classroom as active design studio

This workshop provided an introduction to design as an interdisciplinary practice. Participants engaged design strategies through a series of challenges and collaborative exercises. We began with the premise that learning is a designed activity and experimented with a number of activity-based techniques and reflected on the process. Participants gained resources, strategies, and valuable insights to help them effectively guide students through a collaborative design process.

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This was part of the series, Design Strategies across the Curriculum. Using a collaborative studio model, I developed and facilitated a series of workshops (2017-2019) for faculty at Wesleyan University that explored design teaching methodologies and learning competencies in the context of liberal arts education. At the workshops faculty explored how they might integrate design pedagogies into their teaching to foster creative confidence, collaborative practices, and contextual thinking.