The Perceived Influence of Learning Environment on Design Student Imagination
Keywords:
design education; design process; imagination stimulation;learning environmentAbstract
This study was aimed to analyze the perceived influence of
learning environment on design student imagination in different design
phases. Participants (n = 1,004) involved in this study were design
school students from ten universities across Taiwan. Influences in the
learning environment were deconstructed into four factors: physical
component, organizational measure, social climate, and human
aggregate. Our results indicated that social climate was claimed to be the
greatest influential factor, followed by organizational measure, human
aggregate, and finally physical component. These various effects were seen
in the design process, especially in the phase of problem definition and
design analysis, and with a lesser effect in the phase of detailed design
and communication.
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