Print Email Facebook Twitter Drama in design: An open brief to design for wellbeing Title Drama in design: An open brief to design for wellbeing Author Liao, T. Person, F.E.O.K. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Product Innovation Management Date 2012-12-31 Abstract This paper presents a design module in which student teams were challenged in an open brief to design for wellbeing. To design for wellbeing is difficult. Wellbeing is ambiguous, hard to define and highly personal. In the process of defining their own briefs, a drama workshop was set up to help the students share their understandings about wellbeing. In the paper, we describe the early stages of the design process, when the students conceptualized and shared their understandings of wellbeing through drama and autobiographical writing. To support our analysis, we introduce Bolton’s [8, 9] theory and practice of drama education. Bolton’s work points to a new venue for research on drama in design – namely, the broader learning process of drama that occurs beyond the staged presentation. In illustrating the implications of Bolton´s work on drama for design, we describe how the students drew valuable learning experiences from their autobiographical writings and from preparing staged presentations in designing for wellbeing Subject drama in design, learning, wellbeing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5f1607d8-7808-46ba-8d97-945e05a5c8ae Publisher The Design Society, Institution of Engineering Designers Source Design education for future wellbeing: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on engineering and product design education (E&PDE 2012), Antwerp (Belgium), 6-7 Sept., 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 Liao, T., Person, F.E.O.K. Files PDF 287420.pdf 62.86 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5f1607d8-7808-46ba-8d97-945e05a5c8ae/datastream/OBJ/view