Design Studio Learning Environments

Studio-based design education is changing to include multidisciplinary design teams, geographically distributed teams, information technology, and new work styles. The design studio in universities is a physical place, a cultural place, and a social place. Activities are characterized by five factors: co-location, learning-by-doing, continuous access, integrative learning, and mimicking practice (Lawson & Dorst, 2009). A studio-based education ecological framework includes observable components, or “tools”, and pedagogical approaches used to construct design knowledge (Brandt, Cennamo, Douglas, Vernon, McGrath, & Reimer, 2011). In this ongoing research we are investigating the role of the design studio in design education.

Publications

Scupelli, P., & Hanington, B. (2016) Design Studio Desk and Shared Place Attachments: A Study on Ownership, Personalization, and Agency. 2016 Conference of the Design Research Society (DRS2016), 27-30 June, Brighton, United Kingdom.

[41% acceptance rate,(199 accepted, 478 submitted)]

Scupelli, P. (2016) Design Studio Individual Workspaces and Collaboration Hotspots. in Dalton, N., Schnädelbach, H., Wiberg, M., Varoudis, T. (Eds.) Architecture and Interaction: Human Computer Interaction in Space and Place. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30026-9

Scupelli, P., & Hanington, B. (2014) An Evidence-Based Design approach for function, usability, emotion, and pleasure in studio redesign.  Proceedings of the Design Research Society. June 16-19 Umea, Sweden.  [51% acceptance rate (134 accepted, 260 submitted)]