The Designer in the Design Student: The Evolution of Feedback in an Instructional Graphics Studio

• In Event: 16.060 - Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: 16.060-16 - Design Thinking and Learning Improvement

Abstract

Examining nine years of instructor’s collected field notes from teaching in a studio course on instructional graphics, conceptual changes and a transformation of practice with regard to studio critique are identified and described. Traditional wall crit and supplemental desk crit have given way to desk crit as a primary means of feedback with student-to-student discussions and public debriefing replacing wall crit. Assessments focus on the emerging characteristics and strengths of each student as a designer rather than detailed commentary on artifacts. These changes in studio teaching are related to important concerns of design pedagogy, particularly students’ design identities and the development of design character.

Authors

• Elizabeth Boling, Indiana University

• Colin M. Gray, Purdue University

• Kennon M. Smith, Indiana University - Bloomington