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Rediscovering Design Education as a Social Constructivist Foundation for Innovative Design Thinking

Rediscovering Design Education as a Social Constructivist Foundation for Innovative Design Thinking
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Author(s): Johann van der Merwe (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 24
Source title: Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development: Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arlindo Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)and Ricardo Simoes (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave and University of Minho, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-617-9.ch011

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Abstract

Design has been described by Bruno Latour as the missing masses, and tellingly as “nowhere to be said and everywhere to be felt” (2005: 73). Traditionally, not only objects, but design’s presence in general has gone largely unnoticed by the public, but that is changing, due, in considerable part, to the ubiquitous presence of computing technology. Design, as representative of unnoticed and neutral objects, is no longer feasible, but design, as a participative presence in the lives of its users, is fast gaining ground in our complex society. Designers are no longer fully in control of the design process, meaning design practice, and as a result design education must change to adapt to the increasing pace at which different social groups are evolving new ways of communicating and living.

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