‘IMPOSTER DESIGNER’: SETBACKS AND SELF-DOUBTS ON A JOURNEY TOWARD IMPACT

DS 131: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2024)

Year: 2024
Editor: Grierson, Hilary; Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon
Author: Price, Rebecca
Series: E&PDE
Institution: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Page(s): 426 - 430
DOI number: 10.35199/EPDE.2024.72
ISBN: 978-1-912254-200
ISSN: 3005-4753

Abstract

This conference paper reports, empirically, the setbacks and self-doubts that confront design students as they journey toward becoming professional practitioners. There is critical need to elevate well-being as core capacity for complex problem solving in lieu of the systemic expansion of design scope and new defining attitudes to work in the post-covid era. This conference paper further disseminates the emerging concept of ‘designer resilience’ as a new approach to design pedagogy that acknowledges the difficulties of pioneering systemic change.

Keywords: Resilience, Pedagogy, Complexity, Setbacks

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