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Guiding Interdisciplinary Design Collaborations in the Studio Classroom

By Shea Tillman and John Chad Duncan.

Published by Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal

Collaboration has become the new language for creating meaningful, well-conceived design ideas. Interdisciplinary collaborations have also become a key component in gaining external funding for educational design projects. If however, educational design collaborations are to be successful, they require more than one team handing off completed responsibilities to another team. How can faculty effectively manage these often disruptive efforts to maximize creative outcomes? What are the challenges that occur when students from dissimilar disciplines are paired together in a classroom and challenged with a design problem?

This paper presentation will discuss and illustrate lessons learned through the teaching of a true interdisciplinary design studio. This studio course involved merging an industrial design studio course with a rehabilitation class to collaboratively develop design concepts for improving the quality of their lives for client consumers with disabilities.

Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp.271-284. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 2.042MB).

Shea Tillman

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design, Auburn University, Alabama, USA

Dr. John Chad Duncan

Assistant Professor, Rehabilitation Services, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, Maine, USA