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Research outcomes which attempt to
showcase the benefits that design thinking
can have in the development of our youth
for future challenges
Showcase the value of design
professionals to effect change within
communities
Fosters strong and ongoing links with
secondary schools and regional
communities
Advocate good design as an integral part
of Qld life by improving creativity & design
in education in regional Qld Secondary
Schools
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BACKGROUND
Rural and regional communities - places of
great innovation, expertise and resilience.
But, in times of economic downturn,
education plays a globally important role
in the sustainability of these individuals &
communities. (Reid1989)
National Declaration on Educational Goals
for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008, p.13)
Young people must develop skills in
problem solving, creative and innovative
thinking, communication and teamwork.
Regional students must experience a nonlinear design process to help shape the
way they look at the world around them
Reid, N. (1989). The Rural Economy and Rural Youth:
Changes for the Future.
Research in Rural Education, 6 (2), 17-23.
Exposure to different career pathways,
design professionals and University lecturers
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BACKGROUND
3 day interactive workshop simulating a
design studio
20 x Year 10 - 12 Secondary School
students
Facilitated by QUT School of Design
Lecturers and 2 school teachers
Run in conjunction with DIA unleashed –
queensland design on tour 2010 Exhibition
at local gallery
Chinchilla State High School | Mount Isa, Spinifex State College | Quilpie State College
Emerald State High School | Gladstone State High School | Bundaberg State High School
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Opportunity to explore, analyse and
reimagine local town through a series of
scaffolded problem solving activities around
the theme of ‘place’
Allows students to gain hands on
experience designing
graphics/fashion/products/landscape
architecture/ architecture/interiors and
make informed decisions about tertiary
study
By learning about the design process,
students develop skills in problem
solving, creative and innovative
thinking, communication & teamwork
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• place-based learning provides
meaningful contextual knowledge for
regional students
• showcases value of design and
interdisciplinary practice between
academics, practicing designers,
teachers and students
• students experience previously
unexplored and sometimes inaccessible
career & learning pathways
• potential to partner with future travelling
design exhibitions
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• exhibition heightens student confidence
and showcases the value of design
thinking to local government and
community
• opportunity to involve local industries
and business
• linkages created between secondary &
tertiary education sectors
• vehicle for in-service teacher training
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Student, Emerald State High School
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Student, Emerald State High School
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Student, Spinifex State College , Mt Isa
Student, Spinifex State College , Mt Isa
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Student, Chinchilla State High School
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Student,
Student,
Chinchilla
Chinchilla
State
State
High
High
School
School
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• site specific place-based
design education program
• collaboration of art teachers,
art students, local government
planners, artists and design
professionals from various
disciplines
• empowers young people to
think about the planning and
design of democratic and
sustainable public spaces and
how they relate to their city
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Living City 1999-2010
• creative ideas feed back into the
consultation process and contribute to
active developments
• spurns ongoing careers or tertiary
study in the built environment
• experience previously unexplored/
inaccessible career & learning
pathways
• potential for model to be replicated
with regional councils & stakeholders
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Living City 1999-2010
• student work displayed in exhibition,
on the Living City website and in
documents compiled for local
authorities and ‘client’ stakeholders
• potential for collaboration with
regional & international schools
through on-line classrooms or design
events
• potential for workshops to be held
with schools, design professionals,
artists and community stakeholders
through on-line events
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Living City 1999-2010
Living City Website (http://www.livingcity.net.au/index.html)
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Living City 1999-2010
• 50 students/10 teachers/10 designers/
10 illustrators working in teams to consider
issues facing the Asia Pacific Region
• uncovering optimistic ideas using the design
process/design thinking skills and inspiration
from local, national and international guest
speakers
• Brisbane and regional participants with an
interest in design drawn from Living City and
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Generation 2010
• generation of leadership within
schools for design-led education
and creative thinking
• professional development
opportunity for teachers to work in
conjunction with design
practitioners
• video taped design presentation
of ideas at culmination of workshop
to be made available online
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“This workshop has allowed us to collaborate with other
students/teachers/designers to come up with concepts and ideas that have
potential to affect the future. Hopefully this workshop, and the ones to come
will impact the way in which our generation thinks, and our awareness of
issues that may previously been ignored.”
“I learned a lot about how designing and design thinking can help a community
or country etc. Also got to work with a team to overcome a problem, using
design thinking. It was a new, interesting experience.”
“Today has been a experience in itself, from the inspirational speeches to the
hands on design aspect. The speeches really made me see design in a whole
new light, which helped me understand our task on many different levels. This
experience will keep me seeing different aspects in all different areas of my life,
in the present & the future.”
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“Today I have learnt to think in other and different ways to what I may have
originally thought and concluded. Bunker also made me realise that you don’t
need to be literate to make a difference in your community. I really enjoyed
working with my awesome group today and found Bunker’s speech very
inspirational.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed today’s workshop. Meeting some of the world’s leading
designers was a real eye opener. Their stories filled me with inspiration and
eagerness to change our world and the way we live in society. Also, I found
meeting the students from other schools fascinating and I enjoyed working in a
team with them and facing the problem given to us, together. Thank you for
the wonderful opportunity ”
“Today I made new friends and got to work in a group to come up with good
ideas. It really helped doing group work and listening to each other’s ideas
then putting them all together to create our design. It was a great experience,
I’d love to do it again! ”
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• 50 secondary teachers/10
designers /10 illustrators
investigate what design thinking
looks like in the class room
• interactive design charette
based on the themes of the
Generations Workshop
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Learning by Design 2010
• professional development
opportunity for teachers to
consider the role of design in
shaping the future of young
lives
• consider what design in the
classroom means when
design is interpreted as the
making of just, sustainable
and creative futures, not just
the making and consuming
of more products
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“Just a line to say what a fab time I had on that Saturday.
It certainly was the best PD I have ever undertaken. (True)
I would certainly like to see something like this again and would love to be
apart of any thing in the future. Great work by you and your team.”
Cassandra Thorne Head of Art, Design and Information Technology
St Luke's Anglican School, Bundaberg
“Just a quick thanks for the opportunity to participate in the Design Thinking
workshop on Thursday and Saturday. I loved it, the speakers were great and
the whole experience was awesome. I really enjoyed interacting with the
students and the teachers, gave me a fresh perspective on my own thinking
process. I know its 3 years off but count me in for Unlimited 2!
Meredith Dan - Teacher Architecture and CAD Studies, Southbank Institute of
Technology
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“Thanks so much for including me in the day. I think what you are doing with
students is very important, and I encourage you to continue providing these
opportunities for them, wherever possible. Great experience. Thanks once
again.”
Hael Kobayashi
“Thank you for the opportunity to experience the teacher's design
workshop. It was a truly valuable learning experience that has ignited a
plethora of ideas.”
Mel Thomson, Visual Arts Teacher Cleveland District State High School
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‘Youth Sourcing’ Workshops
Smartartz
• the process of ideation through
creative workshops with young
people
• design led, real world and briefbased, non technical creativity focus
and audience-centred
• working with clients who have a
youth focus
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Rebuilding For Resilience
Think Rink Workshops
Fairweather Creative Culture
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Rebuilding For Resilience
Platform for hosting educative and instructional
content on-line
Talking Design
• Nielson Design Lectures, UQ & QUT lecture series,
Unlimited, Public Libraries Design Symposia, TedX
Teaching Design
• design-focused lesson plans developed in
partnership with Education Queensland, CooperHewitt Design Museum
Documenting Creative and Critical Thinking
• Now+Then – QACI, Gold Coast Art Gallery,
Bemowa SHS
• Living City SEQ Program - Barcaldine, Tully or
Mission Beach
• Generation workshops - DIA/QUT/QATA/ Unlimited
• QUT/DIA/Smartartz
• QUT/DIA/QMI ‘goDesign’ Workshops
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A b o u t
Design Reference
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C o n t a c t
Design Archive
A rich collection of books, journals,
magazines, maps, posters, film,
photographs, drawings and manuscripts
for design research, design students
and others wishing to explore historic
or contemporary design
Growing archive which actively collects
digital and original materials relating to
historical and contemporary design
practices in
Resources
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Drawings (sketches, renderings,
working drawings)
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Maps, plans, patterns, patents
S u b s c r i b e
Design Minds
Talking Design
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Nielson Design Lectures, UQ &
`QUT lecture series, Unlimited,
Public Libraries Design Symposia,
TedX
SLQ catalogues
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Photographs (vintage & new)
Teaching Design
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E-subscriptions
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Manuscripts
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Links to other libraries’ design
collections
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Bibliographies
Professional papers (job files, log
books, travel notebooks,
correspondence)
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Digital images & AV materials
Book Reviews
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What’s New
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Invitation to judge/request
Focus areas
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Public realm, Products for better
living, Communication, Thinking,
Fashion
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Published research
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Design profession awards
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Design competitions
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Digital record of design exhibitions
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Queensland Public Art Register
MOBILE APP
R S S
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Designing Better Libraries
Platform for hosting educative and
instructional content on-line
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Design-focused lesson plans
developed in partnership with
Education Queensland,
Documenting Creative and Critical
Thinking
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Now+Then – QACI, , Bemowa SHS
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– SEQ, Barcaldine, Tully or
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Generation workshops DIA/QUT/Unlimited
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DIA/Wotif – Smartarts
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DIA/QMI ‘Go Design’ project
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Design Pulse
Advocacy and advice to support
development of libraries that meet evolving
user needs and expectations, plus planning,
design and management of continuous
enhancement of the State Library building
Array of design focused research, learning and
participation activities
Guidelines
Design Action
Including research papers, publications, symposia for
contemporary practice and innovation in design of
libraries
Program of activities by SLQ and partners
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Designers-in-residence
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Events – regular, signature
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Conferences, seminars, speaker series
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Exhibitions & demonstrations
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Competitions
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Film program
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Markets
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The Library Book & MOBILE APP
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Resources and links for good library design
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Guidelines for designing wifi environments
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Public Library Standards
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Public Libraries Design symposia
Design Calendar
Local, state, national, international design activity
Design On-Site
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State Library Capital Improvement Program
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10 year capital asset conservation,
management and development plan
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3 year rolling plan for Capital Asset
Improvements
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Asia Pacific Design Lounge Phase 2, in
conjunction with Auditorium 2 upgrade and
provision of facilities to service catering for
events in Level 2 venue hire spaces
Lounge open hours, map, images
Design Windows: Display galleries showcasing
small-scale yet high-level exhibitions of new work by
individual designers or studios
Journalism
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D-Blog – gang of reporters
Blueprint – annual papernet of Asia Pacific Design
Library highlights
Collection & sets of images of APDL activities on
FLICKR
Signpost
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Design blogs and websites
Partner organisations
Design research programs
Design education
Design industry
Other libraries
Bookshops
• aggregation and syndication of blogs,
podcasts, media and case studies; creation
of online presence for all Queensland Design
Education programs
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• need to continue modelling of pedagogy that embraces "future" oriented
thinking, creative teams, collaborative work process, immersion, interdisciplinary thinking, and that is "rigorous, connected, coherent, flexible"
(QSA review of Senior Schooling, 2005, Professors David Hogan, Alan Luke, John Dewar.)
• these existing design-based programs have pioneered new focus,
practice and process with students and teachers in a variety of contexts
and need to be recorded and evaluated for continuous improvement
• these workshops are laboratories to test and refine pedagogy and the
skills and ways of working emerging from them are readily transferred to
teachers in diverse T&L contexts so have implications across many subject
areas
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• need to develop processes that will allow for critical thinking and problem-
solving to tackle future challenges beyond the current economics-focused
paradigm
eg. climate change, resource depletion, wealth-distribution, etc
• business may reveal opportunities and revel in change and the structures
that currently maintain the status quo also may develop different
thinking/future thinking and create new social and economic opportunity
• potential for business and education to learn from community links. The
development of collaborative and inclusive programs may lead to outcomes
and paradigm-shifts brought about by greater participation in design
processes
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Action Research
ARC Linkage Project
• grow and unify existing design education
programs under the framework of a
Research Project
• capitalise on benefits of existing largely
volunteered activity to date
• provide a mechanism for measurement
and evaluation of key KPIs to inform
future design policy/strategy
• show state leadership in the area of
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Action Research
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• inform skills training and
secondary/tertiary education sectors
• improve community and industry
engagement in Brisbane and regional
communities around design
• improve career pathways and highlight
opportunities for students and business in
regional areas
• allow model to be scaled up to include
other programs and invite other partners
as required
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• Seek funding from industry partners and
sponsors to run each program within
annual Queensland Design Education
Framework for minimum of 3 years
including:
goDesign x 6 (regional locations)
Living City x 1(Brisbane location)
Generation x 2 (The Edge, SLQ)
Learning by Design x 1 (The Edge, SLQ)
Rebuilding with Resilience (TBC)
Website presence for all programs
through SLQ Design Minds Online Project
and Qld Government DET Learning Place
eLearning Program
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FRAMEWORK DIAGRAM
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SECTOR IMPACT
1: Strengthen the Qld Economy
Strategy: Increasing the capacity of Queensland designers to meet future
demand
Will provide a training/workforce strategy to align with the Qld Skills Plan to
“build the capacity of the design sector” (and education & training sector)
“to better align skills supply, workforce development and business strategy
to meet competitive needs” and “enhance collaboration between industry,
government and the education and training sectors”.
2: Foster a Design Culture
Strategy: Increasing understanding, awareness and recognition of design
and its value to our economy, culture, society and environment.
Will “capitalise on existing opportunities and mechanisms to promote
design awareness across the state”.
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3: Build Design Knowledge and Learning
Strategy: Improve creativity and design in education and learning at all
levels.
Will “reinforce design and creativity in the existing Queensland
education curriculum” by providing “ an annual design immersion
program for Queensland Secondary Schools”
Strategy: Improve the availability of design research
Will develop a new partnership with Queensland University of
Technology’s Built Environment & Engineering, Creative Industries and
Education Faculties to “further options for research and benchmarking” to
evaluate and integrate learnings from an integrated student/teacher model
Will measure and inform the Queensland Government Departments of
Education & Training, The Arts, and Employment & Economic
Development, about the potential for design thinking capacity to impact on
the state’s future economy, culture, society and environment.
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4: Support Public Sector Innovation
Strategy: Increase understanding and awareness of the value of design to
the Queensland Government (and local government)
Will “facilitate partnerships between all levels of government, businesses,
designers and local communities to explore design’s potential to address
community-based social, environmental and business issues” including
state-wide rebuilding programs addressing 2011 Disaster Recovery.
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Research Proposal to be developed
around Queensland Design
Education Program Framework and
submitted in 2nd round 2011
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Action Research
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• Support to seek appropriate
partners to participate in ARC
Linkage Project – contribution of
minimum total $50,000.00/year for 3
years
• Support to source funding from
partners and sponsors with a view to
sustain a 3 year annual Queensland
Design Education Program
• Online support to build Program
through State Library of Queensland
Design Minds project
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Action Research
ARC Linkage Project
• In principal support from
Queensland Design Council for the
proposal
• Comments and feedback welcome!
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“The world needs designers.
Those that can think and imagine
and create new and innovative
ways to live and work. We need to
build a bank of creative capital that
will enable us to meet current an
future challenges. Design
education can be an impetus for a
culture of creative excellence.”
Michele Azzopardi, Director Design Victoria
Designing our Future: A Report on Tertiary
Design Education in Victoria (2009), Design
Victoria
http://www.designvic.com/knowledge/publications/designingourf
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“The Ambition of Queensland as a Smart State will only be realised if
we take decisive steps to improve the quality of the teaching profession
and the value that is placed on education by all sections of the
community, as well as to develop modern curricula with the balance
and content of learning that best equips students for their future and
empowers their choices in a world where knowledge and its creative
applications are the most important currency.”
(Conclusion of Working Group report to Smart State Council on Education and Skills for the
Smart State, November 2006)
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