Creative Thinkers, Innovative Outcomes

This highly interactive IDSA K-12 Design Education Initiative workshop will take place at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel simultaneously with the IDSA 2012 International Conference.

Thursday, August 16
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
Otis Room, Lobby Level

As part of IDSA's on-going efforts to connect design to the K-12 education system, we have just successfully concluded the 2012 IDSA Design Learning Challenge. All participants in this year’s challenge did an excellent job. A few students surpassed all expectations, and we wish to acknowledge their achievements as well as thank jury members, facilitators and sponsors.

Moderator:  Alice Jandrisits of Red Fusion Studios

Panelists:  Tania Aldous of World Kitchen, Doris Wells-Papanek of Tailored Learning Tools, Ann-Marie Conrado of Notre Dame, Pamela Nyberg of Thrive, and Marianne Grisdale of TEAMS Design / Section Chair of Housewares

DORIS WELLS-PAPANEK, IDSA
Prinicpal
Tailored Learning Tools

Doris Wells-Papanek, IDSA collaborates with educators, practitioners and learners to design and research learning experiences as principal of Tailored Learning Tools. She has coached educators and learners of all ages, authored papers and presented at conferences. She has co-authored and published five research-based and learning-centered books. She also collaborates with companies and learning organizations such as Apple and Xerox, as well as Waukegan Public Schools and University of Illinois. She holds a master’s in curriculum and instruction design from National-Louis University and a bachelor’s degree in product and environmental design from the Kansas City Art Institute & School of Design.

Track:
Sustainable + Social Design
Session Title:
Fast Forward: Future Design Evolution

Moderator: Alice Jandrisits of Red Fusion Studios
Panelists:  Ann-Marie Conrado of Notre Dame, Tania Aldous of World Kitchen, Marianne Grisdale of TEAMS Design / Chair of IDSA Housewares Section, Doris Wells-Papanek of Tailored Learning Tools, and Pamela Nyberg of Thrive

A highlight of March 2012 International Home + Housewares Show Innovation Theater presentations was IDSA Housewares Section’s panel discussion: The Real Story Behind the Buying Power of Women: What Women as Designers Discovered. Organized by IDSA’s Housewares Section Chair, Marianne Grisdale, and moderated by RedFusion Studios Director of Research + Design, Alice Jandrisits, the panel consisted of a diverse, experienced group of participants:

The primary purpose of the IDSA Design Learning Challenge 2012 is to expose children to design thinking and create an active awareness of the industrial design discipline as a career option before students leave high school. College design students all over the United States will be challenged to co-create innovative and participatory design learning experiences with art students in grades 6-12, anchored in design thinking and learning skills.

Doris Wells-Papanek, IDSA
December 12, 2011

Jan. 1, 2012, will serve as the official kick-off to the second Design Learning Challenge (DLC) a part of IDSA’s efforts to promote and develop an understanding of Industrial Design at the K-12 level and this time around, we are going national! College design students all over the United States will be challenged to co-create innovative and participatory design learning experiences anchored in design thinking and learning skills with students in grades 6-12.

IDSA was asked by a group of 8th graders to help them with a career's project they where working on, and we felt the questions they asked would be interesting for many kids considering a career in industrial design. A group of four designers in very different positions were brought to gether to answer the questions.

Clive Roux, CEO

May 2011

IDSA is not just about business and profit.