Design Education Across Disciplines

Miikka J. Lehtonen is Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Rikkyo University College of Business, Japan, and one of the co-founders of the award-winning Nordic Rebels movement. He obtained his PhD from Aalto University School of Business, Finland, in 2014. His current research interests focus on visual methodologies, managing game companies, strategic design, and (blended) design pedagogies. Tomi Kauppinen is Head of Aalto Online Learning—Online Hybrid Lab at Aalto University, Finland. He holds a habilitation (2014) in geoinformatics from the University of Muenster in Germany, and a PhD (2010) and a Title of Docent (2014) in media technology from Aalto University. His transdisciplinary activities and research investigate cognitive and ubiquitous systems, artificial intelligence, information visualization, spatial thinking, and online learning.  Laura Sivula is an education thought leader and futurist, education designer, and lecturer, with several active affiliations. She has witnessed the changing landscape in business and education in her role as Business Area Director for both Aalto University and Aalto University Executive Education Ltd., Finland, which gives her a unique perspective on challenge-based and life-wide learning.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I – Designing design education: strategies for navigating complexities and boundaries- 2. Design pedagogy: higher education possibilities for the 21st century.- 3. Socially responsive design education: emerging designers and authentic transdisciplinary collaborations.- 4. Blurring the boundaries: the new collaborative education, work and skills ecosystem.- 5. Embracing a pedagogy of ambiguity in higher education.- 6. Designing for x-disciplinarity: why, what and how? Why now?.- Part II – Design education blending and crossing boundaries: practices for the 21st century.- 7. Designing a tactile class in online learning: “click-points” vs touchpoints.- 8. Designing learning design pedagogy: proactively integrating work-integrated learning to meet expectations.- 9. Creating Eddies: a transformation design project founded on caring.- 10. Design challenging the concept of market.- 11. Blending boundaries.- Part III – Shifting the mindset: design as a catalyst for rethinking interdependencies across boundaries.- 12. Teaching change by learning change.- 13. Strategy for building a transformative relationship between the academy and the social and business environment through interdisciplinary work.- 14. Designing sustainable designs: making designers future-ready.- 15. A meditative design development framework toward post human-centred transformation of pedagogical processes.- 16. Shifting the mindset: design as a catalyst for rethinking interdependencies across boundaries.- 17. Conclusion.