IISc Bangalore Pedagogy

Can you tell me in detail about the Research Area - Pedagogy-under IDeaS Lab, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore?

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Innovation, Design Study and Sustainability Laboratory (IDeaS Lab) has pioneered research in India in the areas of design creativity, design methodology, sustainability, collaborative innovation, knowledge and life cycle management, and design research methodology, as well as training and supporting product development in practice.

Design Pedagogy

Design pedagogy is the area of inquiry into processes and tools for design learning and education. Work carried out in IdeasLab in this area includes development of new teaching methods and curricula in the areas of design methodology, design creativity, and design research methodology.

The outcomes include the following:

Probably the only curricular course on DRM - a design research methodology. It is offered as a core postgraduate course for research students in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Pedagogical contributions include student driven and student centred learning (student-driven learning), and working on live and ongoing research projects as the primary basis of learning how to do research (learning by doing).

A course on design methodology that trains post graduate students of design how to carry out systematic design. Pedagogic contributions include student-centred learning and learning by doing, and use of both visual thinking and design thinking for carrying out designing.

A course on design creativity is offered as an elective course for postgraduate students of design. Pedagogical contributions include use of Yoga and breathing techniques to develop relaxation and concentration skills for enhancing creativity, and use of skills, methods and approaches for helping one develop ones own methodology for design.

Design Pedagogy Publications
[1] Chakrabarti, A. A Course of Teaching DRM - A Methodology for Design Research, Special Issue on Design Pedagogy: Representations and Processes, Dan Frey, Bill Birmingham and Clive Dym (Eds.), AI EDAM Vol.24, No.3, 317-334, 2010, DOI:10.1017/S0890060410000223.

[2] Chakrabarti, A. A Postgraduate Course on DRM – A Methodology for Design Research, in Proceedings of the Indo-US Workshop on Design Engineering, Chakrabarti, And Subrahmanian (Eds.), Allied Publishing, Bangalore, 2008.

[3] Chakrabarti, A. Evolution Of The Creative Engineering Design Course: Past, Present And Future, National Symposium on Mechanisms and Design, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 31, 2003.

Contact Detail:
Innovation Design Study and Sustainability Laboratory,
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore- 560012,
Karnataka,
India.
Fax: +91 80 2360 1975/0683
Ph: +91 80 2293 3406
Email : ac123(at)cpdm.iisc.ernet.in