Studio Properties - A field guide to design education

There is something very special about the studio as a place of practice and learning. It allows designers, students, educators and researchers to imagine the world as it might be, facilitating playful creation and critical exploration across a diverse range of design disciplines. This open access book examines the essential properties of the studio within the complex landscape of design education as a place for experimentation and development. Brought together by a team of experts in design pedagogy, Studio Properties is both a tool for education and an inspiration for developing teaching and learning techniques in the studio setting. The text is based around: - Properties - short descriptions of entities that the reader might encounter in the design education studio - Narratives - semi-biographical accounts of studio teaching which offer a way of seeing the studio from a new perspective - Essays - which set out some of the theory, frames and ideas that underpin contemporary studio research, as well as historic cultures and practices Motivated by the absence of a comprehensive book on studio pedagogy, this guide is aimed at both those teaching within a studio setting and those interested in the scholarship of design education. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Open University.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Boling, Boling Elizabeth, James Benedict Brown, Corazzo, James Corazzo, Corazzo James, Colin M Gray, Colin M. Gray, Gray Colin M., Derek Jones, Nicole Lotz
• Assisted by: Aaris Sherin (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781350407503
• ISBN: 978-1-350-40750-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Design Teaching
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Graphic Design, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General, ART / Study & Teaching, Educational: Art & design, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Educational: Art and design