Design Knowing and Learning: Cognition in Design Education
Wide aspects of a university education address design: the conceptualization, planning and implementation of man-made artifacts. All areas of engineering, parts of computer science and of course architecture and industrial design all claim to teach design. Yet the education of design tends ot follow tacit practices, without explicit assumptions, goals and processes.\ This book is premised on the belief that design education based on a cognitive science approach can lead to significant...
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Wide aspects of a university education address design: the conceptualization, planning and implementation of man-made artifacts. All areas of engineering, parts of computer science and of course architecture and industrial design all claim to teach design. Yet the education of design tends ot follow tacit practices, without explicit assumptions, goals and processes. This book is premised on the belief that design education based on a cognitive science approach can lead to significant improvements in the effectiveness of university design courses and to the future capabilities of practicing designers. This applies to all professional areas of design. The book grew out of publications and a workshop focusing on design education. This volume attempts to outline a framework upon which new efforts in design education might be based. The book includes chapters dealing with six broad aspects of the study of design education: • Methodologies for undertaking studies of design learning • Longitudinal assessment of design learning • Methods and cases for assessing beginners, experts and special populations • Studies of important component processes • Structure of design knowledge • Design cognition in the classroom
List of ContributorsCh. 1Introduction: Bringing Design Knowing and Learning Together1Ch. 2Stalking Homo Faber: A Comparison of Research Strategies for Studying Design Behavior13Ch. 3Studying Engineering Design Learning: Four Verbal Protocol Studies37Ch. 4Novice conceptions of design: Implications For The Design Of Learning Environments63Ch. 5Design Cognition: Results From Protocol and Other Empirical Studies Of Design Activity79Ch. 6Variants in Design Cognition105Ch. 7Defining Design Between Domains: An Argument for Design Research a la Carte125Ch. 8New Directions in Design Cognition: Studies of Representation and Recall147Ch. 9Visual Analogy: A Strategy for Design Reasoning and Learning199Ch. 10Dissociation of Design Knowledge221Ch. 11Scenario-based Design: A Brief History and Rationale241Ch. 12The Mind in Design: A Conceptual Framework for Cognition in Design Education269Ch. 13Design Knowing and Learning: A Socially Mediated Activity297Index315
