wow! engaging learners, enriching learning & energising teaching. kirsten hardie, national...
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Wow! engaging learners, enriching learning & energising teaching.
Kirsten Hardie, National Teaching FellowAssociate Professor, Arts University at Bournemouth
Kirsten
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Educationalists disregard, both in their books and in their schools, the origin and purpose of the objects in museums; they use them as the basis of their courses and urge on their pupils to outdo examples already exceptional of their kind, thus encouraging them to fill our lives with the impractical showpieces with clutter and distort our existence.
Le Corbusier, Decorative Art Today, 1925.
Inspiration for the AUB
collection came from my use, as a students, of
the Staffordshire Universitycollection
which is now called the
Betty Smithers Collection
Image of AUB items: © Kirsten Hardie
Images MoDiP items: © MoDiP, AUB
- inform, excite and inspire - creative ideas
- critical and analytical skills
- communication
- support specialist study – social, cultural, political, economic, technological & historical
- the study of design, materials, manufacture and technology
- to explore issues and attitudes - taste, popular culture, trends, styles and design - to integrate theory and practice
learning
• Student centred• Experiential• Problem-based
• Fun• Memorable• Accessible
SubjectivelyObjectivelyExperience of objects and lifestyle preferenceInfluence – eg. media, exhibitionsEducation – knowledge of objects…Fashion, stylesAesthetic judgement - tasteLifestyle preference Images MoDiP items: © MoDiP, AUB
Design judgements
• Social meanings of everyday domestic items
Values • Positioning - hierarchies• Subjective• Personal - ‘individual delectation’ Attfield,J. 2005
• Memory and history• Material culture• Different attitudes, perspectives• ‘corntemporary’
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function and formuse
ergonomicssize, handling, storage
recyclingshapecolourstyle
Alessi Images MoDiP items: © MoDiP, AUB
ergonomics
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Factors in the development of designsocial, cultural, historical, technological…
• What• Where it happens• When• Connections• People – creators, manufacturers,
marketing, audiences, consumers
‘..abundance is responsible for well-designed consumer products that transcend functionality and appeal to us on an emotional level.
But not only does abundance move us to demand and buy things that look and feel cool, it also frees us to pursue nonmaterial transcendence, meaning and fulfilment.’
Need for appealing design, emotion. empathy and playfulness.
Daniel Pink. (2005) A whole new mind: moving from an information age to the conceptual age.
Image of toilet brushes: © Kirsten Hardie
‘Only against a backdrop of abundance could so many people seek beautiful trash cans and toilet brushes – converting mundane, utilitarian products into products of desire.’
Daniel Pink. (2005)
location - environment - context
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‘Good design is intelligence made visible.’ Frank Pick; London Underground
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‘Design is doing things differently, and better’. James Dyson
plastic & nylon bristlesgrip & protection
materialsproduction process
manufacturecost
target audiencecompetitorsmarketing
Image of Alessi toilet brush -AUB item: © Kirsten Hardie
Image © K.Hardie
‘Less is More’ Louis Sullivan
‘Less is not more, less is a bore’Robert Venturi
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‘Ah, Good Taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.’ Pablo Picasso
Image of toilet brushes -AUB items: © Kirsten Hardie
Kitsch
defies definition to cheapen , novelty, bad taste, sentimental, souvenirs, throwaway, mass produced, poor quality, cheap materials, jokey, happy, trash aesthetic, crude, smut, vulgar, inauthentic, synthetic, false?
‘Kitsch is the culture of the masses’ Art critic: Clement Greenberg
Image of toilet brushes -AUB items: © Kirsten Hardie
Image of toilet brushes -AUB items: © Kirsten Hardie
Image of toilet brushes -AUB items: © Kirsten Hardie
Enjoyment, Inspiration and CreativityKnowledge and UnderstandingSkillsReflectionAttitudes and ValuesAction, Response, Reflection, BehaviourGroup work
