Carousel: a study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impacts on delivering ‘one week’ exchange experiences (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stoltenberg, E., Firth, R., & Taks, M. (2017, September). Carousel: a study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impacts on delivering ‘one week’ exchange experiences. Paper presented at 19th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE 2017), Oslo, Norway

To prepare students for their future careers in a globalizing society, several large-scale higher education student and staff exchange programmes focus on international collaboration. The organisation and duration of such programmes can often be a ba... Read More about Carousel: a study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impacts on delivering ‘one week’ exchange experiences.

Do not press undo (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R. (2016, November). Do not press undo. Paper presented at 2016 IJADE conference Drawing

Do not press undo

I believe an authentic sketchbook shows ‘the scars of ones thinking’. Not all pages need to present fully resolved solutions. I am interested in what happens to the documentation of one’s thought process when we shift from thi... Read More about Do not press undo.

Pencils Don't Crash. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I., & Firth, R. (2006, September). Pencils Don't Crash. Presented at 4th Engineering and Product Design Education Conference

While the title might suggest otherwise, this is not a polemic against CAD. The aim of this paper is to examine how the emphasis on drawing in design education has changed and the future implications in a digital world.

Drawing is unquestionably a... Read More about Pencils Don't Crash..