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How do you teach Manufacturing Processes?

How do you teach Manufacturing Processes?

The answer to the question is as usual, choose the path: Content ORMethod I have taught this course in the CONTENT way. Yes. Through case studies, through visits to factories, and as a program of activation about how things are made. But this is not about the CONTENT way. On this occasion we did something different. To know more click on the link and listen to the podcast. The 1929 Austin…

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How do you design a course?

How do you design a course?

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Is it okay to ostracize the low achievers?

reate wonderful human beings?

In a recent podcast episode I mention this phrase. That I said this in 2003. When I landed in Australia. One meaning of this phrase takes you down the path that you should not treat poorly performing students any different from the way you treat the high achievers. Okay we leave that for now. That is the world we have. That is the world we have accepted. But I do not accept the world we have.…

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The Learner Centered Project 2003-2007

This was not a job. This was a project. To update, upgrade and to make education align with the contemporary thinking in pedagogy, learning and education.

In my first four years in Australia I worked as the Program Director of an undergraduate Industrial Design Program. This was not a job. This was a project. To update, upgrade and to make education align with the contemporary thinking in pedagogy, learning and education. The project probably never ended. It is still to be seen. I am still doing this project. The names have changed. It has…

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New Pedagogies

Yesterday as I walked, I listened to an episode on the Coconut Thinking podcast. There was a lot to like in that episode. Then I had to research the speaker, the place where he worked, who was Michaal Fullan, what is all this? How do they know so much? Why are they so optimistic? Yes – you could be blown away too What we do We work alongside educators to change the role of teachers to that of…

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Design is what designers do #1

Design is what designers do #1

Hey girl, When I graduated from Mechanical Engineering I opted to stay in India. Most of the others in my batch? Headed off to the US. In India I then did postgrad at NID. I elected to stay in India and ended up in Delhi, starting my own studio. My whole cohort/ group of friends? They headed off to the US. 5 years after graduation, just like Vineet and Abhishek, I too did a 6 month stint at…

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Useful Leads

(Featured image: Supercar Blondie, LINK) So you are a graduate Industrial designer? Okay graduating industrial designer. How good is your knowledge of contemporary industrial design? Job? Studios? Genres? Countries and contexts of work? Would you travel to work elsewhere? How do you get started? I have nudged you to look at 4 aspects of contemporary Industrial Design. So good for you to check…

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ieid: that is industrial design

ieid: that is industrial design

Is this the design process? Yes. As a construction based upon reflection on previous project? Yes. Immerse The investigation stage of the project is in reality an immersion – it is a phase of design projects when the student is completely enclosed by information and listens to the ‘experts’ or the ‘affected’ and is the novice. It involves a series of activities that generate resources for the…

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