Distributed collaboration in design education: practising designer and client roles

摘要: Changes in industry require new forms of design education that better prepare students for the realities concurrent engineering, increased involvement suppliers agile manufacturing, and digitisation virtualisation collaboration. This article outlines these challenges virtual collaboration reports first experiences a distributed studio (DDS) established between three European universities. In DDS, were taught core skills could practice designer-client interaction an experiential learning environment. The results course evaluation (during, at end one year after) show positively evaluated their own skill development. Student staff feedback indicated embodiment phase proved to be more challenging evidence showed it coincided with reduced communication. Overall, format can seen as suitable realistic environment practicing relevant teamwork As teaching initiative across institutions, also served personal development staff.