Harnessing the proliferation of social media in spatial design development - finding integrity and experience over trend and visual replication
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2019
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Tooley, J.
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Lester, E.
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Education, Design and Practice – Understanding skills in a Complex World, 2019 / Lester, E. (ed./s), pp.202-212
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AMPS Proceedings Series 17.2. Education, Design and Practice – Understanding skills in a Complex World (17 Jun 2019 - 19 Jun 2019 : US)
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The global techno-cultural phenomenon of social media influences the design industries’ end-products and user experiences as well as the actual processes used by designers to generate these. This paper discusses how a unit called Spatial Experience and Aesthetics, as part of Curtin University’s Interior Architecture program, uses social media as a tool to inform spatial design development — harnessing, rather than resisting its pervasiveness in a bid to find unifying concepts to inform unique and appropriate design propositions. This effort is an attempt to equip students with the skills to avoid surface-level replication in design and engaging in ‘trend’, which are arguably inherent side-effects of being informed by social media. Students may contribute this new skill to existing design teams. This paper covers in more detail, the pervasiveness of social media in the contemporary design studio and lists the potential pit-falls student designers might encounter when using social media. The paper elaborates on the Spatial Experience and Aesthetics unit structure and explains how it equips students with skills to harness social media as an informative design tool. Unit outcomes, in the form of student work and critical reflection are discussed.
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