{"title":"Analysing the Limitations of Bauhausian Pedagogies in Contemporary Design Education From a Neuroscience Perspective","authors":"Ranran Wei, Yang You, Zhiqi Liang, Taigyoun Cho","doi":"10.1111/jade.12616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12616","url":null,"abstract":"Design, as a vital force driving social progress and cultural development, is now being revisited through advances in neuroscience, which provide new insights into its cognitive foundations. The Bauhausian, a pioneer of modern design education, has had a lasting influence on contemporary pedagogy. However, traditional methods face challenges in light of evolving neuroscientific knowledge. First, its strategy centred on spiritual introspection and perceptual training can stimulate creative thinking, yet the lack of a systematic understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying creativity restricts the internalisation of cognitive strategies and knowledge systems. Second, the practice‐oriented model of ‘learning‐by‐doing’ reinforces procedural memory and skill automatisation but may inhibit higher‐order prefrontal cognitive functions, thereby constraining cognitive flexibility. Third, the principle of prioritising form and function relatively neglects the cultivation of emotion and social cognition, which may diminish the humanistic care and emotional resonance of design outcomes. By reinterpreting Bauhausian pedagogies through the lens of neuroscience, this paper seeks to provide both theoretical grounding and practical insights for innovation in contemporary design education, underscoring that the integration of neuroscientific findings can help build a more systematic and adaptive educational paradigm.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145311069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective Visual Communication in Higher Education: Intercultural and Cross‐Cultural Design","authors":"Samantha Williams, Rebecca Harris, Carol Allison","doi":"10.1111/jade.12615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12615","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how undergraduate design students develop cultural sensitivity through a live brief by the Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), focusing on global‐local tensions in their responses. While prior studies address global‐local dynamics, few explore intercultural pedagogy in the United Kingdom live briefs. Using intercultural communication frameworks, the research highlights the importance of primary research, cross‐cultural collaboration and clear learning outcomes, advocating for stronger cultural fluency integration to better prepare students for inclusive global practice.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145282706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stitching Serenity: Exploring Theories of Well‐Being Through Embroidery","authors":"Henna Lahti, Päivi Fernström","doi":"10.1111/jade.12619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12619","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how embroidery as a tactile form of inquiry can enhance students' understanding of well‐being concepts. Drawing on Bereiter's (2002, <jats:italic>Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age</jats:italic>) idea of naturalising abstract knowledge objects, we examine how students materialised their theoretical mind maps through embroidery. To test and develop the idea of materialisation we offered a textile course in the first year of the craft teacher master's degree at the University of Helsinki, in Finland. As co‐teachers, we guided students in formulating personally meaningful and academically stimulating research questions. Students conducted literature reviews and integrated their findings into embroidered works, using various techniques to express theoretical concepts. We explored how the research questions influenced students' engagement and how various aspects of well‐being were embodied in embroidery. Our collective case study included 15 pieces of work and data‐driven analysis of written and embroidered outputs. Results revealed two types of knowledge construction, that is, experiment and explanation, capturing the overall contents of students' inquiry processes. Our findings indicate that the tactile and creative nature of embroidery deepens engagement with theoretical concepts, facilitating a unique and embodied form of knowledge construction. This study contributes to discussions on arts‐based research methodologies and the role of craft in academic inquiry.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145289188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encountering Typography through the Tactility of Non‐Digital Tools in the Age of Screens","authors":"Seojoo Han","doi":"10.1111/jade.12617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12617","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of digital technology on design is undeniable, shaping both the practice and pedagogy of typography. While digital tools have expanded typographic possibilities, they have also made it more challenging to cultivate sensitivity to type's form, use and historical significance. Design educators continue to grapple with the implications of increasing dependence on digital technologies, particularly in typography, where expertise has traditionally been shaped by both human reading habits and technological advancements. Despite typography's central role in graphic design education, there remains limited literature on how different tools influence learning outcomes. This paper presents a case study of a project in which students exclusively use basic drawing and painting tools to achieve an unmediated design experience, rather than relying on digital simulation. The study also compares hand‐drawn typography with digital typesetting in InDesign, exploring the cognitive and perceptual differences between these approaches. Using surveys, semi‐structured interviews and direct observations, this research examines how different methods impact students' attention to typographic detail, their appreciation for craftsmanship and their understanding of typography's spatial and material dimensions.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145283073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Peace with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Art Education","authors":"Rebecca Heaton","doi":"10.1111/jade.12614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12614","url":null,"abstract":"Views regarding the access, position and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI pedagogies in transformative art education are changeable and controversial, particularly regarding influence, opportunity and ethics. This dialogic paper grapples with these concerns to ‘make peace’ with AI and its pedagogic development in art education. It draws on collective intelligence and collective imagination gained from scholarly material, the machine and art educator reflective experiences and voices to position ‘peaceful dialogic making’ as a pedagogic approach to transform future art education opportunities. Making can encourage sensitive engagement with ecologies, complexities and possibilities in art education, and as demonstrated in this paper, AI can be engaged critically and with peace to enrich making. Enacting ‘peaceful dialogic making’ in, with, through and about AI in art education can forge identity and value connection, such as with the National Society for Education Art and Design manifesto values, that favour inclusive, equitable and lifelong art education experiences. Making peace with AI, through dialogues, roaming with it and engaging with its complexities builds responsible AI literacy that can help AI be integrated into art education aligned to contemporary and future life.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145246857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Analysis of Immersive Environments: A Methodology for Museum Education","authors":"Emma June Huebner","doi":"10.1111/jade.12613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12613","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, museum professionals have adopted various technological resources that have expanded museums into new virtual spaces. These virtual spaces do much more than simply communicate information to visitors and attract them to visit the museum physically: they offer new teaching and learning contexts. The emergence of these new learning contexts calls for the development of new methodologies to analyse them. This article focuses on developing a coding rubric to analyse complex interactive, immersive museum environments systematically. To achieve this, I adapted and tested Gillian Rose's (2022, <jats:italic>Visual methodologies: an introduction to researching with visual materials</jats:italic>) critical analysis approach to visual content was adapted and tested to explore the museum educational possibilities of virtual reality, using immersive environments by the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert Museum as case studies. I developed a comprehensive coding grid, adjusting Rose's (2022, <jats:italic>Visual methodologies: an introduction to researching with visual materials</jats:italic>) principles and modalities to the unique characteristics of virtual reality experiences as identified by Fegely and Cherner (2021, <jats:italic>Journal of Information Technology Education: Research</jats:italic>) and Lee and Cherner (2015, <jats:italic>Journal of Information Technology Education: Research</jats:italic>). The findings reveal numerous opportunities to leverage virtual reality's distinct features, depending on the subject matter, the virtual teaching environment, and the pedagogical strategies employed. The research and analytical grid promise to make a valuable contribution to the fields of museum education and museology because they provide a structured means to scrutinise and evaluate the educational possibilities inherent in virtual reality experiences while also deepening our understanding of the intricate dynamics between users and museum artworks as well as objects within immersive environments.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Hybrid Studio‐Based Learning Environments: A Sociomaterial Exploration of Design Education","authors":"Karolien Perold‐Bull","doi":"10.1111/jade.12612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12612","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how hybrid learning (HL) can be successfully integrated into the practice‐based visual communication design (VCD) curriculum at Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa, to enhance future teaching, learning, and curriculum renewal. This was approached from a sociomaterial perspective. Data were collected and analysed iteratively amongst students and lecturers involved in the curriculum. Data stemming from multiple sources were integrated in visual format, thus allowing a consolidated experience of HL to emerge. This experience was translated into a first‐person narrative to enable the affective forces constituting it to become felt. It was found that to effectively integrate HL into the studio‐based VCD curriculum, the studio must become an environment that fully supports the needs of dispersed, transdigital subjects; learning content and structures need to be simplified and remain consistent to facilitate the regulation of students' emotions; and the format/s of learning content must support process‐driven, embodied learning experiences.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"195 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145088955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STREAM: Integrating Storytelling and Robotics into STEAM Education","authors":"Kyungeun Lim, Soon Goo Lee","doi":"10.1111/jade.12611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12611","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the development of AI and robotics and their increased utilisation in our daily lives, this study explores the integration of robotics with art education, particularly focusing on expanding its application to include reading/writing into STEAM education. As higher educators in the same institution from visual art and science disciplines, the authors developed interdisciplinary lessons for K‐16 students, including pre‐service art teachers. Specifically, the study focused on the use of robotics, especially Sphero BOLT robots, to explore new artistic and educational implementations using a qualitative case study approach. By exploring how the pre‐service teachers used these robots, this study suggests how robotics can be utilised to enhance artistic expression, display, appreciation, storytelling and holistic interdisciplinary learning experiences. By extending the current STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) frameworks, this study also informs the innovative concept of STREAM (STEAM + Reading/Writing).","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploiting Information Technology to Enhance Effectiveness in Elementary School Art Education","authors":"Huimin Che, Wei Zheng","doi":"10.1111/jade.12609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12609","url":null,"abstract":"In elementary schools, art education is considered to be a fundamental component of the curriculum. It has become increasingly important in the modern world to tackle the issue of enhancing the effectiveness of art education, for which the intersection of art and information technology has been viewed as one of the most promising ways. In this paper, we use the project‐based STEAM learning methodology to study how music and fine arts courses can be cross‐integrated with information technology courses. An effective method, named intelligent fusion, is proposed by combining information technology with art education synergistically. The proposed intelligent fusion method is validated by involving a total of 920 10‐ to 11‐year‐old students as participants in our study, and finally favourable learning and teaching outcomes are obtained. By offering these creative and comprehensive artistic practice activities, students are exposed to knowledge from a variety of disciplines, which enhances their aesthetic perception and achieves the interdisciplinary educational goals. Moreover, our developed methods can help researchers and teachers integrate domain knowledge through information technology and fully exploit the comprehensive potential of students when learning various subjects.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144910572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Beyond the Interior: Developing Interiority in Early Stages of Interior Design Education Through a ‘Home’ Design","authors":"Lerzan Aras","doi":"10.1111/jade.12610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12610","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between interior space and self is particularly intricate and encompasses a perspective that extends beyond the physical. In interior design education, conveying this concept, which can be defined as interiority, can enable students to examine the design of a space from a new perspective; and a house design can provide a suitable start for the development of this perception. Although the house is often perceived as a simple structure, it is actually an extremely complex system, and the interior of the house contains information that can provide insights into the whole of an individual's interiority. This study presents a three‐stage design model (physical/performative/intuitive) which is created to teach first year students to see beyond the interior space through a home design. The aim is to move students' perception of space beyond the physical and develop an intuition that can provide a deeper understanding and empathy in their education.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144905771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}