Teaching Design Interdisciplinarly

This research addresses the specific innovate quality of design thinking, stretches the identification of the ‘designerly way of thinking’ implements this into a project-base course and discusses how C-K theory helps to develop techniques and facilitation to better harness the potential of innovation across disciplines, and practically addresses these design characters and processes that are intertwined in a reflective practicum. We investigated that synthesizing methods can successfully harness both creative and rational activities in our context, with proper facilitating engineering students, and solve their problems in an innovative way. The discussion also had the chance to demonstrate that the potential contributions of incorporating humanities and interdisciplinary design research within both engineering and design schools are considerable.