Studio Properties: A Field Guide to Design Education

Derek Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Design at The Open University, UK, part of the OU Design Group, and the Convenor of the DRS Education SIG. His research interests are: the pedagogy of design and creativity, embodied cognition in design, and theories of design knowledge. Editor and author of BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research and EqualBITE: Gender Equality in Higher Education.

Elizabeth Boling is a professor of instructional design at Indiana University, USA, whose background in design practice includes illustration, interface and management of interactive materials design for Apple Computer and Macmillan Publishing. She is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Designs for Learning, and studies design pedagogy and practice in the context of instructional design. Editor and author of Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases.

James Benedict Brown is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Umeå School of Architecture. He is the co-editor of A Gendered Profession (RIBA Publishing, 2016) and Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2023) and the author of Mediated Space (RIBA Publishing, 2018). He has a particular interest in critical pedagogy and the role of design-build and live projects in architectural education.

James Corazzo is an award-winning graphic design educator and co-founder of the UK Subject Association Graphic Design Educators' Network. As Teaching and Learning Lead at Sheffield Hallam, UK, he works with academics across his institution to playfully and reflexively examine creative education. He researches and publishes on the social, cultural and material assemblages of the studio and design education.

Colin M. Gray is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, and directs a program in Human-Computer Interaction Design. Their research focuses on the ways in which the pedagogy and practice of designers informs the development of design ability, particularly in relation to ethics, design knowledge, and learning experience. They have previously published co-edited books on studio education and instructional design. Editor and author of Studio Teaching in Higher Education: Selected Design Cases.