Relaxing Design Students' Sketch Inhibition: Experiences with Theoretical Grounding and Impermanent Media

Autor/inn/en	Altenburger, Elke; Falche, Isabella; Gwin, Haley
Titel	Relaxing Design Students' Sketch Inhibition: Experiences with Theoretical Grounding and Impermanent Media
Quelle	In: International Journal of Art & Design Education, 42 (2023) 1, S.69-85 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Altenburger, Elke)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1111/jade.12446
Schlagwörter	Freehand Drawing; Inhibition; Design; Studio Art; Intervention; Stress Management + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drawing; Zeichnen; Hemmung; Kunstwerkstatt; Stressmanagement; Stressbewältigung
Abstract	This article reports about a study developed to understand the effectiveness of instructional strategies to manage sketch inhibition in design students through studio-based pedagogy. Sketch inhibition among students and recent graduates of design programs is a prominent aspect of the prevailing digitization of the design industry and education. While traditional and digital media are ideally complementary tools to facilitate the complex process of designing, studio instructors struggle to effectively integrate both into their students' conceptions and practices. Primary data sources were ethnographic fieldnotes, semi-structured interviews, and students' responses to open-ended survey questions. Whiteboards used as an impermanent medium, requests for quantity of sketches, and gentle enforcement of time limits were incorporated into studio practices on the foundation of theoretical grounding. Students understood the purpose and advantages of using hand sketches at strategic moments during the design process. Inhibited students responded to this combination of interventions by relaxing enough to focus on engaging with the relevant design tasks rather than focusing on how best to avoid them. Production of rich records, documenting their projects' progression, served as supporting evidence that sketching had become a more normal and accepted part of the design process than for previous studio cohorts. The authors suggest more experimentation with these strategies and propose that sketching instructors prioritize and nurture 'thinking sketches' over 'persuasive sketches' to transfer attention from the representation of design solutions toward the design process and the development of mature design solutions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01