25. LED- Continuous Learning to Cultivate Designer Professional Identity

• In Event: Roundtables A
  In Roundtable Session: LED- Roundtables A

Short Description

Ongoing learning opens the door for designers to continue to gain knowledge improving their design skills or cultivating their Professional Identity. Learning is change and by attempting to change something through design, design becomes a means to learn. This interactive session focuses on 6 strategies promoting continuous learning and an exercise to cultivate to Designer Professional Identity. Those preparing designers and those who design will walk away with specific strategies and activities to promote designer ongoing learning and development.

Authors

• Contributor: Monica W Tracey, Wayne State University

• Presenter: John Baaki, Old Dominion University