A Travelling Desk for Dreamers: A Process Based Discussion on the Evolution of a First Year Graphic Design Brief

By Susan E. Jowsey and Fiona Grieve.

Published by The Learner Collection

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This paper discusses how an accumulative and experiential learning model is imbedded in the design and delivery of the Dreamography Project – a fourteen-week studio brief for graphic design and animation students undertaking the first year of a three-year degree. The project has been written to provide a student centered learning experience that fosters an enquiry-led and practitioner-focused approach to studio practice. A Travelling Desk for Dreamers maps the key characteristics and structures that underpin student’s engagement with conceptual development, exploration of materiality and technology. Students are introduced to a design process through language, text acts as a provocation from which the notion of drawing as a cognitive activity develops and drawing becomes the vehicle that informs thinking. This paper traces the accumulative learning experience and outcomes through the case studies of four students with distinctive and different approaches.

Keywords:	Accumulative and Experiential Learning, Material and Media-based Drawing, Materiality and Technology, Interactive Outcome

The International Journal of Learning, Volume 17, Issue 11, pp.29-44. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 8.467MB).

Susan E. Jowsey

Lecturer in Graphic Design and Digital Animation, Department of Design and Visual Arts, Faculty of Creative Industries and Business, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand

Susan Jowsey is an artist and a Lecturer in Graphic Design and Digital Animation in the Department of Design and Visual Arts Unitec, New Zealand. Educated at Auckland University she completed a Bachelors Degree in Education and Sociology and an MPhil in Fine Arts. Jowsey is a multimedia artist working with 3D objects, digital sculpture and animation, installation, moving image and photography. She exhibits locally and internationally. Her work is held in major collections throughout New Zealand. Jowsey traces with her fingers a map of dislocation, in an exploration of identity, the fabric of habit, trace and breath and the clothes of the senses.

Fiona Grieve

Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design and Associate Head, Department of Design and Visual Arts, Department of Design and Visual Arts, Faculty of Creative Industries and Business, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand

Fiona Grieve is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design and Associate Head of Department of Design and Visual Arts, Unitec, New Zealand. Her interest in pedagogy has most recently resulted in the co-authoring of a three-year practitioner focused degree. She is a founding member of the Threaded Project (www.threaded.co.nz), which intersects both educational and professional domains of practice.

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