From Consumer to Citizen: Engaging Students with Participative Methods in Design

摘要: This paper takes as its staring point a debate series organised by the University of Arts London in 2013 to explore relationship between enterprise and sustainability within creative arts. Traditionally designers have attempted generate respond desire consumers through creation products. Increasingly this is perceived unethical that it contributes an unsustainable world. In response are drawing upon design methodologies refigure consumer different ways include: user, public, citizen co-designer. Such approaches draw participative requiring greater use relational skills such empathy facilitation. creates new challenges for educators terms how foster which tacit rather than formal. will consider some concrete examples from curricula adapting teaching learning approaches.