, art & design higher education, created space, creative, space, disciplinarities |
Schools and Departments: | School of Design |
Dates: | Date Date Type 18 September 2019 Accepted 25 November 2019 Published Online |
Status: | Published |
Funders: | The Glasgow School of Art |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jade.12274 |
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Output ID: | 7071 |
Deposited By: | Thea Stevens |
Deposited On: | 12 Dec 2019 15:01 |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2023 13:19 |