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PAPERS: Central but Decentered: Repositioning the Practitioner in Design Research Involving Practice Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-2-edinburgh Session Chair: Luis Vega, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Session Chair: Julia Valle Noronha, Aalto University | |
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Redefining design practice as a sensory and decentred experience 1: Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia; 2: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; 3: Ontario College of Art & Design University, Canada This paper examines how sensory focused practice can decentre the role of the design educator-researcher within design education, reframing learning as a relational and embodied form of practice-led design research. Drawing on a sensory workshop with foundation-year design students in Lahore, Pakistan, it explores how listening, movement, and tactile engagement foster reflective awareness and co-creation. Informed by theories of embodied cognition and relational pedagogy, the study considers how agency in learning environments extends beyond the educator to include materials, atmospheres, and collective experiences. Sensory practice is presented not as an adjunct to design but as integral to it, cultivating attentiveness, empathy, and care. Through this lens, the paper argues that design education can nurture designers who learn and make with others, redefining practice as a shared, decentred process of knowing and becoming. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.466
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