Transdisciplinary design sensibilities, skills, dispositions: What might these look like? How might these be developed? And what benefit might they bring to designers and non designers?

1. Transdisciplinary design sensibilities, skills, dispositions: What
might these look like? How might these be developed? And
what benefit might they bring to designers and non
designers?

2. https://www.designsingapore.org/resources/design-2025.html

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https://www.designsingapore.org/resources/design-education-review-committee-report.html
Design Specialists
Educated and trained
in design, for example,
as product designers
or architects.
Design Integrators
Designers who have
skills that go beyond
the technical design
domains
Design Multipliers
Advocates of design who
are specialists in a non-
design domain. They can
apply design in their domain
of work.
Designpreneurs
Owners or business
developers of design
products or brands who
balance design sensibilities
with strong business
acumen.

4. “They can apply design
in their domain of work”

5. “They can apply design
in their domain of work”
Design Educators: an opportunity to
build on what we have learned while
teaching design to designers to think
and talk about how we may teach
aspects of design to ‘non-designers’

6. What are the ‘design sensibilities’ to infuse
at all levels of education from pre-school to
professional development?

7. What are the sensibilities, skills & dispositions
that are core in design, yet translatable to
other areas?
Sensibilities embedded in design education
including those taught tacitly or experientially.
Framing, abductive logic, iteration, materiality,
idea evaluation, effectuation, analogical
reasoning, co-creation, creative collaboration…

8. And how may such design sensibilities
be translated or transferred to other
domains and professions?

9. In my experience teaching design to business and engineering
professionals, when things work well, they are able to grasp
an idea and then teach us back the ways in which they apply
these sensibilities in their areas of specialisation

10. Creativity is not my cup of tea – I am not creative.
This was what I thought before I went for the course.
For me a creative person needs to know how to draw,
and I am terribly bad at it. However, this course on
Creativity & Design made me realize that science can
bring in the highest level of creativity. So the right
question is not – Are you creative - It is ‘How are you
creative’?
After attending the course, I tried applying a few
things in my professional life that I learnt in here to
bring in some difference in our day to day working
process. To be true we never thought there was a
problem until I brainstormed with my team and
realized there were so many things that could be
improved which can help make the process seamless.
When we were asked by Prof. Ricardo to apply some
Creativity & Design in our professional life, I was
totally at a loss not understanding how do I do that.
My job scope of data mining includes writing SAS or
SQL codes to derive meaningful insights but how do I
apply creativity in this? After an extensive
brainstorming session, we took a step back and re-
looked into the entire process of how the cycle
worked and what changes can be made there. We
realized that although we are getting the reports
from the bank, we are losing out on a major part
which is understanding the customer’s purchase
behavior and his life cycle…
We all were ecstatic as we never expected that
something like this could happen in a span of 1-
month… I shared it with my manager the next day
and it was great to see him happy. It brought some
light outside the tunnel.
-- Saoni Bir, 2016
In my experience teaching design to business and engineering
professionals, when things work well, they are able to grasp
an idea and then teach us back the ways in which they apply
these sensibilities in their areas of specialisation

11. In my experience teaching design to business and engineering
professionals, when things work well, they are able to grasp
an idea and then teach us back the ways in which they apply
these sensibilities in their areas of specialisation

12. In my experience teaching design to business and engineering
professionals, when things work well, they are able to grasp
an idea and then teach us back the ways in which they apply
these sensibilities in their areas of specialisation