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Creating New Identities in Design Education
Author(s) -
Mendoza Hannah Rose,
Bernasconi Claudia,
MacDonald Nora M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of art and design education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1476-8070
pISSN - 1476-8062
DOI - 10.1111/j.1476-8070.2007.00541.x
Subject(s) - design education , variety (cybernetics) , environmental graphic design , field (mathematics) , art and design , experience design , landscape design , architecture , graphic design , sociology , engineering ethics , art design , architectural engineering , engineering , mathematics education , computer science , multimedia , visual arts , psychology , civil engineering , art , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics
An international education opportunity has been created for design students at West Virginia University. This experience is unique because it takes an interdisciplinary approach to design that exposes students to the idea of a larger design methodology common to design professions. Students take core courses with students from a variety of design fields, including interior design, fashion design, fashion merchandising, landscape architecture, art, and graphic design. Through this interaction, students gain an understanding of the interrelationships among design fields, learn to appreciate new perspectives, and begin to appreciate the place of their field as part of the design community as a whole.