Overview
- Shares and discusses a diverse range of inclusive methods for how design engages learners
- Presents how design thinking transforms higher education with solutions ranging from single courses to programs
- Demonstrates how designing across disciplines is done across continents and higher educational institutions
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This book explores how design thinking can transform higher education, with solutions ranging from single course sessions to whole programs and universities. The authors demonstrate how designing across disciplines is done, with disruptive technologies, ambiguity and challenges as catalysts. Iteratively tested pedagogies, design-driven solutions and creative uses of both tactile and digital worlds are among the approaches discussed. Educators and leaders of higher education institutes as well as designers and managers of companies will benefit from engaging the design ideas in their own work.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Designing Design Education: Strategies for Navigating Complexities and Boundaries
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Design Education Blending and Crossing Boundaries: Practices for the 21st Century
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Shifting the Mindset: Design as a Catalyst for Rethinking Interdependencies Across Boundaries
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Reviews
“This book is an essential read for anyone who is curious about designing the future of higher education today. The authors share how everyone can leverage design principles as a catalyst to have interdisciplinary conversations that re-examine how to best prepare learners in their future workplaces and as global citizens in light of the changing dynamics of today’s social, political, and economic climate. In a time where many question the value of higher education, the authors converge historical precedent with evidence-based practices we can learn from to create the future of higher education.”-- Sabba Quidwai, Founder, Designing Schools, USA
“The big societal problems of today’s and tomorrow’s world cannot be solved in disciplinary silos – instead we need to work together and combine diverse expertise to create solutions that make change happen. The combination of multidisciplinary collaboration, challenge-based learning, and design thinking goa long way in creating solutions for the future. I encourage everyone to read this book with a learning mindset. ”-- Kristiina Mäkelä, Provost, Aalto University, Finland
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Miikka J. Lehtonen is Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Rikkyo University College of Business, Japan, and one of the co-founders of the award-winning Nordic Rebels movement. He obtained his PhD from Aalto University School of Business, Finland, in 2014. His current research interests focus on visual methodologies, managing game companies, strategic design, and (blended) design pedagogies.
Tomi Kauppinen is Head of Aalto Online Learning—Online Hybrid Lab at Aalto University, Finland. He holds a habilitation (2014) in geoinformatics from the University of Muenster in Germany, and a PhD (2010) and a Title of Docent (2014) in media technology from Aalto University. His transdisciplinary activities and research investigate cognitive and ubiquitous systems, artificial intelligence, information visualization, spatial thinking, and online learning.
Laura Sivula is an education thought leader and futurist, education designer, and lecturer, with several active affiliations. She has witnessed the changing landscape in business and education in her role as Business Area Director for both Aalto University and Aalto University Executive Education Ltd., Finland, which gives her a unique perspective on challenge-based and life-wide learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design Education Across Disciplines
Book Subtitle: Transformative Learning Experiences for the 21st Century
Editors: Miikka J. Lehtonen, Tomi Kauppinen, Laura Sivula
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23152-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23151-3Published: 01 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23154-4Published: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23152-0Published: 31 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Education, general, Science Education, Educational Philosophy