1.2 - Design Experience Workshop: Sensitising youth to everyday Environments - Masayo AVE

Design Experience Workshop: Sensitising youth to everyday environments Masayo AVE MasayoAve creation, Haptic Interface Design Institute | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, D Design is not about products. It is about a discovery process, sensory experience and analysing and assessing the quality of the living environment. ‘Experiencing design’ begins with close observation of forms, colours, patterns and structures in everyday life and their interrelationships. It focuses on multisensory skills that can be cultivated in everyone from a young age. What kinds of design exercises are most effective for equipping children and youth with the fundamental design skills they need to analyse and assess everyday environments? Drawing on her experience as a professional designer the author created three design exercises and implemented them in a Design Experience Workshop: a series of design lessons for children and youth held in Red Dot Design Museum, Essen as part of EU PROUD project. The aim was to sensitise children and youth to the quality of their living environment. The successful outcomes suggest also that the new form of design education could reconcile the world of arts, humanities and sciences in children’s everyday experiences. Info: http://www.didactic-art.org/index.php