Description
Are Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) helpful or detrimental to the process of design? According to Aristotle, the imagination is a mental power that assists logical, sound judgments. Design, therefore, incorporates both reason and imagination.
Challenging ICT Applications in Architecture, Engineering, and Industrial Design Education posits imagination as the central feature of design. It questions the common assumption that ICTs are not only useful but also valuable for the creation of the visual designs that reside at the core of architecture, engineering design, and industrial design. For readers who believe this assumption is right, this book offers an alternative perspective.
Reviews and Testimonials
How does the constantly developing array of information and communication technologies fit into the life of education in design and in the practice of architects and engineers, asks architecture educator Wang. He provides answers, or at least thoughts, both for designers and for educators. His topics include articulating design education, pedagogy and curriculum in architecture and engineering, reviewing engineering and introducing industrial designers, complexity theory revisited, and design and virtual reality
– Book News Inc. Portland, OR
Author's/Editor's Biography
James Wang
James “TJ” Wang has done extensive research on the development of design learning environments that are sensitive to culturally ethical issues and the development of context-recognition pedagogies and design strategies for ubiquitous computing environments in the traditional design studio. His current research concerns inquiry-oriented design education with an emphasis on how technology can support simultaneous teacher and student learning. Dr. Wang is directing students in postgraduate work at universities around the world. He is the author of a number of books and articles on architecture and education issues. Professor Wang’s recent publications include a chapter on social identity and professional architects in the book Social Identity (2012) and a chapter on the culture of military dependents’ villages in Taiwan in the book Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space (2011).