Designers are entrusted with increasingly complex and impactful challenges. However, the
current system of design education does not always prepare students for these challenges …

This paper takes a critical look at the design thinking discourse, one that has different
meanings depending on its context. Within the managerial realm, design thinking has been …

This conceptual paper argues that to develop students' twenty first century competencies,
teachers need to consider how technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) can …

The paper introduces and discusses current developments in architectural discourse, design
theory, digital design models and techniques and their relations to design pedagogy. The …

A pedagogical framework for design learning and design teaching termed Think-Maps is
introduced, presented and demonstrated. In this framework, domain knowledge becomes …

This paper focuses on the structure and dynamic of theory in design research. Problems with
existing theory are explored, and a new meta-theoretical method is suggested for assisting …

Rapid prototyping (RP) today is absorbed into practice and is being recognized as a
significant technology for design. This paper attempts to formulate key aspects of the design …

Engineering design research shows a rather fragmented, if not a chaotic, picture. But does it
have a hidden order? Can we explore it, or should we impose a reasoning model? This …

Emergence has been widely recognized as a significant phenomenon of visual reasoning in
design. Despite its centrality as a cognitive phenomenon, research in emergence currently …

The goal of this research was to determine the long-term impact that selected instructional
interventions, based on research in metacognition and learning theory, have on students' …