september 22 · 2025
14:00 – 16:00 · parallel session 1
DESIGN STUDIO PEDAGOGY #1 – Chair: Beatrice Lerma
ROOM: Jose Grácio Auditorium (Mechanical Engineering Department – Building 22)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
8 | Unfolding interactions in design studio courses: Visual tools for design critiques in terms of content and style | Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez | Full Paper |
14 | Let’s Figure This Out Together: Building Social Support Through Cross-Pollinative Design Studio Pedagogy | Zhengping Liow, Ye Zhang | Full Paper |
15 | Tutor guidance in design studio: study of effects and challenges | Mithra Zahedi, Virginie Tessier | Full Paper |
156 | Practicing Constructive Feedback during Design Projects | Saadeddine Shehab, Amanda Henderson, Daniel Lewis | Full Paper |
135 | Studio Properties: A Contribution to Knowledge in Design Education | Derek Jones, Elizabeth Boling, James Benedict Brown, James Corazzo, Colin Gray, Nicole Lotz | Full Paper |
36 | How playing or making card games can support Universal Design teaching | Richard Herriott, Asa River Jackson | Full Paper |
DESIGN THINKING & CREATIVITY – Chair: Angela Bains
ROOM: Aquarium Room (Civil Engineering Department – Building 28)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
56 | The Impact of Creativity and Goal Orientation on Design Learning | Gizem Yazıcı, Fehmi Doğan | Full Paper |
12 | Design Thinking (A Visual Critique) | Ricardo Sosa | Visual Submission |
37 | Design Thinking Pedagogy in a Culture of Information Immediacy | Ahu Yolac, Philip Plowright | Full Paper |
62 | The impact of walking without digital distractions on design creativity | Joao Ferreira | Full Paper |
130 | A Post-anthropocentric Creative Mindset through Design Education | Eva Monestier, Marita Canina | Full Paper |
96 | Neodesign: The Loss of Craft, Imagination and a Playful Attitude | Rodrigo Hernández Ramírez, Yaron Meron | Full Paper |
DESIGN EDUCATION & AI #1 – Chair: Nina Costa
ROOM: Geosciences Auditorium (Geosciences Department – Building 16)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
16 | Move Slow or Fail Fast? Enhancing STEM Design Education with AI-Assisted Iterative Workflows | Yingying Sun | Full Paper |
28 | Artificial Intelligence in future art and design education | Tore Andre Ringvold, Ingri Strand, Peter Haakonsen, Kari Saasen Strand | Full Paper |
46 | Positioning Roles of AI Representations in Creative Conversation | Lisha Ren, Zhiwen Deng | Full Paper |
136 | Can AI assess design students’ projects? Discussing the future of assessments with a proof of concept | Ali Cankat Alan, Koray Gelmez | Full Paper |
78 | Student-led Explorations in Speculative Design Using Generative AI | Haider Akmal, Eduardo Benítez Sandoval, June Kim | Full Paper |
74 | Shifting AI Narrative. From Dystopian to Solarpunk Futures in Design Education | Anca Serbanescu, Kees Schuller | Case Study |
SUSTAINABILITY AND CIRCULARITY #1 – Chair: Paulo Silva
ROOM: João Branco Auditorium (Art and Communicaton Department – Building 21)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
154 | Ecological Sustainability and Exhibition Design Education | Jennie Schaeffer | Letter |
19 | The IDEA Design Scaffold: Empowering Novice Designers with Systemic and Sustainable Design Education | Ioannis Xenakis, Despoina Grigoreli | Full Paper |
26 | From Awareness to Action: Embracing Sustainability Topics – An Interview Study about Sustainability Topics with Graphic Design Stakeholders | Fengjin Yu | Full Paper |
31 | Spatial-Data Sensemaking: Learning Architecture in the Climate Emergency | Martha Bohm | Full Paper |
33 | Reaffirming Learning – a micro examination of teaching interventions and their connectedness | Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan | Case Study |
106 | Designing playful education: a game changing matrix to rule ‘em all | Letizia Vaccarella, Giulia Teverini, Annamaria Recupero | Full Paper |
16:30 – 18:30 · parallel session 2
INTERTWINING ACTORS AND COMMUNITIES #1 – Chair: Luís Ferreira
ROOM: Jose Grácio Auditorium (Mechanical Engineering Department – Building 22)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
27 | Evaluating Community-Academic Partnerships in Design Projects | Cambey Mikush, Cristina Leos, Jamie Nicole Elsner, Liz Chen | Statement of Pedagogy |
41 | A New Career Path for Designers: Crowdwork and Designers’ Motivations to Engage in this Employment Model | İrem Dilek Alptekin, Pınar Kaygan | Full Paper |
63 | Design Literacy in Undergraduate Education for Non-Design Fields | Derya Yorgancıoğlu, Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Yeşim Çapa Aydın | Full Paper |
110 | Design, Technology, and Cities: Integrating design education in an undergraduate degree in Urban Technology | Matthew Wizinsky, Bryan Boyer | Statement of Pedagogy |
131 | From Interviews with Practitioners to Distributed Design Knowledge | Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Roman Sellner Novotný | Statement of Pedagogy |
150 | Designing Scaffolding Cards for Design Challenges in K-12 Settings | Saad Shehab, Jane Pak, Roya Attarian, Michelle Heredia | Full Paper |
DESIGN STUDIO PEDAGOGY #2 – Chair: Virginie Tessier
ROOM: Aquarium Room (Civil Engineering Department – Building 28)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
113 | The fuzzy edges of online design studios | Nicole Lotz, Derek Jones, Tina Deiml-Seibt | Conversation |
141 | Intertwining The Materiality and Criticism In Critical Making Studio | Özgün Dilek | Full Paper |
160 | Education meta-ideologies applied to the studio model | Paul Hardman | Full Paper |
75 | Intertwining Briefs: Reflecting on the Craft of Design Studio Briefs | Ricardo Sosa, Enya Moore, Jody Watts, Nina Hansopaheluwakan, Rodrigo Hernandez Ramirez, Yaron Meron | Full Paper |
79 | Disconnected Measures: Exploring the Relationship Between Critical Thinking Tests and Design Studio Outcomes | Philip Plowright, Ahu Yolac | Full Paper |
148 | Everyday interactions with the Tecnosphere: a critical educational path | Annapaola Vacanti, Alessandro Lodovini | Full Paper |
DESIGN EDUCATION FUTURE & FUTURE-ORIENTED EDUCATION – Chair: João Batalheiro Ferreira
ROOM: Geosciences Auditorium (Geosciences Department – Building 16)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
70 | Design Futures Pedagogy: Does the type of exercise, year of study, order, and number of exercises matter? | Peter Scupelli, Paulo Carvalho | Full Paper |
128 | The Apparition – Teacher-Generated Drawing Strategy | Rui Costa | Full Paper |
98 | Applying Intersectional theory in design as a practice for raised awareness in design education | Federica Caruso, Venanzio Arquilla | Full Paper |
173 | Futuring Design Education Better: Practice, Experience, and Context | Andrew Whitcomb | Full Paper |
118 | Visioning Transformative Futures in Advertising | Jay Irizawa, Sugandha Gaur, Angela Bains, Lesley-Ann Noel | Conversation |
186 | Exploring the Role of Design to support Interdisciplinary Research in Higher Education Institutions | Rute Harada, Nina Costa, Johannes Goessling | Full Paper |
VALUES OF DESIGN INTERTWINIA #1 – Chair: Jennie Schaeffer
ROOM: João Branco Auditorium (Art and Communicaton Department – Building 21)
ID | TITLE | Authors | Type |
23 | Sociology through/with design: Embedding Social Justice into Design Pedagogy | Anqi Rong, Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward | Full Paper |
24 | From Pockets to Peace: A Letter for Designers | Michelle Helman | Letter |
64 | Transforming Education: Add-On Workshops as a Tool to Integrate Ethical Responsibility in Design Education | Elisabeth Friesinger, Stephan Krusche | Case Study |
167 | Teaching the ethical responsibility as a foundation for designers | Juan de la Rosa | Case Study |
122 | Moral Aesthetic Action: A Framework for Ethically Driven Intervention | Simon Lindblom | Full Paper |
83 | Decolonizing the Engineering Designer | Matt Borland, Leslia Wexler, Kate Sellen | Conversation |
This work was supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. by project reference UIDB/04057/2020 and DOI identifier <https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04057/2020>.