dc.contributor.author | Reitan, Janne Beate | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-26T13:52:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-26T13:52:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Reitan, J.B. (2014). Learning by watching Vernacular Iñupiaq-Inuit design learning as inspiration for design education. Techne series : Research in sloyd education and crafts science. A, 21(2), 1-20 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1238-9501 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | FRIDAID 1211899 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/2411 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this
article
, I explore a single case of vernacular clothing design
—
the practice
and learning
of
design for contemporary Iñupiaq
-
Inuit clothing made by women
from
Kaktovik
in
N
orth
ern
Alaska
—
and I hope to contribute to a better understanding of design practice and learning in general. Design
research has many unexplored areas
,
and one of these omissions is vernacular design
,
or
folk design.
In my opinion, professional and academic design may well have something to learn from vernacular
design, although this research is about vernacular learning
and
about what, why and how the
‘making
’
discipline of clothing design
is learned
. Th
i
s
study was based on observations
of and
interviews with seamstresses and
research
-
by
-
design
, which includes
authorial participation in
designing and sewing in
adherence to
Iñupiaq tradition
.
A
ll
of
this
was recorded on digital video film.
Th
e
investigatio
n of
Iñupiaq
-
Inuit
clothing design indicates that watching
wa
s the most common way
of learning
, a
phenomenon
I have chosen to call
learning
-
by
-
watching
,
a
concept
that
can be seen as a
development of both Schön and Wenger’s theories of learning
,
as influen
ced by
John
Dewey’s
theory
of
learning
-
by
-
doing
. This study will be discussed
in connection with
design education
,
from
kindergarten to professional studies in higher education
,
in the
forth
coming research project
,
Design
Literacy
, t
he purpose
of which is
to develop theory
to
improve design education in both compulsory
and academic design education. Consequently, to improve design education
in general
,
a
th
o
rough
focus on learning
-
by
-
watching in communities of practice would make
for
more
reflective
practit
ioners and
more
sustainable
design
practices
in the long run. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Techne series : Research in sloyd education and crafts science. A;21(2) | en_US |
dc.subject | Vernacular design | en_US |
dc.subject | Clothing design | en_US |
dc.subject | Design thinking | en_US |
dc.subject | Design education | en_US |
dc.title | Learning by watching Vernacular Iñupiaq-Inuit design learning as inspiration for design education | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.version | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/techneA/article/view/1263/ | |