IDSA Initiative, Teaching Design to K-12 In the fall of 2010, the Industrial Designers Society of American (IDSA) launched into new territory with a dedicated Web page focused on design integration entitled Teaching Design to K-12. The goal, to create a community interested in integrating design in K-12. ![]() Victor
Papanek Going Forward Serving as primary research leading up to the IDSA
initiatives, Walter Hargrove and Doris Wells-Papanek collaborated on the Victor
Papanek Going Forward © (VPGF) Action Research Pilot Study targeted at
developing a human-centered and student-directed learning pedagogy. ![]() | Da Vinci Design School Students enrolled in the Da Vinci Design School are preparing for college and 21st century careers in advertising,
architecture, digital media, industrial design, product design, user experience
design and other jobs that call for skills in art, science and technology. Charter
High School for Architecture and Design
CHAD was launched in 1999 in collaboration with local educators as part
of AIA Philadelphia’s Legacy 2000 Project. CHAD’s mission is to educate the
urban at-risk students and use architecture and design instruction to achieve that goal. Design
Learning Challenge The purpose of
the Design Learning Challenge is to gain insight into the hearts and minds of
college design students today. The goal is to gather feedback and input on
recent learning experiences to serve as fodder for two design high schools as
they refine their curriculum models. NOCCA Design Day The
purpose of the NOCCA Design Day Event is to invite IDSA conference participants to
assist in a problem solving exercise with 60 freshman high school
students. The goal, to kick-off a series of projects in which students will take an
active role in the design of their learning spaces. |