This book offers a range of approaches to teaching higher education design students to learn to design collaboratively and creatively, through transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning experiences.

It highlights that the premise of traditional disciplinary silos does little to advance the competencies needed for contemporary design and non-linear career paths. It makes the point that higher education should respond to the impacts of a changing society, including fluctuating market demands, economic variations, uncertainties, and globalization.

Chapters highlight approaches that address this changing landscape, to meet student, industry and societal needs and reflect a range of design education contexts in which the authors have taught, with a focus on experiences at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, but also including collaborations and comparative discussions elsewhere in Australia and globally, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.

The book is positioned not as a definitive theoretical model for transdisciplinary design education but instead as a collective of chapters in which many forms of learning are explored through overarching themes of curriculum design and experiential and authentic learning and collaboration, transforming professional identities, and design cultures.

About the Author

Lisa Scharoun is currently the Head of School - School of Design at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She is a multi-award-winning teacher, researcher and designer with expertise in visual communications, transdisciplinary design, design for health and cross-cultural design.

Deanna Meth is a Senior Lecturer, Curriculum and Learning Design at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her recent research focuses on learning and teaching critique and analysis and curriculum development on a range of scales.

Philip Crowther is an architect and Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. His research interests are in higher education and the factors that affect academic success. He has expertise in first year transition and learning design.

Dean Brough is a senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His applied research explores the intersection of health and design, with a focus on performance and protective apparel for sub-tropical climates and skin cancer prevention.

Lindy Osborne Burton is an associate professor and architecture and the design for health program co-leader at Queensland University of Technology.

Muge Belek Fialho Teixeira is a creative maker and transdisciplinary designer, specialised in advanced manufacturing, digital fabrication, and parametric design. She is a design lead at the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Hub), and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Interior Architecture at Queensland University of Technology.

Book Information
ISBN 9781789388671
Author Lisa Scharoun
Format Hardback
Page Count 330
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books