@inproceedings{01HSXD61J7XGJY87KYBHVT1AEX,
  abstract     = {{The role of design is evolving rapidly, requiring new skills and roles for future designers to adapt
to the new era of design that began with the increasing globalisation, complexity, and uncertainty of the
problems. One of the emerging roles of designers is the facilitator role, which allows designers to bring
people with lived experience together, and create a common ground for them to communicate and express
their needs easily to better understand those needs and wishes. In addition, one of the key skills future
designers would need to be armed with is critical thinking, which is essential for future designers to tackle
complex challenges and create innovative, sustainable products and/or services. Design education needs to
prioritize the development of critical thinking skills, making them explicit in teaching methods and shifting
away from traditional approaches (e.g., only teaching technical knowledge, teacher-centred education) to
support students in applying critical thinking effectively. Further exploration is needed to understand what
critical thinking for designers entails. This paper focuses on a workshop carried out with design students,
designers, and design educators (n = 33) to understand their perception of the facilitator role and critical
thinking skills. The findings of this study yielded information regarding the challenges of incorporating these
two concepts into design education such as the difficulty in facilitating a co-design process and dealing with
complexity. As it is needed to detect these challenges first in order to provide solutions, this study may
contribute to preparing and educating future designers for the new era.}},
  author       = {{Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Melis and Brosens, Lore and Parmentier, Davy and Hasirci, Deniz and Emmanouil, Marina}},
  booktitle    = {{Learn X Design 2023 : Futures of Design Education, Proceedings}},
  editor       = {{Jones, Derek and Borekci, Naz and Clemente, Violeta and Corazzo, James and Lotz, Nicole and Merete Nielsen, Liv and Noel, Lesley-Ann}},
  keywords     = {{design education,designer as facilitator,critical thinking skills,future designers,challenges in design education}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{London, UK}},
  pages        = {{13}},
  publisher    = {{Design Research Society}},
  title        = {{Educating designers for the new era : current challenges}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2024.024}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}

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