Experiencing and analysing embodied design thinking in CSCL

Monday 17 June 2019

CSCL 2019, Lyon, France

This pre-conference workshop aims to engage researchers, designers, and practitioners in a collaborative design thinking process and then to analyse the workshop activities and solutions using the 4Es (Enactive, Extended, Embodied, and Embedded) dimensions of embodied learning.

If you were working with others at a distance on a design problem, what would you need in your digital workspace? Taking this complex challenge as our starting point, we invite you to join us in working through each phase of a design thinking process, learning more about design thinking at each stage of the workshop, and reflecting on how our learning is embodied in artefacts and other representations. These data will be made available for collaborative analysis during and after the workshop, so that workshop participants and presenters can develop research questions of shared interest and jointly author a publication.

We welcome participants from diverse backgrounds to bring a rich variety of theoretical standpoints, workplace experiences and contexts to the “empathy” phase of the design process. If you are interested in design thinking, participatory design, creativity, wicked problems, or the affordances of digitally mediated learning environments for innovative learning strategies, this is the workshop for you.

Organizers:

Penny Wheeler (Macquarie University, penelope.wheeler@hdr.mq.edu.au or tweet to @pennyjw)

Stefan Trausan-Matu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, stefan.trausan@cs.pub.ro)

Amanda Barany (Drexel University, amb595@drexel.edu)

Jonan Phillip Donaldson (Drexel University, jpd322@drexel.edu)

Workshop schedule:

9:00 to 10:30 am: Framing the problem: design thinking at a distance

Break

11:00 to 12:30 pm: Interrogating, improving and implementing designs for digital design thinking

Lunch

2:00 to 3:30 pm: Showcasing prototypes for digital design thinking

Break

4:00 to 5:30 pm: Analysing the learning embodied in the workshop’s creative outputs

For more information and a more detailed schedule of activities, see the detailed schedule.

To register for this workshop, send an email to the organisers at designthinkingdigital@gmail.com with your name and affiliation, and one area of interest related to this workshop. Then go to the Workshop Registration form you got via email after you registered for the conference.