SIGCUE OUTLOOK Vol. 26 #3 July 1998 Asynchronous Learning in the Visual Arts and Design Surya Vanka Industrial design education typically takes place in an immersive environment (the design studio) in which apprentices (design students) are inducted into a community of expert practice by the master (design instructor) who engages in and reflects on the practice being learned. The apprentice-student learns by intensive doing, supported by periodic formal feedback through design critiques, and informal mentoring through peer and instructor interaction. Clearly interactive, synchronous and face-to-face interchanges are the cornerstone of this model of design education. Studio-based teaching is an effective and proven educational model that has produced generations of successful designers worldwide. Yet, the traditional design studio merits re-examination as it may not be as well suited, in its current form, to the design problems and education of the late nineties. Today's global world informed by information technologies and typified by accelerated social and cultural changes is dramatically different from the world of even just a decade ago. In response to the changes, the industrial design profession too is repositioning itself with expanded concerns, powerful tools and interdisciplinary alliances. A fundamental shift is that in its very definition
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Asynchronous learning in the visual arts and design
Vanka, Surya
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