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ITP Training programme – Artistic Research with PWU Manila

11 Sep

Last February Sint Lucas Antwerpen concluded a three year training programme with the visual arts and music department of PWU in Manila. During these 3 years strong bonds were created between the 2 institutions.

The concluding 2 weeks were 14 intens, but rich in sharing experiences on artistic research. Both the mentors and tutors from Sint Lucas and PWU grew a lot during this trajectory. Together we planed fruitful seeds for artistic research in the Philippines. In the first week we worked on a joint publication. A special edition of Grounds (the name of the research publication at Sint Lucas) was launched. A precious achievement that resulted in 2 unique copies. One can be consulted at the library of PWU, on at the library of Sint Lucas Antwerpen.

Although the ITP trajectory is over, the collaboration has not.We will try to find ways to do so. It was and is an honour to be part of this journey as a Dean.

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Our article ‘Collaborative Design Thinking (CoDeT: A Co-design Approach for High Child-to-adult Ratio” has been published!

28 Jun

Delighted and honoured to have been able to contribute as a co-autor to this paper, which presents the 

Collaborative Design Thinking (CoDeT) co-design approach, its theoretical framework, and its application in a case study with 49 children aged 9 to 10 in two schools.  

CoDeT can be applied  in co-design settings characterized by high child-to-adult ratios (ca.1 adult for 15 to 20 children), such as schools, museums and maker spaces. In these settings, children have to work relatively independent from adults who become guides on the side. This can be challenging due to children’s limited understanding of the design process and their lack of skills to collaborate productively towards a shared design goal. CoDeT addresses these challenges by integrating principles of Social Interdependence Theory (SIT) and Design Thinking (DT), which together form the theoretical backbone of the approach. CoDeT was first applied in a case study and yielded promising results in terms of children’s collaboration and design thinking skills, yet possible improvements were found. The insights of this case study informed the revised version of CoDeT presented at the end of the article, in a what-why-how structure, allowing researchers and practitioners to apply the co-design approach in a wide variety of contexts characterised by high child-to-adult ratios.

You can find the article here (full text free accessible and downloadable for 50 days). 

CoDeT outcomes can be interpreted with the GLID method; a multimodal approach for integrating verbal, material and other co-design outcomes in a structured and coherent analysis. For more information, see the IJHCS article “The GLID method: Moving from design features to underlying values in co-design”.

With Maarten Van Mechelen, Bieke Zamman, Bert Willems and Vero Vanden Abeele.

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So glad to see this …

28 Apr

Screenshot 2019-04-28 at 09.21.13In 2017 I had the pleasure to work with the great team of the Erasmus Hogeschool (EhB)  – Department of Design and Technology  – in Brussels on a new curriculum called Digital Design & Development. Design Thinking is at its core. The course trains young people to become critical digital experience designers and is completely based on project-based learning, combining play, creativity, technology, human-centred design, societal challenges and art.  It is so nice to see now that this is actually happening and that the gender balance is getting in the right direction, because technology is not just a male thing 😉

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