So how do you teach drawing in design school?

Kevin O’Neil for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen I am currently reading this book – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – and making very little progress. The stones, the smoke, the wall, the stray cat and well all the ink details are proving too distracting. Its endless the details, the touches, the stylised touches. The point is? All……

The first three weeks of University

Key to the project “My First 6 Months” is the notion of agency in the student. Key to this project is the constant awareness of Freire’s critique of the Banking Model of Education. Key to the project is the notion of ‘collaborative learning’. Finally there is the zeitgeist, the notion of enterprise. Key Words: Agency,……

I am dreaming of a Learning Lab, again

This blog post was triggered by Wil who asked me; why don’t more people practice learner centered education? Or peer to peer learning? Or everything that is learning in the contemporary? My answer? Why don’t more people practice learner centered education? There are those who see education as method. As a way to activate students.……

The maker-turn

Late in 2019 I was preparing for the move of MF6M out to a new campus. Only this campus would not have conventional classrooms or studio spaces. Instead it would have maker spaces. Seeing this as an opportunity for change – like a Mike Metty Pivot – I embraced the move. The questions that immediately……

You learn best from your peers

ZERO TEACHERS!!! YES!!! This post is a nudge about learning. First you go to university to learn. That is to say you are not there to be taught, or to become an expert at Teams. If in the process you acquire some life long friends that is great too. If you fall in love, maybe……

Set up a Makerspace at home

Fab labs Welcome to the age of the Makerspace. If you see a public makerspace it is clear that you are in a city. If you know what a makerspace is, then it is clear that you were born in the contemporary period. So the makerspace is a thing. Engineers, artists and designer – to……

So that was your first week

(As Coordinator of a set of courses in year 1 of a design program, I send out these kinds of emails. This is from March 2021.) You have now launched yourself into your design sprint. Because the design Sprint relies on designing through a series of conversations. Because the design sprint is a social way……

This is a studio

Design education relies on the studio as one mode of education. The other mode being ‘content learning’ through lectures, projects or tutorials. Often however the essential meaning of the studio is lost and the term studio is applied to all ‘project based learning’ situations. To recenter the focus upon the original meaning of the studio……