EDUCATING RESILIENT AND WELL DESIGNERS

DS 123: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2023)

Year: 2023
Editor: Buck, Lyndon; Grierson, Hilary; Bohemia, Erik
Author: Price, Rebecca; Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke
Series: E&PDE
Institution: Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Department of Design, Organisation and Strategy
Section: Established, alternative and emerging educational paradigms to equip engineers and designers for future challenges
DOI number: 10.35199/EPDE.2023.88
ISBN: 978-1-912254-19-4

Abstract

In this paper, we present ten (10) preliminary principles for designer resilience. These principles are generated from the results of workshops with Dutch design students, global educators, researchers and design practitioners, conducted over the last eighteen months. We identify students’ needs for resilience towards challenges inherent to the design process: concerns about impact on people and planet: pressure to perform: and shaping future design careers. We further establish a pedagogical foundation to promote resilience and wellbeing via the presented principles for designer resilience.

Keywords: design, education, resilience, wellbeing, pedagogy, didactics

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