Abstract
The second year Interior Design Students worked in collaboration with the Fashion School to design a workplace and gallery for a celebrated fashion designer invited to take up residence in the school. The project used a series of studies as heuristic devices to ignite conceptualization of space for the fashion designer to work and display. A heuristic is any principle, procedure, or other device that contributes to reduction in the search for a satisfactory solution. The students first researched the biography of the fashion designer, the influences on their work, their brand and their approach to design. Then, they had to select three pieces of the fashion designer’s work and analyze it with diagrams and graphic overlays that seek to uncover their design compositional logic that form the basis of how a designer approaches a design problem. Using this the student designed a 21’ X 7’ surface which may be continuous, folded, gradated, parametric, or modular. The students used media like paper folding, laser cutting, 3-D printing to explore this surface. The final study or device to explore and generate ideas and search for new and more ideas for the conceptualization of gallery and display space was the creation of 3-dimensional collage of space(s). Hence, these periods of heuristic reasoning began with the narrowing device of surface derived from the logics of fashion designer’s creation and deploying this surface into space through a playful, active exploration and discovery of alternative possibilities for design solutions.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Heuristic Thinking, Studio Pedagogy, Generative Process
