The aim of this workshop is to discuss the use of workshop education and individual workshop admission for students as a vital tool for teaching design to students. A tour of the studios and student work is part of the workshop.
The department of Product Design (DPD) at Kjeller has notable and extremely well-equipped workshops. At IPD, it is possible to perform a wide variety of tasks, including woodwork, ceramics moulding, metal wielding and automation. The workshops play a substantial role in the education offered to IPD students. In the first semester, students are offered basic workshop training to enable them to use the workshops individually or with the help of teachers or student assistants. The workshops make it possible for the students to work with materials that, in a very precise manner, give feedback related to user experience, function, materiality or other parameters that the individual student might wish to examine.
Design education, including the extensive use of craft in workshops, is becoming rarer as a pedagogical type. Ideological reasons may be partly responsible, but there is certainly an economical aspect, too. It is, after all, a very expensive and demanding way of running an educational programme, and questions about cost/benefit are appropriate.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the use of workshop education and individual workshop admission for students as a vital tool for teaching design to students. What are the consequences of this approach for product design education and for the results that the graduating students can present? How do these results differ from those of designers who are educated without workshops as a major learning arena?
The first hour will be a tour of our workshops, where the participants will be presented with examples of work and physical processes that students execute. Then, there will be presentations to shed light on the effects of different approaches and strategies concerning the use of workshops within design education. Our intention is to spark an interesting and constructive debate about the use of workshops as a major learning arena within design education.
Timeframe: 3h
Organisors:
Torgrim Eggen , Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Department for Product Design, Norway; torgrim.eggen@hioa.no
Sigrid Haugen, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Department for Product Design, Norway
Steen Ory Bendtzen; Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway Institute for Productdesign
Open for registration: 30