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A Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Curriculum Development of the First Women-Only Industrial Design Program in Saudi Arabia The first of our research articles on our curriculum development project has now been published in the International Journal of Design Education. Our team of international researchers and myself as…
ID in Saudi Arabia
Developments in Saudi Arabia It is an exciting time of change in Saudi Arabia. One of the key changes is the launch in 2016 of the Saudi Vision 2030 which is a comprehensive plan to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on…
Intentionality, Technology and the Design Studios
Are you a design educator? Do you work in Higher Education? I am excited to share with you a recent publication, based on some research conducted with my colleagues from UC in a first-year Design and Architecture Studio. The study incorporated a…
A Curriculum for Dammam
My colleague was in Denmark, 2016, and has presented the following conference paper, as part of a project on curriculum development in … well read on! Curriculum in progress: Developing an industrial design programme for female students in Saudi Arabia Carlos…
ISSOTL 2015 Conference Paper
The following abstract on action research in design education covers a conference paper that was to have been presented at the recent ISSOTL conference in 2015. Unfortunately, neither Andrew nor I found ourselves there, for a number of unfortunate circumstances, so watch out…