Media Matters: Nudging Digital Media Into A Manual Design Process (And Vice Versa) (1996)
article⁄Media Matters: Nudging Digital Media Into A Manual Design Process (And Vice Versa) (1996)
abstract⁄This paper reports on a media class offered during the 199596 academic year at the University of Oregon. This course, a renovation of an existing ‘manual’ media offering targeted intermediate Ievel graduate and undergraduate students who, while relatively experienced design students, were relatively inexperienced users of digital media for design. This course maintained a pedagogical emphasis on design process, a point of view that media are powerful influences on design thinking, and an attitude toward experimentation and reflection in matters of media and design process. Among the experiments explored were fitting together digital with manual media, and using digital media to collaborate in an electronic workspace. The experience offers opportunity to consider how digital media might be more widely integrated with what remains a predominantly ‘manual’ design process and media context for many architecture schools and practices.
