Design and Interdisciplinarity: analysis of a use case of “fundamental physics” in a design school

Design and Technology Education: An International Journal2017Annie Gentes, Anne-Lyse Renon, Julien Bobroff

Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 2017, ⟨10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572⟩

This paper analyzes the introduction of fundamental physics in design education as a pedagogical method that trains designers to create with the un-known. It studies how three workshops offered design students to work on: superconductivity in 2011, quantum physics in 2013 and light and optics in 2014. The authors observe that introducing physics in a design curriculum was thought in terms of an “a fortiori” education program that would help practitioners to come up with pertinent questions and responses even if they cannot comprehend all aspects of the problem. The authors looked at how the workshops were handled and suggest that the educational framework had five goals that correspond to a model of design: affective (how to cope with uncertainty), reflexive learning (how to cope with processes rather than contents), cognitive (how to cope with non knowledge), economic (how to cope with the industrial society of innovation), and political (how to cope with the equality of disciplines and “indiscipline”).

Annie Gentes, Anne-Lyse Renon, Julien Bobroff. Design and Interdisciplinarity: analysis of a use case of “fundamental physics” in a design school. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 2017, ⟨10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572⟩ (lien externe). ⟨hal-05584248⟩ (lien externe)

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APA

Gentes, A., Renon, A.-L., & Bobroff, J. (2017). Design and Interdisciplinarity: analysis of a use case of “fundamental physics” in a design school. In Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. https://dx.doi.org/10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572

MLA

Gentes, Annie, et al. “Design and Interdisciplinarity: Analysis of a Use Case of ‘Fundamental Physics’ in a Design School.” Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, Jan. 2017, https://dx.doi.org/10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572.

Chicago

Gentes, Annie, Anne-Lyse Renon, and Julien Bobroff. 2017. “Design and Interdisciplinarity: Analysis of a Use Case of ‘Fundamental Physics’ in a Design School.” In Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. https://dx.doi.org/10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572.

Harvard

Gentes, A., Renon, A.-L. and Bobroff, J. (2017) “Design and Interdisciplinarity: analysis of a use case of ‘fundamental physics’ in a design school,” Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572.

ISO 690

GENTES, Annie, RENON, Anne-Lyse and BOBROFF, Julien, 2017. Design and Interdisciplinarity: analysis of a use case of “fundamental physics” in a design school [en ligne]. January 2017. Disponible à l'adresse : https://dx.doi.org/10.24377/DTEIJ.article1572