The Role of Writing in Undergraduate Design Education in the UK

ISBN-13: 9783845423494 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str.

Alke Gröppel-Wegener

Opis

The principal aim of this thesis was to examine the extent to which current methods of teaching in undergraduate design courses leaves the students with an awareness of the potential of the writing process in their practice. The context and position are reflected upon, and the potential of the process of writing in contemporary undergraduate design education in the UK is explored with special reference to the 3D Design course at Manchester Metropolitan University. Rather than focusing on the written outcomes that are produced, writing is explored as a process that could be considered a design process, an activity that goes through cycles of planning, acting, observing and reflecting (modelled on the action research spiral).

O autorze

Originally from Germany, Dr. Alke Gröppel-Wegener has made her home in the North-West of England. She spends two days per week as a Senior Lecturer at Staffordshire University, where she has been awarded a Teaching Excellence Fellowship in 2011. Her teaching is supported by research that aims to combine creative with academic practice.