Sensory Affect, Learning Spaces, and Design Education: Strategies for Reflective Teaching and Student Engagement in Higher Education

Through the lens of sensory affect, this book offers a new way of thinking about day-to-day teaching and student engagement within learning spaces in design education.

The book examines the definitions, concepts, ideas, and overlaps of a repertoire of learning spaces prevalent in higher education and addresses the pedagogical gap that exists between broader learning structures and spaces, and the requirements of specialist design education. Recognising that mainstream teaching environments impact upon design studio learning and student engagement, the book positions creative learning spaces at the heart of practice-based learning. It defines the underlying pedagogical philosophy of a creative learning space in design education and reports on how practical strategies incorporating sensory affect may be implemented by educators to foster better student engagement in these spaces within higher education.

Bringing much-needed attention to specialist design teaching and learning spaces in higher education, this book will be of interest to educators, researchers, and post-graduate students immersed in design education, pedagogy, and learning spaces more broadly.

Lorraine Marshalsey is currently Senior Lecturer and the Curriculum Lead for Design and Technologies in Education (Education Futures) at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. She originally trained in design and applied arts, and then moved into teaching design and design research in a variety of further and higher education universities in the UK and Australia. She completed her PhD in Design (Education) at Glasgow School of Art in 2018. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a member of NSEAD (The National Society for Education in Art and Design). Lorraine is an Editorial Board Member of the Q1 journal, the International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJade). She is also a founding Convenor and Member of the Studio Matters design education research community, which hosts members from the US, Sweden, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands, among others. She has published widely on the studio as a site for innovative learning, as a learning space (physical and online), and on sensory affect in educational environments.