3D printing is fun and can provide many learning opportunties from problem solving to basic mechanical design. Also, it can be use to helps people in need of prosthetic hands by providing them a cost effective (free) options.
I learned about Enabling the Future organization who help organize and distribute 3D printed Prosthetic hand to people in need. I look forward using my 3D printing and time to be part of this meaningful mission. Check it out! http://enablingthefuture.org/ I just received a signed copy of a brand new Python programming textbook written by Irv Kalb, an experienced instructor and programmer on Python programming language. His new book title is "Learn to Program with Python." If you are interested in learning Python, check out Irv's book!
Irv and I worked together at the Art Institute of California - Silicon Valley campus. Irv is a great guy, wonderful instructor who always willing to help out students whatever and whenever he can. I am very fortunate have an opportunity to work alongside with Irv. I love the character design, illustration, and the story development of 垃圾人 Rubbish Race. The illustration book focused on one major environmental issue we are facing today, solid waste. Through the perspective of a fictitious mutant "consumer goods" beings, Rubbish race, the author help readers to look at our/human's possible future, extinction from the earth due to over consumption. Very unique character design based on recognizable Hong Kong artifacts, which give this illustration a unique Hong Kong characteristic!!
I hope that this book can help start conversation regarding human responsibilities, and make choices not negatively impact our future generation. Our next generation should have the right to enjoy what we enjoy today. "Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. The Brundtland definition. “Several 200-year-old economic and social experiments are up for question, not a 4-billion-year-old planet. The question is not whether we can manage the biosphere -- we can't. The question is whether we can manage ourselves, our numbers, greed, arrogance, and waste, and whether we can bring forth a new world of ideas that are compatible with the planet, so the planet will allow them to persist.” Article, “The Planet is Not in Danger, Our Ideas Are “, Donella H. Meadows was an adjunct professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College. IDEC Exchange Article - Social-Action-Driven Designers: The Millennial Generation (page 19 -20)8/1/2016 Social Action Driven Designers – The Millennium Generation – interviewed by Luke Kwan
Student Interview: Allison Hook, and Keren Shipovski, fourth-year interior design student at The Art Institute of California – Silicon Valley Starting out as a class project to design a transitional homeless center, Keren Shipovski (KS), Allison Hook (AH), and Sarah Castro, fourth-year interior design students of The Art Institute of California - Silicon Valley, decided to donate their time and design skills for a life functioning non-profit organization in San Francisco that is making a positive impact to the society. Tell us about how both of you went from designing a corporate design studio project, to providing design services to a non-profit organization.
How does providing design services for a good cause affect your view of being an interior designer? How does this reinforce your desire to be an interior designer?
Do you recommend other interior design students to use their design skills for public service and why?
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(Please guess the topic of this article. Hint: It is about gaming.) Luke Kwan – Academic Director of Design - IDEC Emerging Talent Editor – The Art Institute of California – Silicon Valley Applying design theory, producing technically-sound documentation, and understanding interior design as a business are important elements of the interior design education. However, students in this millennial generation tend to have difficulty engaging non-design studio classes that cover these subjects. To be frank, students aspiring to be interior designers are not 50 interested in sitting through hours of slide lectures, writing long art history essays, and creating details and construction documents for fictitious projects. They are creative individuals who would rather spend countless hours sketching, designing spaces, and picking finishes and furniture. It is understandable why they dread attending these types of 100 classes. As educators, our challenge is to find ways to connect with students so that they can learn from non-design studio classes in a fun and engaging way. Gamifying classroom learning can be a viable solution. Gamification is defined by Professor Kevin Werbach (Werbach & Hunter, 2012) as “the use 150 of game elements and game-design techniques in non-game contexts”. Game is a great tool to bridge the engagement gap and has been implemented successfully in many different sectors, including higher education. According to Alan Gershenfled’s (2013) article, “Game-Based Learning: Hype vs. Reality", game-based learning have many inherent characteristics that can improve learning outcome. I have 200 experienced the benefit of game-based learning in my non-design studio classes. From a Jeopardy-like final exam in the Professional Practice class, to a poker-inspired game for the Design Basic 3D class, I recognized a change in student attitude instantaneously as soon as they are in game mode. Game-based learning provides 250 students with personalized and peer-to-peer learning. It does not change the content of the syllabus itself, but rather, its content delivery and experience for the course. Most importantly, it helps bring the fun back into the classroom. We have a great responsibility to engage students in their learning so that 300 they can become competent interior designers. Gamifying non-design studio classes can be one of the ingredients for student success. Let the game begin. If you figure out the topic of this article, please email me at [email protected] so that I can congratulate you for figuring out the answer and for 350 finishing reading this article. References
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