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As Design Happens: Harnessing the Subjective and Developmental Learning Power of the Design Studio offers a timely and provocative rethinking of the studio. More than a classroom where students merely complete projects, the design studio is an organic space where subjectivity, ambiguity, creativity, and human-centered problem-solving flourish to become essential conditions for meaningful learning.
Drawing on pedagogy, design thinking, creativity theory, the arts, and extensive experience in studio settings, David Knowlton argues that higher education too often tries to reduce uncertainty in the name of clarity, objectivity, and control. This book makes the opposite case: The most powerful learning occurs when students and faculty work productively within the subjective, the emergent, and the freedom found in the unformed.
Part one of the book develops a theoretical and structural framework for studio learning. Part two shows how that framework can be operationalized in studio classrooms. While part two focuses on the case of an online instructional technology design studio, the applications can inform all design studios across disciplines. Chapters explore the nature of design, the role of the studio supervisor, student agency, subjective assessment, project journals, community involvement, and students’ own stories of growth.
Written for design studio educators, scholars, and administrators, As Design Happens invites readers to embrace the studio as a dynamic learning environment where design is not didactically taught; instead, it happens, develops, and transforms those who bravely invest in it.
David “Da” S. Knowlton is a Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and host and producer of The Learning Vibes Podcast.
Introduction
Part One. The Framework for Design Studios
Introduction to Part One: The Framework for Design Studios
Chapter 1. “Where Design Happens”: Studios as Developmental and Subjective Space
Chapter 2. “As Design Happens”: Its Subjective and Developmental Nature
Chapter 3. Toward Subjective Intentions and Developmental Principles for the Design Studio Experience
Chapter 4. A Studio Structure for Activating Subjective Principles and Supporting Development
Chapter 5. Design Lifecycles for Subjective Creation and Development of Student Agency
Chapter 6. The Studio Supervisor’s Role in Supporting Subjective Development
Part Two. “Whereas It All Happens”: Operationalizing Subjectivities and Developments within an Online Instructional Technology Design Studio
Introduction to Part Two: “Whereas It All Happens”: Operationalizing Subjectivities and Developments within an Online Instructional Technology Design Studio
Chapter 7. An Overview of SIUE’s Online Instructional Technology Design Studio
Chapter 8. Subjective Grading and Assessment in the InstTech Design Studio
Chapter 9. The Design Project as Catalyst for Developmental Action and Subjective Acumen
Chapter 10. The Design Project Journal: Harvesting Subjective Thinking through Writing-to-Learn
Chapter 11. Citizenship as Essential Components of Interdependent and Subjective Design Acumen
Chapter 12. Student Designers’ Stories of Development and Subjectivity
Chapter 13. Epilogue: Personalized Subjectivity and Development within Design Studios