Levering critical collaboration: The first year interdisciplinary design experience

Publication Type:
Chapter
Citation:
Collaboration and Student Engagement in Design Education, 2016, pp. 169 - 187
Issue Date:
2016-09-12
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© 2017, IGI Global. This chapter presents an intervention in Design Thinking, a first year interdisciplinary design subject at the University of Technology Sydney. Over two iterations of this subject, researchers reframed the 'group work' component as critical collaboration, drawing from the momentum in the design professions for more participatory and collaborative processes and the increasing acknowledgement of design as being critical to sustainable human futures. The online self and peer assessment tool SPARKPlus was used to change the way students approached collaboration and then reflected on it following their experiences. In this model, self and peer assessment is used as a leaver to encourage critical thinking about collaboration, rather than as a hammer to enforce participation.
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