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Challenging ICT Applications in Architecture, Engineering, and Industrial Design Education

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.

ABSTRACT The design studio is the prototype of design education, particularly
for architects but more and more for engineers too – though engineers prefer the
word “lab” to “studio.” Although the design studio is known today mainly through
the “reflection in action” theory of Donald Schön (1984, 1988), this manner of
education first developed at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the seventeenth
century for the promotion of neoclassical aesthetic values, and it has continued
ever ...