prototyping learning environments

In this workshop, we explored how design acts as a mediator between people and the activities they hope to accomplish through interactions in and with their environments. Our focus was on developing the capacity to support skillful collaboration in the creative framing of problems as we move through the design process. Participants created prototypes of learning environments as a way of assessing complex systems interactions and ways of designing in relationship to that complexity.

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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.