Print Email Facebook Twitter Teaching conceptual design Title Teaching conceptual design Author Ferreira, J. Christiaans, H.H.C.M. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2012-12-31 Abstract This paper presents the first observational study of an ongoing research project. The research focuses on ‘teaching conceptual design’ and on the investigation of new teaching methods and strategies. Presently, in the commonly established educational setting, students practice the role of designing during design exercises while being tutored by a design teacher. In these circumstances, teacher and student interaction is of paramount importance. However, it is very difficult for teachers to effectively guide students during conceptual design, even though various ideageneration techniques are available. What's more, studies have centred mainly on the student, resulting in a lack of studies on the teacher's role. As such, we focused our pilot-study on the teacher's role as he interacts with a student during the conceptual design activity of a design project. The study was conducted in a real-class setting, with seventeen 2nd year design students. The observations were meant to be as unobtrusive as possible; we used a small audio-recorder to record the teacher/student conversations, and there were no direct interventions from the researcher. The audio recordings' content was then categorized and encoded in order to facilitate the data analysis. The analysis of the observations was highly fruitful. The model we developed for the analysis proved to be valuable and the results allow us to build upon what was done onto further empirical inquiry. In general, our findings indicate that this setting has potential to provide insight into the way design conceptualizing unfolds in an educational setting. Subject design education, conceptual design, observational study To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb3f00f3-1f78-4221-a454-c164332b2037 Publisher The Design Society, Institution of Engineering Designers ISBN 978-1-904670-36-0 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 Ferreira, J., Christiaans, H.H.C.M. Files PDF 286213.pdf 566.01 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:cb3f00f3-1f78-4221-a454-c164332b2037/datastream/OBJ/view