1st Edition
by Stephen Temple (Editor)
Learning to think and act
creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for
architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic
design. Development of creative capacities must be encountered early in
design education for beginning students to become self-actualized as
skillful designers.
With chapters written by beginning design instructors, Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design addresses
issues that contribute to deficiencies in teaching creativity in
contemporary beginning design programs. Where traditional pedagogies
displace creative thinking by placing conceptual abstractions above
direct experiential engagement, the approaches presented in this book
set forth alternative pedagogies that mitigate student fears and
misconceptions to reveal the potency of authentic encounters for
initiating creative transformational development.
These
chapters challenge design pedagogy to address such issues as the spatial
body, phenomenological thinking, making as process, direct material
engagement and its temporal challenges, creative decision making and the
wickedness of design, and the openness of the creative design problem.
In doing so, this book sets out to give greater depth to first design
experiences and more effectively enable the breadth and depth of the
teacher–student relationship as a means of helping your students develop
the capacity for long-term self-transformation.
