STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF ONLINE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN STUDIO PARTICIPATION

Abstract

We argue that students participating in competitive project activities may facilitate development of their skills such as creative thinking, the formation of “vision” and stress resilience. In this paper, we will reflect on students’ experiences who participated in the 10 weeklong creative Global Studio project, which was delivered online across five countries. The article describes features of the creative studio project, the tasks and goals that the participating students set for themselves, as well as their motivations. An important place in the structure of our exploration is the identification of the aspects in this creative studio project which students perceived to benefit their learning as well as the difficulties they experienced with the implementation of their projects. The article reports the results of a student survey and discusses the attitudes of students with different levels of preparation for creative studio projects. The article highlights the importance of professional projects and project work as an integral part of the educational process of students of creative specialties and notes that competitive projects carried out jointly with students from different countries of the world give a positive experience of combining the educational process. We conclude that in the modern world, virtually devoid of borders due to the development of technology, competitive project activity is a new educational trajectory that brings out the student’s creativity and teaches them to adapt quickly to the changing stressful working conditions.